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timber shall be removed and the rules and regulations under 

 which the cutting and removal of such timber and the mining and 

 removal of such minerals shall be done shall be expressed in the 

 written instrument of conveyance, and thereafter the mining, 

 cutting, and removal of the minerals and timber so excepted and 

 reserved shall be done only under and in obedience to the rules 

 and regulations so expressed. 



Sec. 10. That inasmuch as small areas of land chiefly valu- 

 able for agriculture may of necessity or by inadvertence be 

 included in tracts acquired under this act, the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture may, in his discretion, and he is hereby authorized, upon 

 application or otherwise, to examine and ascertain the location 

 and extent of such areas as in his opinion may be occupied for 

 agricultural purposes without injury to the forests or to stream 

 flow and which are not needed for public purposes, and may list 

 and describe the same by metes and bounds, or otherwise, and 

 oflfer them for sale as homesteads at their true value to be fixed 

 by him, to actual settlers, in tracts not exceeding 80 acres in area, 

 under such joint rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture and the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe ; and in 

 case of such sale the jurisdiction over the lands sold shall, ipso 

 factor, revert to the State in which the lands sold lie. 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 there- 

 of after such lands shall have been so acquired, shall be initiated 

 or perfected, except as in this section provided. 



Sec. II. That, subject to the provisions of the last preceding 

 section, the lands acquired under this act shall he permanently 

 reserved, held, and administered as national forest lands under 

 the provisions of Section 24 of the act approved March 3, 1891, 

 (Vol. 26 Stat. L., p. 1103), and acts supplemental to and amenda- 

 tory thereof. And the Secretary of Agriculture may from time 

 to time divide the land acquired under this act into such specific 

 National Forests and so designate the same as he may deem best 

 for administrative purposes. 



Sec. 12. That the jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over 

 persons upon the lands acquired under this act shall not be 

 afifected or changed by their permanent reservation and adminis- 

 tration as National Forest lands, except so far as the punishment 

 of offenses against the United States is concerned, the intent and 

 meaning of this section being that the State wherein such land is 

 situated shall not, by reason of such reservation and administra- 

 tion, lose its jurisdiction nor the inhabitants thereof their rights 

 and privileges as citizens or be absolved from their duties as 

 citizens of the State. 



Sec. 13. That 5 per cent, of all moneys 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 



