AMERICAN FORESTRY 



gricultural purposes without injury 

 > the forests or to stream flow and 

 ,'hich are not needed for public pur- 

 oses, and may list and describe the 

 ame by metes and bounds, or other- 

 use, and offer them for sale as home- 

 teads at their true value, to be fixed by 

 im, to actual settlers, in tracts not 

 xceeding eighty acres in area, under 

 jch joint rules and regulations as the 

 ecretary of Agriculture and the Secre- 

 iry of the Interior may prescribe ; and 

 i case of such sale the jurisdiction over 

 ie lands sold shall, ipso facto, revert 

 ) the state in which the lands sold lie. 

 .nd no right, title, interest, or claim in 

 r to any lands acquired under this act, 

 r the waters thereon, or the products, 

 ^sources, or use thereof after such 

 inds shall have been acquired, shall 

 z initiated or perfected, except as in 

 lis section provided. 

 SEC. 12. That, subject to the provi- 

 ons of the last preceding section, the 

 .nds acquired under this act shall be 

 srmanently reserved, held, and admin- 

 tered as national forest lands under the 

 revisions of section twenty-four of the 

 :t approved March 3, 1891 (Vol. 

 5 Stat. at Large, p. 1103), and acts 

 ipplemental to and amendatory there- 

 f. And the Secretary of Agriculture 

 lay from time to time divide the lands 

 :quired under this act into such specific 

 National Forests and so designate the 



o 



ime as he may deem best for adminis- 

 ative purposes. 



SRC. 13. That the jurisdiction, both 



ivil and criminal, over persons upon 



ie lands acquired under this act shall 



ot be affected or changed by their per- 



nl iv-r,-vation and administration 



Xntional Forest lands, except so far 



; the punishment of offenses against 



if Tinted States is concerned, the in- 



tent and meaning of this section being 

 that the state wherein such land is situ- 

 ated shall not, by reason of such reser- 

 vation and administration, lose its juris- 

 diction nor the inhabitants thereof their 

 rights and privileges as citizens or be 

 absolved from their duties as citizens 

 of the state. 



SEC. 14. That 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 Sec- 

 retary 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 pub- 

 lic schools ,and public roads of the 

 county or counties in which such Na- 

 tional 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 commis- 

 sion and its members, not to exceed an 

 annual expenditure of $25,000, is here- 

 by appropriated out of any money in 

 the Treasury not otherwise appropri- 

 ated. Said appropriation shall be im- 

 mediately available, and shall be paid 

 out on the audit and order of the presi- 

 dent 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 com- 

 mission. 



MAJESTIC WOODS 



Majestic woods of ev'ry vigorous green, 



bove Mage, high waving o 'er the hills, 

 Or in tin- far horizon wide diffused, 

 \ hound!. -s. ,1,.,.,, immensity of shade. 



Thomson 



