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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 54. Sale of matured, dead, or down timber

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior may sell and permit the removal of such matured or dead or down timber as he may deem necessary or advisable for the protection or improvement of the park, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 62–74 § 4 · 37 Stat. 80

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 54

    (Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 4, 37 Stat. 81.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 4, 37 Stat. 81.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior may also sell and permit Sale of matured, etc., timber in park. the removal of such matured or dead or down timber as he may deem necessary or advisable for the protection or improvement of the park, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 4, 37 Stat. 81.)

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