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[CITE: 16USC569]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 569. Donations to United States of lands for timber 
        purposes
        
    To enable owners of lands chiefly valuable for the growing of timber 
crops to donate or devise such lands to the United States in order to 
assure future timber supplies for the agricultural and other industries 
of the State or for other national forest purposes, the Secretary of 
Agriculture is authorized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of the 
United States title to any such land so donated or devised, subject to 
such reservations by the donor of the present stand of merchantable 
timber or of mineral or other rights for a period not exceeding twenty 
years as the Secretary of Agriculture may find to be reasonable and not 
detrimental to the purposes of this section, and to pay out of any 
moneys appropriated for the general expenses of the Forest Service the 
cost of recording deeds or other expenses incident to the examination 
and acceptance of title. Any lands to which title is so accepted shall 
be in units of such size or so located as to be capable of economical 
administration as national forests either separately or jointly with 
other lands acquired under this section, or jointly with an existing 
national forest. All lands to which title is accepted under this section 
shall, upon acceptance of title, become national forest lands, subject 
to all laws applicable to lands acquired under the Act of March 1, 1911, 
and amendments thereto. In the sale of timber from national forest lands 
acquired under this section preference shall be given to applicants who 
will furnish the products desired therefrom to meet the necessities of 
citizens of the United States engaged in agriculture in the States in 
which such national forest is situated. All property, rights, easements, 
and benefits authorized by this section to be retained by or reserved to 
owners of lands donated or devised to the United States shall be subject 
to the tax laws of the States where such lands are located.

(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, Sec. 7, 43 Stat. 654.)

                       References in Text

    Act of March 1, 1911, referred to in text, is act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 
186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended, popularly known as the Weeks Law, which 
is classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552, and 563 of 
this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 552 of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 527, 566b, 582 of this 
title.
