24 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1913, c. 145. (37 Stat. 828.) 



Expenditure of part of money received from national forests for construction 

 and maintenance of roads and trails; cooperation with State or Territorial 

 authorities. 



'I'liat lioreafter an additional ton per centum of all moneys received 

 from the national forests diirinir each fiscal year shall be available 

 at the end thereof, to be expended by the Secretary of Apiculture 

 for the construction and maintenance of roads and trails within 

 the national forests in the States from which such proceeds are 

 derived; but the Secretary of Agriculture may, whenever practicable, 

 in the construction and maintenance of such roads, secure the cooper- 

 ation or aid of the proper State or Territorial authorities in the 

 furtherance of any system of highways of which such roads may 

 be made a i)art; * * * 



Act Mnrch 4. 1913, c. 145, 37 Stat. 843. 



This is ii ii;iraj;r;i|)h of tlie agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1014, cited above. 



A paragraph In similar terms, but applicable only to moneys received 

 from the national forests during the fiscal year 1912. contained in the 

 agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, is set forth in 

 " Laws Applicable to the United States Department of Agriculture," 

 1912, p. 183. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1913, c. 145. (37 Stat. 828.) 

 Amendment of section 9, act March 1, 1911, c. 186. 



'Jliat .section nine of the Act of ^farch first, nineteen hundred and 

 eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page nine hundred and sixtj^-one). 

 entitled "An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any othei 

 State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the 

 wntoi-.sheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for tht 

 acipiisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability oi 

 navigable rivers," be amended to read as follows : 



Acquisition of lands by the United States not defeated by rights of v?ay. ease- 

 ments, and reservation; not interfering- with use of lands: rights of way 

 easements, and reservations retained by owner subject to regulations, etc. 



"That such acquisition by the United States shall in no case bt 

 defeated because of located or defined rights of way, easements, anc 

 reser\ ations, which, from their nature will, in the opinion of th( 

 National Forest Reservation Commission and the Secretary of Agri 

 culture, in no manner interfere with the use of the lands so encum 

 bered, for the i)urj)oses of the Act : Provided^ That such rights of way 

 easements, and re.sei-vations retained by the owner from whom th( 

 United States receives title, shall be subject to the rules and regula 

 tions prescrilx?d by the Secretary of Agriculture for their occupation 

 use, o|)eration. protection, and administration, and that .such rule: 

 and regulations shall be expressed in and made ]iart of the writtei 

 instrument conveying title to the lands to the United States; and th< 

 u.se, occupation, and ojx'ration of such rights of way, easements, am 

 reservations shall be under, subject to, and in obedience with th< 

 rules arid regulations so expressed." 



Act March 4. 191.'!. c. 14.^ 'M Stat. •S.'"..'".. 



Thcso are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act. under th 

 heading " Misfcll.incoiis," for the fiscal year 1914. cited above. 



StTiioii 9. act M.arcli 1. 1911, c. lS(i. mentionetl and amended by thes 

 provisions, is sot forth in " Laws Applicable to the United States Depart 

 meut of Agriculture," 1912, p. 100. 



