30 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DKPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



boy, $480; one charwoman, $540: one charwoman, $480; one char- 

 woman, $300; eleven charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $2,239,560. 



General expenses. Forest Service: To enable the Secretary of 

 Agricultiue to experiment and to make and continue investigations 

 and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, 

 but no pari of this appropriation shall be used for any experi- 

 ment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; 

 to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; 

 to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their 

 uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber: to 

 seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign 

 species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary 

 buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building erected shall 

 not exceed $650: And provided further. That no part of the appro- 

 priation made by this Act shall be used for the construction, rejxiir, 

 maintenance or use of buildings or improvements made for forest- 

 ranger stations within the inclosed fields of bona fide homestead 

 settlers who have established residence upon their homestead lands 

 prior to the date of the establishment of the forest reservation in 

 which the homestead lands are situated, without the consent of the 

 homesteader; to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, 

 and improve the national forests: to ascertain the natural condi- 

 tions upon and utilize the national forests; * * *. 



A provision, hero omitted, authorizing the exiiort of timber aiul other 

 forest products cut or removed from national forests, is set f(Ulli on 

 p. 2.3. ante. 



to transport and care for fish and game supplied to stock the 

 national forests or the waters therein; to employ agents, clerks, as- 

 sistants, and other labor required in jiractical forestry and in the 

 aduiinistration of national forests, in the city of Washington and 

 elsewheiv: to colhite. digest, report, and illustrate the results of ex- 

 periuients and investigations made bv the Forest Service: to purchase 

 necessary supplies, apparatus, and otHco fixtures, and technical books 

 and technical journals for officers of the Forest Service stationed 

 outside of Washington; to pay freight, express, telephone, and tele- 

 graph charges; for electric light and power, fuel, gas, ice, washing 

 <owels, and official traveling and other necessary expenses, including 

 traveling expenses for legal and fiscal officers while performing 

 Foiest Service work ; and for rent outside of the District of Columbia, 

 as follows: 



I*'or .salaries and field and station expenses, including the main- 

 tenance of nurseries, collecting sernl, and planting, necessary for the 

 use, maintenance, improvement, and in'otection of the national forest* 

 named below : 



AbsnioUa National I-'orest, ^lontana. $7,425; 

 Alamo National Forest. New Mexico, $4,400; 

 Aiigi'les National Forest. Calif(U-nia, $lt'>.774; 

 Apache National Forest. Arizona, $8,610: 

 Arai)alio National Forest, Colorado, $18,080; 

 Arkansas National Forest, Arkansas, $17,910; 

 Asbley National Forest, T^tah and Wyoming, $7,668; 

 Battlement National Forest. Colorado. $7.:W0; 

 Heartooth National Forest. Montana. $7,020; 



