Pamphlets on Forestry, Volume 14

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1917

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Page 13 - Agency, and consists simply of salaried representatives employed jointly by these mills to sell a part of their product. At the beginning of each year the constituent mills agree upon the per centage of thencut which will be handled through the agency, and the current business is distributed as nearly as possible to conform with this agreed division. Necessary readjustments are made at the end of the year on the basis of actual sales. Costs are defrayed on a percentage of the amounts sold for the...
Page 9 - Forest, would succeed to the rights granted by section 2 of the act of May 14, 1880 (21 Stat. 140), as amended by the act of July 26, 1892 (27 Stat.
Page 5 - Reserve shall be subject to the quartz or lode mining laws of the United States, and the laws and regulations permitting the location, appropriation, and use of the waters within the said forest reserves for mining, irrigation, and other purposes: and no titles acquired to agricultural lands in said Black Hills Forest Reserve under this Act shall vest in the patentee any riparian rights to any stream or streams of flowing water within said reserve; and that such limitation of title shall be expressed...
Page 5 - ... competent to enter lands under the homestead laws, are hereby granted an additional homestead right of entry for the purposes of this Act only, and such settlers must otherwise comply with the provisions of the homestead law, and in addition thereto must pay two dollars and fifty cents per acre for lands entered under the provisions of this section, such payment to be made at the time of making final proof on such lands.
Page 4 - ... file the lists and descriptions with the Secretary of the Interior, with the request that the said lands be opened to entry in accordance with the provisions of the homestead laws and this act. Upon the filing of any such list or description the Secretary of the Interior shall declare the said lands open to homestead settlement and entry in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in area and not exceeding one mile in length...
Page 4 - ... a plat and field notes of the claim or claims in common, made by, or under the direction of the United States Surveyor-General, showing accurately the boundaries of the claim or claims, which shall be distinctly marked by monuments on the ground...
Page 5 - ... shall be distinctly marked by monuments on the ground, and by posting a copy of such plat, together with a notice of the time and place of offering proof, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat during the period prescribed by law for the publication of his notice of intention to offer proof, and that a...
Page 4 - ... give them access on demand to all books, papers, accounts and records pertaining to the hospital and shall furnish copies, abstracts and reports whenever required by them.
Page 2 - ... the Secretary of Agriculture for the construction and maintenance of roads and trails within the national forests in the States from which such proceeds are derived (16 USC 501).

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