16 USC 607a

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[CITE: 16USC607a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
            CHAPTER 4--PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS
 
Sec. 607a. Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, 
        residents, miners, etc.
        
    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.

(May 14, 1898, ch. 299, Sec. 11, 30 Stat. 414; June 15, 1938, ch. 437, 
52 Stat. 699.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of the last sentence of section 11 of act May 
14, 1898. The remainder of section 11 of act May 14, 1898, 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 June 15, 1938, inserted last clause relating to use of 
timber by churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions.