Chapter 165. To authorize the sale of burnt timber on the public domain
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CHAP. 165.— An Act To authorize the sale of burnt timber on the public domain.March 4, 1913.[[H. R. 24266](/us/bill/62/hr/24266).][[Public, No. 450](/us/pl/62/450).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Sale of timber killed. etc., by forest tires. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules as he may prescribe, to sell and dispose of to the highest bidder at public auction, or through sealed bids, the timber on any lands of the United States, outside 1016the boundaries of national forests, including those embraced in unperfected claims under any of the public land laws, also upon the ceded Indian lands, that may have been killed or seriously and permanently damaged by forest fires prior to the passage of tins Act, the proceeds of all such sales to be covered into the Treasury of the United States: *Provided*, That the damaged timber upon any*Proviso*.Damaged timber on existing claims. lands embraced in an existing claim shall be disposed of only upon the application or with the written consent of such claimant, and theDeposit of proceeds. money received from the sale of damaged timber on any such lands shall be kept in a special fund to await the final determination of such claim.
Sec. 2. That upon the certification of the Secretary of the InteriorDisposal of fund.If claim finally approved. that any such claim has been finally approved and patented the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to such claimant, his heirs or legal representatives, the money received from the sale of the damaged timber upon his land, after deducting therefrom the expenses of the sale; and upon the certificationIf rejected or canceled. of the Secretary of the Interior that any such claim has been finally rejected and canceled the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the money derived from the safe of the damaged timber upon the lands embraced in such claim to the general fund in the Treasury derived from the sale of public lands, unless by legislation the lands from which the timber had been removed had been theretofore appropriated to the benefit of an Indian tribe or otherwise, in which event the net proceeds derived from the sale of the timber shall be transferred to the fund of such tribe or otherwise credited or distributed as by law provided.
Approved, March 4, 1913.