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Washington, Friday, M ay 14, 1937
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Forest Service.
R u l e s a n d R e g u l a t i o n s t o G o v e r n E x e r c is e o p T im b e r R ig h t s R e ser ve d i n C o n v e y a n c e s t o t h e U n it e d S ta t es
In conform ity with the provisions of Section 9 of the Act approved March 1, 1911 36 Stat. 961, as amended, I, Henry A. W allace, Secretary o f Agriculture, do hereby estab lish the follow ing regulations, to govern the cutting and removal of timber and tim ber products from lands pur chased by the United States under the authority of said Act of March l, 1911, as amended, in cases where the right to cut and remove such timber and timber products is to be reserved by the vendor by stipulation in the deed o f con veyance to the United States,.
Whoever begins such operations must, on demand, ex hibit to the Forest Officer in charge satisfactory evidence of authority from the grantor so to do, and must comply with the follow ing requirements:
1. In the cutting and rem oval of tim ber and timber prod ucts and in the location or construction of mills, logging roads, railroads, chutes, landings, carnet or other improve ments, no unnecessary damage shall be done to any small growth or to trees le ft standing. No monument or witness trees shall be cut or destroyed.
2. A ll trees, timber or tim ber products cut, damaged or destroyed by the operator of species or sizes not specifically reserved shall be paid fo r at double the usual rates charged in the locality fo r sales of sim ilar National Forest timber and timber products.
3. All slash resulting from the exercise of the reserved rights shall be disposed of as directed by the Forest Supervisor.
4. Location of buildings, camps, other structures, and of roads providing ingress or egress to or from the reserved timber, shall be approved by the Forest Supervisor prior to the beginning of construction. A ll buildings, camps, equip ment, and other structures shall be removed from the land within one year from date of completion or abandonment of the operation. Otherwise such buildings, camps, equip ment, and other structures shall become the property of the United States.
5. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt the operator or the timber operations from any require ments of the laws of the State in which situated; nor from compliance with or conform ity to any requirement of any law or regulation which later may be enacted or promulgated, and which otherwise would be applicable.
6. W hile operations are in progress, the operators, con tractors, sub-contractors, and employees of contractors and sub-contractors at work on the National Forest, shall use due diligence in the prevention and suppression of fire, and shall be available fo r service in the ex tin g u ish m e n t and suppres sion of all fires within two miles of said operation. Provided that if such fire does not originate through any negligence
on the part of the operators, contractors, sub-contractors, or their employees and does not threaten their structures, im
provements or property, that they shall be paid fo r their services at the current rate of pay of fire fighters employed by the United States.
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Only one cutting shallbe made on any portion of the area on which timber is reserved. Provided, that the Forest Supervisor may permit the cutting of special products, or products the cutting of which is seasonal, on any portion of the area in advance o f the cutting of the chief products of the reserved timber. Each reservation of tim ber shall in
clude a specific period of tim e within which m aterial may be removed after the cutting fo r the chief products on any portion of the area, and any m aterial remaining on a cut over area shall, on the expiration of that period, become the property of the United States.
A ll regulations hitherto issued by the Secretary of A gri culture to govern the exercise of timber rights reserved in conveyances to the United States are hereby superseded as to timber rights hereafter reserved.
In testimony thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at th C ity o f W ashington tlMg 12th day of May, 1937.

seal H. A. W a l l a c e , Secrmary of Agriculture.
P . R. Doc. 37-1369; Piled, May 13,1937; 12:38 p. m.

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A p p r o v a l o f S p e c ia l I n t e r e s t R a t e s f o r F ir s t M or tg ag e L o a n s o n F a r m s i n t h e T h ir d F ed er al L a n d B a n k D is t r ic t E n g a g e d P r i m a r i l y i n t h e P r o d u c t io n o f N a v a l S to r e s M a y 13, 1937.
Whereas, it is provided by paragraph Second of Section 12 o f the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended, U. S. C., T itle 12, Section 771, that except w ith the approval of the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, the interest rate on first mortgage loans made by any Federal land bank through national farm loan associations shall not exceed by more than 1 per centum per annum the interest rate in the last series of farm loan bonds issued by said bank; and Whereas, it appears to the satisfaction of the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration that loans upon farm lands in the Third Federal Land Bank D istrict employed in the production o f naval stores as defined by Section 2 o f the Naval Stores A ct U. S. C., T itle 7, Section 92 are sub ject to special hazards and that it is necessary that the security fo r such loans be inspected from tim e to tim e by qualified.inspectors; and Whereas, The Federal Land Bank of Columbia has re quested approval of a rate of interest on such loans through
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