INDEX. 97 



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Waters, control and use, notes 8 



mineral, control by Interior Department (30 Stat. L., 908) ^41-42 



Secretary of Agriculture, decision * 41 



property^ rights of United States 8 



Watersheds, navigable streams, cooperation of States (37 Stat. L., 269) 12 



protection (36 Stat. L., 961) 10-12 



Weapons, concealed, permission for forest officers to carry 18 



Weeks' forestry law, supervision in District of Columbia, payment, decision. . . 79 



Wichita game refuge, authorization (33 Stat. L., 614) 14 



Widows, employees', compensation for .loss (35 Stat. L., 556) 15 



homestead claims ("R. S., 2291; 26 L. D., 436) 22,24,28 



Wire, contract price, decision 81 



Withdrawals, public land, authority of President 8 



Witnesses, Government officers, payment of expenses, decision 79 



Women, married, free homesteads opened to settlement 26 



Wood distillation, investigations, appropriation, 1912 78 



pulp, exportation from Alaska (33 Stat. L., 628) 60 



Wyoming, desert-land laws 46-49 



forest reserve changes, control (34 Stat. L., 1256) 5 



increase forbidden (36 Stat. L. , 847) 9 



Yosemite National Park, rights of way for public uses permissive (81 Stat. L.. 

 790) : 5S-64 



Zuni National Forest, notes 



66777 13 7 



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