128 FOKEST LANDS FOB THE PROTECTION OF WATERSHEDS. 



list and describe the same by metes and bounds, or otherwise, and offer them for 

 gale 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 Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; and in 

 case of such sale the jurisdiction over the lands 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 lands shall have been so acquired, shall be initiated or per- 

 fected, 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 permanent reser- 

 vation 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. 



SEC. 14. That twenty-five per centum of all moneys received during any fiscal year 

 from each national forest into which the lands acquired under this act may from time 

 to time be divided shall be paid, at the end of such year, by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury to the State in which such national forest is situated, to be expended as the 

 state legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads 

 of the county or counties in which such national forest is situated: Provided, That 

 when any national forest is in more than one State or county the distributive share 

 to each from the proceeds of such forest shall be proportional to its area therein: 

 Provided further, That there shall not be paid to any State for any county an amount 

 equal to more than forty per centum of the total income of such county from all other 

 sources. 



SEC. 15. That a sum sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the commission 

 and its members, not to exceed an annual expenditure of twenty-five thousand dol- 

 lars, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated. Said appropriation shall be immediately available and shall be paid out 

 on the audit and order of the president of the said commission ; which audit and 

 order shall be conclusive and binding upon all departments as to the correctness of 

 the accounts of said commission. 



Amend the title so as to read: u An act to enable any State to co- 

 operate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for 

 the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint 

 a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserv- 

 ing the navigability of navigable rivers." 



