REFORESTATION AND FIRE TRAILS. 21 



CHAPTER 219. 



An act to provide for the reforestation, the cutting of 

 fire lanes and fire trails on the Angeles national forest, 

 and to make an appropriation therefor. 

 [Approved June 3, 1913.] 



The people of the State of California do enact as 

 follows: 



SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so 

 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro- 

 priated out of any money in the state treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated, which money shall be used and 

 expended for the purpose of cutting fire lanes and fire 

 trails to protect the timber now standing or that may 

 be planted upon the San Bernardino mountains, in the 

 State of California. 



SEC. 2. The state board of control is hereby empow- 

 ered to enter into a contract or contracts with the forest 

 service of the United States government for the purpose 

 of cutting fire lanes and fire trails for the protection of 

 the forest and brush specified in section one of this act ; 

 provided, however, that these expenditures for such pur- 

 poses shall not be in excess of the amount or amounts 

 to be expended by the forestry department of the federal 

 government in collaboration with the specific work 

 named above; and provided, further, that in case the 

 forestry department of the federal government above 

 mentioned does not contribute the fund for said co-op- 

 eration, that the state board of control shall not have 

 power to enter into such contract or contracts with the 

 said department for the expenditure of the said money. 



