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by the National Forest Reservation Commission (annual appro- 

 priation $25,000), consisting of three secretaries (War, Interior, 

 and Agriculture), two senators and two congressmen. 



The grantors from whom the nation acquires the title may 

 reserve, as easements, mineral rights, timber and so on. Such 

 parts of a national forest thus acquired under the Weeks Bill 

 as are agricultural in character can be re-opened to homesteaders. 

 Since the state and the county wherein a national forest is 

 established by purchase will lose the tax receipts from such 

 forest, it is provided that five per cent of the monies received 

 from a national forest shall be turned over to the secretary of 

 the state treasury, to be spent for public schools and for public 

 roads within the counties composing the national forest. 



The acreage of the national forests, including those of Alaska, 

 is close to 200 million acres now-a-days. The location and area 

 of the national forests appears from the following tabular 

 statement : 



