Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations
§ 607a. Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc.
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior may permit under regulations to be prescribed by him the use of timber found upon the public land in Alaska by actual settlers, residents, individual miners, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and for domestic purposes, as may actually be needed by such persons for such purposes and may permit such use by churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions in Alaska for firewood, fencing, buildings, and for domestic purposes.
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.
An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two’
Pub. L. 55–299 § 11 · 30 Stat. 409
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 607a
May 14, 1898, ch. 299, § 11, 30 Stat. 414
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 14, 1898, ch. 299, § 11, 30 Stat. 414Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 11. That the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may cause to be appraised the timber or any part thereof upon public lands in the District of Alaska, and may from time to time sell so much thereof as he may deem proper for not less than the appraised value thereof, in such quantities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe, to be used in the District of Alaska, —limit. but not for export therefrom. And such sales shall at all times be limited to actual necessities for consumption in the District from year to year, and payments for such timber shall be made, to the receiver of public moneys of the local land office of the land district in which said timber may be sold, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the moneys arising therefrom shall be accounted for by the receiver of such land office to the Commissioner of the General Land Office in a separate account, and shall be covered —use of. into the Treasury. The Secretary of the Interior’ may permit, under regulations to be prescribed by him, the use of timber found upon the public lands in said District of Alaska by actual settlers, residents, individual miners, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and for domestic purposes, as may actually be needed by such persons for such purposes.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is comprised of the last sentence of section 11 of act . The remainder of section 11 of act , is classified to section 615a of this title.
Section was formerly classified to section 423 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Amendments
1938—Act , inserted last clause relating to use of timber by churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions.
Credits
1898–1938 · 2 acts
- 1898May 14, 1898, ch. 299, § 11, 30 Stat. 414
- 1938June 15, 1938, ch. 437, 52 Stat. 699.
Show as published
(May 14, 1898, ch. 299, § 11, 30 Stat. 414; June 15, 1938, ch. 437, 52 Stat. 699.)