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gest, report, and illustrate the results of 

 experiments and investigations made by 

 the Forest Service; to purchase law books 

 to an amount not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars, necessary supplies, apparatus, and 

 office fixtures, and technical books and 

 technical journals for officers of the For- 

 est Service stationed outside of Washing- 

 ton; to pay freight, express, telephone, and 

 telegraph charges; for electric light and 

 power, fuel, gas, ice, washing towels, and 

 official traveling and other necessary ex- 

 penses, including traveling expenses for 

 legal and fiscal officers while performing 

 Forest Service work; and for rent in the 

 city of Washington and elsewhere, as fol- 

 lows: 



For salaries and field and station expen- 

 ses, including the maintenance of nurse- 

 ries, collecting seed, and planting, neces- 

 sary for the use, maintenance, and protec- 

 tion of the national forests. (The specific 

 allotment for each forest is then designat- 

 ed in the bill.) 



For fighting forest fires and for other un- 

 foreseen emergencies, one hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars, of which sum seventy 

 thousand dollars shall be immediately 

 available. 



For the purchase and maintenance of 

 all necessary field, office, and laboratory 

 supplies, instruments and equipment, one 

 hundred and ninety-eight thousand and 

 eighty dollars; 



For investigations of methods for wood 

 distillation and for the preservative treat- 

 ment of timber, for timber testing and the 

 testing of such woods as may require test 

 to ascertain if they be suitable for making 

 paper, and for other investigations and 

 experiments to promote economy in the use 

 of forest products, one hundred and 

 seventy-seven thousand and forty dollars; 



For experiments and investigations of 

 range conditions within national forests, 

 and of the methods for improving the 

 range by reseeding. regulation of grazing, 

 and other means, eighteen thousand four 

 hundred and twenty dollars; 



For silvicultural and other experiments 

 and investigations within national forests 

 necessary for tree planting, for the repro- 

 duction of existing forests, and the regula- 

 tion of cutting, one hundred and sixty-six 

 thousand six hundred and forty dollars; 



For silvicultural, dendrologicaj, and other 

 experiments and investigations independ- 

 ently or in cooperation with other branches 

 of the federal government, with states and 

 with individuals, to determine the best 

 methods for the conservative management 

 of forests and forest lands, eighty-four 

 thousand five hundred and twenty-eight 

 dollars; 



For market and other miscellaneous for- 

 est investigations, and for collating, digest- 

 ing, recording, illustrating, and distribut- 

 ing the results of the experiments and in- 

 vestigations herein provided for, thirty- 



three thousand seven hundred and sixty 

 dollars; 



Provided, That no part of the money 

 herein appropriated shall be used to pay 

 the transportation or traveling expenses of 

 any forest officer or agent except he be 

 traveling on business directly connected 

 with the Forest Service and in furtherance 

 of the works, aims, and objects specified 

 and authorized in and by this appropria- 

 tion: Provided further. That no part of 

 this appropriation shall be paid or used 

 for the purpose of paying for, in whole or 

 in part, the preparation or publication of 

 any newspaper or magazine article, but 

 this shaH not prevent the giving out to all 

 lersons without discrimination, including 

 newspaper and magazine writers and pub- 

 lishers, of any facts or official information 

 of value to the public: Provided further. 

 That so much of an Act entitled "An act 

 making appropriations for the Department 

 of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending 

 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 

 eight," approved March fourth, nineteen 

 hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes 

 at Large, pages twelve hundred and fifty- 

 six and twelve hundred and seventy), 

 which provides for refunds by the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture to depositors of moneys 

 to secure the purchase price of timber or 

 the use of lands or resources of the na- 

 tional forests such sums as may be found 

 to be in excess of the amounts found actu- 

 ally due the United States, be, and is here- 

 by, amended hereafter to appropriate and 

 to include so much as may be necessary to 

 refund or pay over to the rightful claim- 

 ants such sums as may be found by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to have been erro- 

 neously collected for the use of any lands, 

 or for timber or other resources sold from 

 lands locateil within, but not a part of, the 

 national forests, or for alleged illegal acts 

 done upon such lands, which acts are sub- 

 sequently found to have been proper and 

 legal; and the Secretary of Agriculture 

 shall make annual report to Congress of 

 the amounts refunded hereunder. 



The law further designates the expendi- 

 ture of $500,000 for "improvement of na- 

 tional forests:" 



For the construction and maintenance of 

 roads, trails, bridges, fire lanes, telephone 

 lines, cabins, fences, and other permanent 

 Improvements necessary for the proper and 

 economical administration, protection, and 

 development of the National Forests, not to 

 exceed fifteen per centum of the total of all 

 sums appropriated under "General Expen- 

 ses, Forest Service," and under "Improve- 

 ment of the National Forests," may be 

 used In the discretion of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture as provided above under "Gen- 

 eral Expenses, Forest Service," and under 

 "Improvement of the National Forests," 

 for all expenses necessary for the general 

 administration of the Forest Service. 



An examination of this appropriation 



