44 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



agricultural purposes without injur}' tent and meaning of this section being 



to the forests or to stream flow and that the state wherein such land is situ- 



which are not needed for public pur- ated shall not, by reason of such reser- 



poses, and may list and describe the vation and administration, lose its juris- 



same by metes and bounds, or other- diction nor the inhabitants thereof their 



wise, and offer them for sale as home- rights and privileges as citizens or be 



steads at their true value, to be fixed by absolved from their duties as citizens 



him, to actual settlers, in tracts not of the state. 



exceeding eighty acres in area, under Sec. 14. That five per centum of all 

 such joint rules and regulations as the moneys received during any fiscal year 

 Secretary of Agriculture and the Secre- from each National Forest into which 

 tary of the Interior may prescribe ; and j-^g lands acquired under this act may 

 in case of such sale the jurisdiction over fj-om time to time be divided shall be 

 the lands sold shall, ipso facto, revert ^^2^16., at the end of such year, by the See- 

 to the state in which the lands sold lie. retary of the Treasury to the state in 

 And no right, title, interest, or claim in ^hich such National Forest is situated, 

 or to any lands acquired under this act, ^^ ^^ expended as the state legislature 

 or the waters thereon, or the products, ^^^^ prescribe for the benefit of the pub- 

 resources, or use thereof after such jj^ schools and public roads of the 

 lands shall have been acquired, shall county or counties in which such Na- 

 be initiated or perfected, except as m ^j^^^^j Forest is situated : Provided, That 

 this section provided. ,^^,^g^ ^^^ National Forest is in more 

 Sec. 12. That, subject to the provi- ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^y ^j^g distributive 

 sions of the last precedmg section the ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ proceeds of such 

 lands acquired under this act shall be ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ proportional to its area 

 permanently reserved, held, and admin- ^^^^^^^. provided further, That there 

 istered as nationaHorest lands under he ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ 

 provisions of section twenty-four of he ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^j. ^^^^^j ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ 



act approved March 3, 1891 (Vol. f^j-ty per centum of the total income of 

 26 Stat, at Large, p. 1103), and acts ^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^j^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ 

 supplemental to and amendatory there- y ^^^^^ ^^^^^.^^^^ ^^ 

 of. And the Secretary of Agriculture 5 ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^.^ 

 may from time to timedivide the lands ^^ J^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^„ 

 acquired under this act into such specihc V <to^ ^r^r^ ic i^^rP 

 National Forests and so designate the annual expendi ure ^^ f ^5,0^°; ^^ If.^" 

 same as he may deem best for adminis- by^ ^^^^^^^1^,:;^ Tp^^ri 

 "Iec. ^:7°l^::t the jurisdiction, both atecL Said apprjriation shall be un- 

 civil and criminal, over persons upon mediately available and shall be paid 

 the lands acquired under this act shall out on the audit and order of the presi- 

 not be affected or changed by their per- <lent of the said commission.^ which 

 manent reservation and administration audit and order shall be conclusive and 

 as National Forest lands, except so far binding upon all departments as to the 

 as the punishment of offenses against correctness of the accounts of said com- 

 the United States is concerned, the in- mission. 



MAJESTIC WOODS 



Majestic woods of ev'ry vigorous green. 

 Stage above stage, high waving o'er the hills, 

 Or to the far horizon wide diffused, 

 A boundless, deep immensity of shade. 



— Thomson 



