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dollars, and for "each fiscal year thereafter a sum not to exceed two 

 million dollars for use in the examination, survey, and acquirement 

 of lands located on the headwaters of navioabl'e streams or those 

 which are being or which may be developed tor navigable purposes: 

 Provided., That the provisions of this section shall expire by limita- 

 tion on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and fifteen. 



Act March 1, 1911, c. 186, s. 3, 36 Stat. 961. 



There is ai)i)roi)ri;ite<l and made availablo until exi^euded, for carrying 

 out tlie purposes inentioncHl in tliis section, .s^o much of the maximum 

 sums mentioned in this section for tlie fiscal years 1912 to 1915, inclusive, 

 as shall remain unexpended at the close of each of said fiscal years, by 

 a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, 

 set forth below. 



National Forest Reservation Commission; creation and composition; authority 

 to purchase lands under act; service of members; vacancies. 



Sec. 4. That a commission, to be Icnown as the National Forest 

 Reservation Commission, consisting of the Secretaiy of "War, the 

 Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and two mem- 

 bers of the Senate, to be selected by the President of the Senate, 

 and two members of the House of Representatives, to be selected 

 by the Speaker, is hereby created and authorized to consider and pass 

 upon such lands as may be recommended for purchase as provided 

 in section six of this Act, and to fix the price or prices at which such 

 lands may be purchased, and no purchases shall be made of any lands 

 until such lands have been dul,y approved for purchase by said com- 

 mission: Provided.) That the members of the commission herein 

 created shall serve as such only during their incumbency in their 

 respective official positions, and any vacancy on the commission 

 shall be filled in the manner as the original appointment. 



Act March 1, 1911, c. 186, s. 4, 36 Stat. 962. 



Annual reports of commission. 



Sec. 5. That the commission hereby appointed shall, through its 

 president, annually report to Congress, not later than the first Mon- 

 day in December, the operations and expenditures of the commis.sion, 

 in detail, during the preceding fiscal year. 



Act March 1. 1911, c. 186, s. 5, 36 Stat. 962. 



Examination, etc., of lands for purchase and report thereon by Secretary of 

 Agriculture. 



Sec. 6. 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 residts of such examinations: Provided.^ 

 That before any lands are purchased by the National Forest Reser- 

 vation Commission said lands shall be examined by the Geological 

 Survey 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. 



Act ^larch 1, 1911, c. 186, s. 6, 36 Stat. 962. 

 Purchase of lands approved by commission; consent of State. 



Sec. 7. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized 

 to purchase, in the name of the United States, such lands as have 

 been approved for purchase by the National Forest Reservation 



