358 ACTS OF CONGRESS 



SECS. 636-638 CONSERVATION BOUNDARY. 



CHAPTER 47. 



MISCELLANEOUS ACTS. 



SEC. 636. States May Co-operate for Fire Protection. 



637. Government May Aid States Therein. 



638. Boundary; Adjustment of Dispute. 



639. Consent to Lease for Hoquiam Park. 



SEC. 636. INTERSTATE AGREEMENTS FOR CONSERVATION. 



The consent of the Congress of the United States is hereby given to 

 each of the several states of the union to enter into any agreement or 

 compact, not in conflict with any law of the United States, with any 

 other state or states for the purpose of conserving the forests and 

 the water supply of the states entering into such agreement or compact. 

 (Act Mar. 1, '11; 36 Stat. L., p. 961; Fed. Stat. Ann., '12 Supp., p. 390; 

 Comp. Stat, '11 Supp., p. 652.) 



SEC. 637. FEDERAL AID OF FIRE PROTECTION. 



The sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated and 

 made available until expended, out of any moneys in the National 

 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary 'of 

 Agriculture to cooperate with any state or group of states, when re- 

 quested to do so, in the protection from fire of the forested watersheds 

 of navigable streams; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby 

 authorized, and on such conditions as he deems wise, to stipulate and 

 agree with any state or group of states to cooperate in the organization 

 and maintenance of a system of fire protection on any private or state 

 forest lands within such state or states and situated upon the water- 

 shed of a navigable river: Provided, That no such stipulation or agree- 

 ment shall be made with any state which has not provided by law for 

 a system of forest fire protection: Provided further, That in no case 

 shall the amount expended in any state exceed in any fiscal year the 

 amount appropriated by that state for the same purpose during the 

 same fiscal year. (Act Mar. 1, '11; 36 Stat. L., p. 961, sec. 2; Fed. 

 Stat. Ann., '12 Supp., p. 391; Comp. Stat, '11 Supp., p. 652.) 



SEC. 638. OREGON-WASHINGTON BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT. 



The consent of the Congress is hereby given to the States of Oregon 

 and Washington to enter into such agreement or contract as they may 

 deem desirable or necessary, not in conflict with the Constitution of the 

 United States, or any law thereof, to fix the boundary line between said 

 states where the Columbia river now forms said boundary, and to cede, 

 respectively, each to the other, such islands, sands, tracts, or parcels 

 of lands, title to which has heretofore been in dispute; that is to say, 



