Transfer Act of 1905

Transfer Act of 1905
Act of February 1, 1905 (33 Stat. 628; 16 U.S.C. 472, 524, 554)
Sec. 1. The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture
Shall, from and after the passage of this Act, execute or cause
to be executed all laws affecting public lands heretofore or
hereafter reserved under the provisions of section twentyfour of the Act entitled “An Act to repeal the timber-culture
laws, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-one, and Acts supplemental to and
amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved,
excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting,
locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying,
certifying, or patenting of any such lands. (16 U.S.C. 472)….
Sec. 3. Forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected,
when practicable, from qualified citizens of the States or
Territories in which the national forests respectively, are
situated. (16 U.S.C. 554)
Sec. 4. Rights of way for the construction and mainteNance of dams, reservoirs, water plants, ditches, flumes,
Pipes, tunnels, and canals, within and across the national
forests of the United States, are hereby granted to citizens
and corporations of the United States for municipal or mining purposes, and for the purposes of the milling and reduction of ores, during the period of their beneficial use, under
such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the
Secretary of the Interior, and subject to the laws of the State
or Territory in which said reserves are respectively situated.
(16 U.S.C. 524)
USDA Forest Service. The Principal Laws Relating to Forest
Service Activities. Agriculture Handbook No. 453. 1974. - p.116.