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to secure the purchase price of timber or the use of lands or resources 



of the National Forests such sums as may be found to be in excess of 



the amounts found actually due the United States, be, and is hereby, 



amended hereafter to appropriate and to include so much as may be 



necessary to refund or pay over to the rightful claimants such sums as 



may be found by the Secretary of Agriculture to have been erroneously 



collected for the use of any lands, or for timber or other resources sold 



from lands located within, but not a part of, the national forests, or for 



alleged illegal acts done upon such lands, which acts are subsequently 



found to have been proper and legal; and the Secretary of Agriculture 



shall make annual report to Congress of the amounts refunded here- * 



under. 



UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. 



SEC. 3469. Upon a report by a district attorney, or any special Compromise of 

 attorney or agent having charge of any claim in favor of the United claims - 

 States, showing in detail the condition of such claim, and the terms 

 upon which the same may be compromised, and recommending that 

 it be compromised upon the terms so offered, and upon the recom- 

 mendation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury is authorized to compromise such claim accordingly. But the 

 provisions of this section shall not apply to any claim arising under the 

 postal laws. 



Agricultural appropriation act of August 10, 1912 (37 Stat., 269). 



GENERAL EXPENSES, FOREST SERVICE: To enable the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations 

 and report on forestry, National Forests, forest fires, and lumbering, 

 but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or 

 test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the 

 owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate 

 and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods 

 for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investiga- 

 tions and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for 

 the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: Provided, That the 

 cost of any building erected shall not exceed six hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars: And provided further, That no part of the appropriation made by 

 this act shall be used for the construction, repair, maintenance or use 

 of buildings or improvements made for forest-ranger stations within the 

 inclosed fields of bpna fide homestead settlers who have established 

 residence upon their homestead lands prior to the date of the estab- 

 lishment of the forest reservation in which the homestead lands are 

 situated, without the consent of the homesteader; to pay all expenses 

 necessary to protect, administer, and improve the National Forests; to 

 ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the National Forests; 

 and the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, permit timber 

 and other forest products cut or removed from the National Forests, 

 except the Black Hills and Harney National Forests in South Dakota, 

 to be exported from the State, Territory, or the District of Alaska in 

 which said forests are respectively situated: Provided, That the exporta- 

 tion of dead and insect-infested timber only from said Black Hills and 

 Harney National Forests shall be allowed until such time as the Forester 

 shall certify that the ravages of the destructive insects in said forests 

 are practically checked, but in no case after July first, nineteen hun- 

 dred and fourteen; to transport and care for fish and game supplied to 

 stock the National Forests or the waters therein; to employ agents, 

 clerks, assistants, and other labor required in practical forestry and in 

 the administration of National Forests, in the city of Washington and 

 elsewhere; to collate, digest, report, and illustrate the results of experi- 

 ments and investigations made by the Forest Service; to purchase law 

 book8 ? to an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars, necessary 

 supplies, apparatus, and office fixtures, and technical booka and tech- 

 nical journals for officers of the Forest Service stationed outside of 

 Washington; to pay freight, express, telephone, and telegraph charges; 

 for electric light and power, fuel, gas, ice 2 washing towels, and official 

 traveling and other necessary expenses, including traveling expenses 



