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direct, for the protection, administration, improvement, and exten- 

 sion of Federal forest reserves. 



NOTE. The Department of Agriculture and the Department 

 of the Interior have concurred in the opinion that the above 

 law divides the jurisdiction over forest reserves as follows: 

 All grants of rights or privileges within forest reserves, which 

 do not affect the title to the land or cloud the fee, are under 

 the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture. All grants 

 which dispose of title to or give an easement running with 

 the land are under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 

 Interior. 



AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1907. 



General expenses, Forest Service: To enable the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to experiment and to make and 

 Experiments and continue investigations and report on forestrv, 

 investigations in for- f orest reserv es, forest fires, and lumbering; to 

 advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper 

 Timber testing. car e of the same; to investigate and test Ameri- 

 can timber and timber trees, and their uses, 

 and methods for the preservative treatment of 

 timber; to seek, through investigations and 

 Tree planting. the planting of native and foreign species, suit- 



able trees for the treeless regions; to erect 

 necessary buildings: Provided, That the cost of 

 Cost of buildings. an y building erected shall not exceed one thou- 

 sand dollars; for all expenses necessary to pro- 

 tect, administer, improve, and extend the 

 Forest reserves. national forest reserves, and officials of the 

 Forest Service designated by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture shall, in all ways that are practica- 

 State stock, game, ble, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the 

 States or Territories with regard to stock, for 

 the prevention and extinguishment of forest 

 fires, and for the protection of fish and game. 

 That the forest-reserve special fund provided for in section five 

 of the act approved February first, nineteen 

 cififund. rei espe " hundred and five, entitled "An act providing 

 for the transfer of forest reserves from the 

 Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture," 

 shall continue until otherwise provided by law; but after June 

 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall notbe expended 

 except in accordance with specific estimates of expenditures to be 

 made from said fund for the succeeding fiscal year, to be submitted 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture with the estimates of appropria- 

 tion in the annual Book of Estimates. 



