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and custom-houses are used and for the public benefit and protection as 

 light-houses are used, and since so many of the uses of national forests 

 are of the same general nature and character and promote the public 

 good after much the same manner as the reservations specifically re- 

 ferred to in the act of 1902, it is believed that such national forests 

 partake of the nature of the reservations referred to in that act, espe- 

 cially since all must be made from the public lands belonging to the 

 United States, and that therefore said act may properly be considered 

 as supplemental to the act of March 3, 1901. 



Since the necessity of the appointment of the supervisor for the 

 Luquillo National Forest is urgent, I respectfully request that you 

 advise me whether or not the fiscal agent would be authorized to pay 

 his salary from the moneys appropriated by the act of March 4, 1907, 

 above mentioned. 



The act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat, 1256, 1269, 1271), to which you refer, 

 makes appropriations for "Salaries, Forest Service," aggregating $143,200: 

 for " General Expenses, Forest Service," $1,746,800 ; and for the proper and 

 economical administration, protection, and development of the national forests, 

 $500,000. 



The appropriation for salaries is made specifically for salaries of clerks, 

 draftsmen, photographers, messengers, watchmen, a forester, a carpenter, and 

 an electrician. It is therefore not applicable to the compensation of a super- 

 visor of a national forest. 



The appropriation for general expenses provides as follows : 



To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to make and 

 continue investigations and report on forestry, forest reserves, which 

 shall be known hereafter as national forests, forest fires, and lumbering; 

 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 

 investigations 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 one thousand dol- 

 lars ; to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, improve, and 

 extend the national forests; and hereafter officials of the Forest Service 

 designated by the Secretary of Agriculture shall, in all ways that are 

 practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the States or Terri- 

 tories with regard to stock, for the prevention and extinguishment of 

 forest fires, and for the protection of fish and game. 



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 for- 

 ests of the United States, except the Black Hills National Forest 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 expor- 

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

 tional Forest shall be allowed until such time as the Forester shall 

 certify that the ravages of the destructive insects in said forest are 

 practically checked, but in no case after July first, nineteen hundred and 

 eight ; to transport and care for fish and 'game supplied to stock the 

 national forests or the waters therein ; to employ fiscal and other agents, 

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

 administration of national forests in the District of Columbia or else- 

 where; and hereafter he may dispose of photographic prints (including 

 bromide enlargements), lantern slides, transparencies, blueprints, and 

 forest maps at cost and ten per centum additional, and condemned prop- 

 erty or materials under his charge in the same manner as provided by 

 law for other bureaus; to collate, digest, report, illustrate, and print the 

 results of experiments and investigations made by the Forest Service; 

 to purchase law books to an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars, 

 necessary supplies, apparatus, office fixtures, and technical books, and 

 technical journals for officers of the Forest Service stationed outside 

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



