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and public roads of the county or counties in which the forest reserve 

 is situated : Provided, That when any forest reserve is in more than 

 one State or Territory or county the' distributive share to each from 

 the proceeds of said reserve shall be proportional to its area therein. 



Act May 23, 1908. c. 102, 35 Stat. 260. 



This is a paragraph of tlie agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 19€9, cited above. 



These provisions supersede similar provisions of act June 30, 1906, 

 c. 3913, 34 Stat. G.S'., and act March 4, 1907, c. 2907. 34 Stat. 1270, for 

 payment for the same piuiioses of ten per centum of the money received 

 from each forest reserve, with an additional limitation of the amount 

 payable to any county. 



Provisions for payment to the States of New Mexico and Arizona, as 

 income for their common-school funds, of such proportion of the gross 

 proceeds of all national forests within said States as the area of lands 

 granted thereto for school purpo.ses and within such forests may bear to 

 the total area of all national forests within said States, contained in act 

 June 20, 1910, c. 310, are set forth on p. 136, post. 



ACT MAECH 3, 1901, c. 831. (31 Stat. 1010.) 



Selections of land in lieu of land in forest reservations, confined to vacant, 

 surveyed, nonmineral public lands subject to entry. 



* * * That all selections of land made in lieu of a tract covered 

 by an unperfected bona fide claim, or by a patent, included within a 

 public forest re.^^ervation, as provided in the Act of June fourth, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act making appro- 

 priations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal 

 year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and 

 for other purposes," shall be confined to vacant surveyed nonmineral 

 public lands which are subject to homestead entry not exceeding in 

 area the tract covered by such claim or patent : Provided^ That noth- 

 ing herein contained shall be construed to affect the rights of those 

 who, previous to October first, nineteen hundred, shall have delivered 

 to the United States deeds for lands within forest reservations and 

 make application for specific tracts of land in lieu thereof. 



Act March 3, 1901, c. 831, s. 1, 31 Stat. 1037. 



These are r)rovisious of the deficiency api>ropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1901, cited above. 



Provisions in the same language are contained in the sundry civil ap- 

 propriation act for the fiscal year 1901, act June 6, 1900, c. 5SS, s. 1, 31 

 Stat. 614. 



These provisions and also the provisions of act June 4. 1897. c. 2, men- 

 tioned in this paragraph and set forth above, are repealed, so far as they 

 provide for the relinquishment, selection, and patenting of lands in lieu 

 of tracts covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or patent within a 

 forest reserve, by a provision of act March 3, 1905, c. 1495, set forth 

 below. 



ACT MARCH 3, 1905. c. 1495. An act prohibiting the selection of timber lands 

 In lieu of lands in forest reserve.s. (33 Stat. 1204.) 



Provisions for selection of land in lieu of land in forest reserves, repealed; 

 selections heretofore made. 



That the Acts of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 

 June sixth, nineteen Inmdred. and March third, nineteen hundred and 

 one, are hereby repealed so far as they provide for the relinquishment, 

 selection, and patenting of lands in lieu of tracts covered by an un- 

 perfected bona fide claim or jiatent within a forest reserve, but the 

 validity of contracts entered into by the Secretary of the Interior 



