Volume 41
Public Law 66–22
Authorizing the cutting of timber by corporations organized in one State and conducting operations in another.
Approved January 11, 1921
Statutory text
An Act
Authorizing the cutting of timber by corporations organized in one State and conducting operations in another.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada, and the Territories to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and domestic purposes,” approved June 3, 1878, chapter 150, page 88, volume 20, United States Statutes at Large, and section 8 of an Act entitled “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1891, as amended by an Act approved
Vol. 26, p. 1093, amended.
March 3, 1891, chapter 559, page 1093, volume 26, United States Statutes at Large, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, be, and the same are hereby, extended so that it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior to grant permits to corporations incorporated under a Federal law of the United States or incorporated under the laws of a State or Territory of the United States, other than the State in which the privilege is requested, said permits to confer the same rights and benefits upon such corporations as are conferred by the aforesaid Acts upon corporations incorporated in the State in which the privilege is to be exercised: Provided, That all such corporations
Proviso.
Condition.
shall first have complied with the laws of that State so as to entitle
Railroads not affected.
them to do business therein; but nothing herein shall operate to enlarge the rights of any railway company to cut timber on the public domain.
Received by the President December 30, 1920.