---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 509"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "509"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 87–869, § 4, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/509"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# [§509. Repealed. Pub. L. 87–869, § 4, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act June 11, 1906, ch. 3074, § 5, 34 Stat. 234, related to future settlements on lands within reserves and rights of former bona fide settlers.