16 USC § 607a - Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc.

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title: "16 USC § 607a - Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc."
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "607a"
section_name: "Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc."
chapter_number: 4
chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
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source_credit: "(May 14, 1898, ch. 299, § 11, 30 Stat. 414; June 15, 1938, ch. 437, 52 Stat. 699.)"
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# § 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.

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**Source Credit**: (May 14, 1898, ch. 299, § 11, 30 Stat. 414; June 15, 1938, ch. 437, 52 Stat. 699.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of the last sentence of section 11 of act . The remainder of section 11 of act , is classified to .

Section was formerly classified to , Territories and Insular Possessions.

### Amendments

1938—Act , inserted last clause relating to use of timber by churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions.