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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January- 



culture may do all things necessary to 

 secure the safe title in the United 

 States to the lands to be acquired un- 

 der this act; but no payment shall be 

 made for any such land until the title 

 shall be satisfactory to the Attorney- 

 General and shall be vested in the 

 United States. 



Sec. 5. That the sum of five million 

 dollars is hereby appropriated to carry 

 out the provisions of this act, out of 

 any moneys in the Treasury not other- 

 wise appropriated, and said sum shall 

 be available immediately and until ex- 

 pended for said purpose. Prozided, 

 that the Secretary of Agriculture shall 

 each year make a detailed report to 

 Congress on the lands acquired under 

 this act and the cost thereof. 



Sec. 6. That, whereas small areas of 

 land chiefly valuable for agriculture 

 may of necessity or by inadvertence be 

 included in tracts acquired under this 

 act, the Secretary of Agriculture may 

 in his discretion and he is hereby au- 

 thorized, upon application or other- 

 wise, to examine and ascertain the lo- 

 cation and extent of such areas as, in 

 his opinion, may be occupied for agri- 

 cultural purposes without injury to the 

 forests and which are not needed for 

 public purposes, and may list and de- 

 scribe the same by metes and bounds, 

 or otherwise, and offer them for sale 

 as homesteads, at their true value to 

 be fixed by him, to actual settlers in 

 tracts not exceeding eighty acres in 

 area, under such joint rules and regu- 

 lations as the Secretary of Agriculture 

 and the Secretary of the Interior may 

 prescribe. And no right, title, interest, 

 or claim in or to any lands acquired 

 under this act or the waters thereon, 

 or the products, resources or use 

 thereof after such lands shall have 

 been so acquired, shall be initiated or 

 perfected except as in this section pro- 

 vided. And the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture may, under rules and regulations 

 to be prescribed by him, authorize the 

 sale of any products of the lands ac- 

 quired under this act and the use of 

 any such land or the resources thereof 



consistent with its reservation for for 

 est purposes. 



Sec. 7. That, subject to the pro- 

 visions of the last preceding section the 

 lands acquired under this act shall be 

 permanently reserved, held and admin- 

 istered as National Forest lands under 

 the provisions of Section 24 of the Act 

 approved March 3, 1891 (Volume 26 

 Statutes at Large, page 1103), and 

 acts supplemental to and amendatory 

 thereof. And the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture may from time to time divide 

 the lands acquired under this act into 

 such specific National Forests and so 

 designate the same, as he may deem. 

 best for administrative purposes. 



Sec. 8. That the jurisdiction, both 

 civil and criminal, over persons upon 

 the lands acquired under this act, shall 

 not be affected or changed by their 

 permanent reservation and administra- 

 tion as National Forest lands, except 

 so far as the punishment of offenses 

 against the United States is concern- 

 ed ; the intent and meaning of this sec- 

 tion being that the State wherein any 

 such land is situated shall not, by rea- 

 son of such reservation and adminis- 

 tration, lose its jurisdiction, nor the in- 

 habitants thereof their rights and priv- 

 ileges as citizens, or be absolved from 

 their duties as citizens of the State. 



Sec. 9. That ten per centum of all 

 money received during any fiscal year 

 from each National Forest into which 

 the lands acquired under this act may 

 from time to time be divided, shall be 

 paid at the end of such year by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury to the State 

 in which such National Forest is situ- 

 ated, to be expended as the State legis- 

 lature may prescribe for the benefit of 

 the county or counties in which such 

 National Forest is situated : Provided, 

 that when any National Forest is in 

 more than one State or county the dis- 

 tributive share to each from the pro- 

 ceeds of such Forest shall be propor- 

 tional to its area therein : Provided 

 further, that there shall not be paid to 

 any State for any county an amount 

 equal to more than 40 per centum of 



