The Use Book Author:United States Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: USES. JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The Secretary of Agriculture has entire jurisdiction over National Forests, except in matters of surveyin... more »g and title. He can not convey any kind or degree of title to the land itself. He has authority to grant permits for the occupancy of lands and the use of resources of National Forests. All applications for permits should be filed with the supervisors. They may be granted under the provisions of the act of June 4, 1897, which authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate the occupancy and use of National Forests (Appendix, p: 200), or under the act of February 15, 1901 (Appendix, p. 185), which authorizes him to permit the use of rights of way in National Forests. JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. The Secretary of the Interior has entire jurisdiction in matters affecting the passage of title to lands in National Forests. Therefore he alone has authority to approve maps of location filed under the several laws which grant rights of way amounting to easements affecting the title to the lands. Permits. REG. 6. Permits are necessary for all occupancy, uses, operations, or enterprises of any kind within National Forests, whether begun before or after the National Forest was established, except: (a) Upon patented lands; (b)upon valid claims for purposes necessary to their actual development and consistent with their character; (c) upon rights of way amounting to easements for the purposes named in the grants; (d) prospecting for minerals, transient camping, hunting, fishing, and surveying for lawful projects, KEG. 7. Permits for the use of the National Forests,, unless otherwise specifically fixed by regulation, may be granted by the Forester for any term consistent with National Forest inte...« less