20 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



divide the lands acquired under this act into such specific National 

 Forests and so designate the same as he may deem best for adminis- 

 trative purposes. 



Jurisdiction of States. 



Sec. 12. That the jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons 

 upon the lands acquired under this act shall not be affected or changed 

 by their permanent reservation and administration as national forest 

 lands, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the United 

 States is concerned, the intent and meaning of this section being that 

 the State wherein such land is situated shall not, by reason of such 

 reservation and administration, lose its jurisdiction nor the inhabit- 

 ants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens or be absolved from 

 their duties as citizens of the State. 



Five per cent of receipts to States. 



Sec. 13. 1 That five per centum of all moneys received during any 

 fiscal year from each National Forest into which the lands acquired 

 under this act may from time to time be divided shall be paid, at the 

 end of such year, by the Secretary of the Treasury to the State in 

 which such National Forest is situated, to be expended as the State 

 legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and 

 public roads of the county or counties in which such National Forest 

 is situated : Provided, That when any National Forest is in more than 

 one State or county the distributive share to each from the proceeds 

 of such forest shall be proportional to its area therein : Provided fur- 

 ther, That there shall not be paid to any State for any county an 

 amount equal to more than forty per centum of the total income of 

 such county from all other sources. 



Expenses of commission. 



Sec. 14. That a sum sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the 

 commission and its members, not to exceed an annual expenditure of 

 twenty-five thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated out of any 

 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Said appropria- 

 tion shall be immediately available, and shall be paid out on the 

 audit and order of the president of the said commission, which audit 

 and order shall be conclusive and binding upon all departments as 

 to the correctness of the accounts of said commission. 



Appropriation continued. 



Act of August 10, 1912 (37 Stat., 269). 



And in order to carry out the purposes mentioned in section three 

 of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled "An 

 Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or 

 with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of naviga- 

 ble streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands 

 for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers/' 

 there is hereby appropriated and made available until expended so 

 much of the maximum sums mentioned in said section for the fiscal 

 years nineteen hundred and twelve to nineteen hundred and fifteen, 



1 Word " five " struck out and word " twenty-five " inserted in lieu thereof. Act of 

 June 30, 1914 (38 Stat, 415), infra, p. 21. 



