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[CITE: 16USC479]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 479. Sites for schools and churches

    The settlers residing within the exterior boundaries of national 
forests, or in the vicinity thereof, may maintain schools and churches 
within such national forest, and for that purpose may occupy any part of 
the said national forest, not exceeding two acres for each schoolhouse 
and one acre for a church.

(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 36.)

                          Codification

    ``National forests'' substituted in text for ``forest 
reservations'', and ``national forest'' substituted for ``reservation'' 
and ``forest reservation'' on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 
34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be 
known as national forests.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 478, 482, 551 of this title.
