Chapter 143. To create the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 143.— An Act To create the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest, and for other purposes. February 18, 1909.[[S. 1574](/us/bill/70/s/1574).][[Public. No. 237.](/us/pl/70/237)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of Agriculture,Calaveras Bigtree National Forest. Cal.Creation of authorized. to secure and protect for all time the big trees scientifically known as Sequoia washingtoniana, is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to obtain for the United States the complete title to any or all of the following-described lands in the State of California:
In townshipDescription. four north, range fifteen east. Mount Diablo meridian, the northeast quarter of section one; in township four north, range sixteen east. Mount Diablo meridian, the north half of section six; in township five north, range fifteen east, Mount Diablo meridian, the southwest quarter of section fourteen, south half of section fifteen, north half of section twenty-two, northwest quarter of section twenty-three, and southeast quarter of section thirty-six, and in township five north, range sixteen east.
Mount Diablo meridian, the west half of section twenty-eight, the east half and southwest quarter of section twenty- nine, the southeast quarter of section thirty, all of sections thirty-one, 627 thirty-two, and the northwest quarter of section thirty-three. And such area or areas, as fast as complete title is acquired, shall be permanently held by the United States and shall be known as the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest and shall be administered, and protected,Name. by the Secretary of Agriculture from the funds appropriated for the administration of National Forest hind to prolong the existence, growth, and promote the reproduction of said big trees: *Provided*,*Provisos.*Title.
That the owners of land acquired hereunder shall convey to the United States full title to any of the above-described areas approved for said national forest by the Secretary of Agriculture, the completeness of such title to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior in each case, and shall be reimbursed therefor only in anyReimbursement plan. or all of three ways: They may be given the right to file with the Secretary of the Interior, within sixty days after any such conveyance, selections for an equal area of surveyed, unreserved, unappropriated, nonmineral public lands which, if found subject to such lieu selection, and of a value substantially equal to that of the amounts conveyed, may be patented to said owners in lieu of the land conveyed, and if any selection is rejected other selections may be made under conditions applicable to the one rejected; or the Secretary of Agriculture may grant to any such conveying owner the right to cut from national forest land an amount of timber and wood, substantially equal to the amount of timber and wood on the land acquired by the United States under the provisions of this Act: *Provided*, That nothing containedNo appropriation. in this Act shall warrant an appropriation from the Treasury to carry out the terms of this Act.
Approved, February 18, 1909.