FOREST SER\aCE. XQ\ 



Lands acquired reserved as national forest lands; division into and designation 

 as specific national forests. 



Sec. 11. That, subject to the provisions of the last preceding sec- 

 tion, 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 adminis- 

 trative purposes. 



Act March 1. 1911, c. 1S6, s. 11, 36 Stat. 963. 



Act March 3, 1891, c. 5G1, s. 24, nieutioued iu this section, is set forth 

 on p. 87. attte. 



An approiiriatiou for additional national forests to be created under 

 this section, and for lands under contract for purchase or for the acquisi- 

 tion of which condemnation proceedings have been instituted for the 

 purposes of this act, is made in the agricultural appropriation act for 

 the fiscal year 1913. set forth era p. 181, i)ost.. 



State jurisdiction over persons on lands acquired not affected except as to pun- 

 ishment of offenses against United States. 



Sec. 12. 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 reservation 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 inhabit- 

 ants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens or be absolved from 

 their duties as citizens of the State. 



Act March 1, 1911, c. 186, s. 12, 36 Stat. 963. 



Payment of percentage of moneys received from each national forest to State 

 for benefit of public schools and roads; limitation of payment to any one 

 county. 



Sec. 13. 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 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 fur- 

 ther, 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. 



Act March 1, 1911, c. 186, s. 13, 36 Stat. 063. 

 Appropriation for expenses of commission; payment. 



Sec. 14. 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 dollars, is hereby appropriated out of any 

 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Said appropria- 



