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War, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 and two members of the Senate, to be selected by the President of 

 the Senate, and two members of the House of Representatives, to 

 be selected by the Speaker, is hereby created and authorized to 

 consider and pass upon such lands as may be recommended for 

 purchase as provided in Section 6 of this act, and to fix the price 

 or prices at which such lands may be purchased, and no purchases 

 shall be made of any lands until such lands have been duly 

 approved for purchase by said commission : Provided, That the 

 members of the commission herein created shall serve as such only 

 during their incumbency in their respective official positions, and 

 any vacancy on the commission shall be filled in the manner as 

 the original appointment. 



Sec. 5. That the commission hereby appointed shall, through 

 its president, annually report to Congress, not later than the first 

 Monday of December, the operations and expenditures of the 

 commission, in detail, during the preceding fiscal year. 



Sec 6. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized 

 and directed to examine, locate, and recommend for purchase 

 such lands as in his judgment may be necessary to the regulation 

 of the flow of navigable streams, and to report to the National 

 Forest Reservation Commission the results of such examinations : 

 Provided, That before any lands are purchased by the National 

 Forest Reservation Commission said lands shall be examined by 

 the Geological Survey and a report made to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, showing that the control of such lands will promote 

 or protect the navigation of streams on whose watersheds they lie. 



Sec. 7. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized 

 to purchase, in the name of the United States, such lands as have 

 been approved for purchase by the National Forest Reservation 

 Commission at the price or prices fixed by said commission : 

 Provided, That no deed or other instrument of conveyance shall 

 be accepted or approved by the Secretary of Agriculture under 

 this act until the legislature of the State in which the land lies 

 shall have consented to the acquisition of such land by the United 

 States for the purpose of preserving the navigability of navigable 

 streams. 



Sec. 8. That the Secretary of Agriculture may do all things 

 necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the lands 

 to be acquired under this act, but no payment shall be made for 

 any such lands until the title shall be satisfactory to the Attorney 

 General and shall be vested in the United States. 



Sec. 9. That such acquisition may in any case be conditioned 

 upon the exception and reservation to the owner from whom; 

 title passes to the United States of the minerals and of the 

 merchantable timber, or either or any part of them, within or 

 upon such lands at the date of the conveyance, but in every case 

 such exception and reservation and the time within which such 



