16 U.S.C. § 477 — Use of timber and stone by settlers

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The Secretary of Agriculture can let people use timber and stone found in national forests for free. This applies to real settlers, miners, residents, and mineral prospectors. They can use it for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and other home needs, following the Secretary's rules. The timber must be used inside the same state or territory as the forest.

The Secretary of Agriculture may allow bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and mineral prospectors to use timber and stone found in national forests, free of charge, under rules the Secretary sets. They may use it for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and other needs around the home, as much as those purposes require. The timber used this way must stay within the state or territory where the national forest is located.

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The Secretary of Agriculture may permit, under regulations to be prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon national forests, free of charge, by bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and other domestic purposes, as may be needed by such persons for such purposes; such timber to be used within the State or Territory, respectively, where such national forests may be located.

Source credit: (June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 35; Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 1, 33 Stat. 628.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1897Enacted · Act of June 4, 1897, ch. 2 · 30 Stat. 35
1905Amended · Act of Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288 · 33 Stat. 628

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