Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - Science |
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Academy of Sciences acres Agassiz amended annual appointed approved April April 18 ballot BARKER Benjamin Apthorp Gould BILLINGS board of forest Bowditch Cambridge CHANDLER CHARLES committee Congress Conn constitution council Department director districts duty election foreign associates forest administration forest fires forest lands forest reserves forestry GILL Government HAGUE HALL Haven head forester held HENRY home secretary Interior Ira Remsen irrigation JAMES JOHN Mass Massachusetts meeting members present memoirs MENDENHALL Michelson mineral mining Mount Rainier mountain National Academy national parks NEWCOMB nomination nonmineral number of votes O. C. Marsh officers Pennsylvania person president proposed reserve protection public domain public forests railroad rangers recommendation region Remsen River ROGERS Sept slopes square miles streams Survey THEODORE THEODORE N THEODORE VON OPPOLZER timber lands tion treasurer United States Army United States Navy valuable Verrill Washington Wiesbaden WILLIAM Wolcott Gibbs
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Page 6 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any -Department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 5 - That the National Academy of Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, bylaws, and rules and regulations...
Page 6 - Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, by-laws, and rules and regulations; to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise; to provide for the election of foreign and domestic members, the division into classes, and all other matters needful or usual in such institution, and to report the same to Congress.
Page 72 - That said public park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same.
Page 69 - BUILDINGS. nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the arrest by any officer of the United States, without process, of any person taken in the act of violating said laws and regulations.
Page 72 - ... an equal quantity of non-mineral public lands, so classified as nonmineral at the time of actual Government survey, which has been or shall be made, of the United States not reserved and to which no adverse right or claim shall have attached or have been initiated at the time of the making of such selection...
Page 72 - ... of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition. The Secretary may, in his discretion, grant leases for building purposes, for terms not exceeding twenty-five years, of small parcels of ground at such places in said park as shall require the erection of buildings for the accommodation of visitors...
Page 57 - ... other trees growing or being on the public lands, said lands being mineral, and not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States, except for mineral entry, in either of said States, Territories, or districts, of which such citizens or persons may be at the time...
Page 64 - The Secretary of War, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized and directed to make the necessary details of troops to prevent trespassers or intruders from entering the park for the purpose of destroying the game or objects of curiosity therein, or for any other purpose prohibited by law, and to remove such persons from the parks...
Page 60 - That the right of way through the public lands of the United States is hereby granted to any railroad company duly organized under the laws of any State or Territory...