Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 479. Sites for schools and churches
Statutory text
The settlers residing within the exterior boundaries of national forests, or in the vicinity thereof, may maintain schools and churches within such national forest, and for that purpose may occupy any part of the said national forest, not exceeding two acres for each schoolhouse and one acre for a church.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 55–2 § 1 · 30 Stat. 11
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 479
(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 36.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 36.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
“National forests” substituted in text for “forest reservations”, and “national forest” substituted for “reservation” and “forest reservation” on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.
Credits
(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 36.)