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State iii which the land lies shall have consented to the acquisition of 

 such land by the United States for the purpose of preserving the navi- 

 gability of navigable streams. 



SEC. 8. That the Secretary of Agriculture may do all things necessary Titles obtained 



to secure the safe title in the United States to the lands to be acquired AgricSire and 



under this act, but no payment shall be made for any such lands until passed upon by 

 the title shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General and shall be Attorney General. 

 vested in the United States. 



SEC. 9. That such acquisition may in any case be conditioned upon Reservations of 

 the exception and reservation to the owner from whom title passes to timber and min- 

 the United States of the minerals and of the merchantable timber, or era 

 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 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 ex- 

 pressed 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 valuable for Sale of agricul- 

 agriculture may of necessity or by inadvertence be included in tracts aJSed S a " 

 acquired under this act, the Secretary of Agriculture may, in Ms dis- 

 cretion, 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 pur- 

 poses, and may list and describe 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 regulations as the Secretary of 

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

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

 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 thereof after such lands shall 

 have been so acquired, shall be initiated or perfected, except as in this 

 section provided. 



SEC. 11. That, subject to the provisions of the last preceding sec- Lands acquired 

 tion, the lands acquired under this act shall be permanently reserved, ministered "s na- 

 held, and administered as national forest lands under the provisions tional forest 

 of section twenty-four of the act approved March third, eighteen hun- lands. 

 dred and ninety-one (volume twenty-six, Statutes at Large, page 

 eleven hundred and three), and acts supplemental to and amendatory 

 thereof. And the Secretary of Agriculture 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 adminis- 

 trative purposes. 



SEC. 12. That the jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons Jurisdiction of 

 upon the lands acquired under this act shall not be affected or changed 

 by their permanent reservation and administration 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 administration, lose its jurisdiction nor the inhabi- 

 tants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens or be absolved from 

 their duties as citizens of the State. 



SEC. 13. That five per centum of all moneys received during any Five per cent of 

 fiscal year from each National Forest into which the lands acquired re 

 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 situated, to be expended as the State 

 legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and pub- 

 lic roads 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 distributive share to each from the proceeds 



