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operations and expenditures of the commission, in detail, during the preceding 

 fiscal ye;ir. 



SEC. 7. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed 

 to examine, locate, and recommend for purchase such lands as in his judgment 

 may be necessary to the regulation of the flow of navigable streams, and to 

 report to the National Forest Reservation Commission the results of such exam- 

 inations: Provided, That before any lands are purchased by the National Forest 

 Reservation Commission said lands shall be examined by the Geological Sur- 

 vey and a report made to the Secretary of Agriculture, showing that the control 

 of such lands will promote or protect the navigation of streams on whose 

 watersheds they lie. 



SEC. S. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to purchase, 

 in the name of the United States, such lauds as have been approved for pur- 

 chase by the National Forest Reservation Commission at the price or prices 

 fixed by said commission: Provided, That no deed or other instrument of con- 

 veyance shall be accepted or approved by the Secretary of Agriculture under 

 this act until the legislature of the State in which the land lies shall have con- 

 sented to the acquisition of such land by the United States for the purpose of 

 preserving the navigability of navigable streams. 



SEC. 9. That the Secretary of Agriculture may do all things necessary to 

 secure the safe title in the United States to the lands to be acquired under this 

 act; but no payment shall be made for any such lands until the title shall be 

 satisfactory to the Attorney-General and shall be vested in the United States. 



SEC. 10. That such acquisition may in any case be conditioned upon the ex- 

 ception and reservation to the owner, from whom title passes to the United 

 States, of the minerals and of the merchantable timber, or 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 expressed 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. 11. That whereas small areas of land chiefly valuable for agriculture 

 may of necessity or by inadvertence be included in tracts acquired under this 

 act, the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and he is hereby author- 

 ized, 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 purposes, 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 Sec- 

 retary of the Interior may prescribe ; and in case of such sale the jurisdiction 

 over the land 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 lauds shall have been so acquired, shall be initiated or perfected, except 

 as in this section provided. 



SEC. 12. That, subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, the lands 

 acquired under this act shall be permanently reserved, held, and administered 

 as national forest lands under the provisions of section twenty-four of the act 

 approved March third, eighteen hundred 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 administrative purposes. 



SEC. 13. That the jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons upon the 

 lands acquired under this act shall not be affected or changed by their perma- 

 nent 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 inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens or be absolved 

 from their duties as citizens of the State. 



