164 THE USE BOOK APPENDIX. 



shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a spe- 

 cial fund, which is hereby appropriated and made avail- 

 able until expended, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, 



for the payment of the expenses of said inves- 

 Refumls. tigations*by the Forest Service and for refunds 



to the contributors of amounts 'heretofore or 

 hereafter paid in by them in excess of their share of the cost of said 



investigations; for the employment of fiscal 

 Employees. and other agents, clerks, assistants, and other 



labor required in practical forestry, in the 

 administration of forest reserves, and in conducting experiments 



and in vestigations in the city of Washington and 

 graphs, etc. P " elsewhere; and he may dispose of photographic 



prints (including bromide enlargements), lan- 

 tern slides, transparencies, blueprints, and forest maps at cost and 

 ten per centum additional, and condemned property or materials 



under his charge in the same manner as pro- 

 Printing, vided by law for other bureaus; for collating, 



digesting, reporting, illustrating, and printing 



the results of such experiments and investiga- 

 sup " tions; and for the purchase of all necessary 



supplies, apparatus, office fixtures, law books 

 to an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars; for freight, 

 express, telegraph, and telephone charges, electric light and power, 

 fuel, gas, ice, washing towels, and traveling and other necessary 

 expenses. * * * And the employees of the Forest Service 

 outside of the city of Washington niay, in the discretion of the 



Secretary of Agriculture, without additional 

 Annual leave. expense to the Government, be granted leaves 



of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any 



one year, which leave may, in exceptional and 



meritorious cases where such an employee is 



ill, be extended, in the discretion of the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture, not to exceed fifteen days additional in any 

 one year. 



TIMBER FOB RECLAMATION SERVICE. 



ACT OF FEBRUARY 8, 1905 (33 STAT., 706). 



In carrying out the provisions of the national irrigation law, 



approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred 



Reclamation Serv- an d two, and in constructing works thereun- 



Soiir?orest e rerTe8. der ' tl ? e Secretary of the Interior is hereby 



authorized to use and to permit the use by those 



engaged in the construction of works under said law, under rules 



and regulations to be prescribed by him, such earth, stone, and 



timber from the public lands of the United States as may be re- 



