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Act of July 28, 1914 (38 Stat, 556), authorizes the exchange of 

 certain lands within the Fishlake National Forest, Utah. 



Act of September 19, 1914 (38 Stat., 714), provides for the pro- 

 tection of the water supply of Salt Lake City, Utah, Wasatch Na- 

 tional Forest. 



GAME REFUGES. 



Act of January 24, 1905 (33 Stat., 614), authorizes the President 

 to set aside lands within the Wichita National Forest as a game 

 refuge and declares that the purpose of the act is to protect the land 

 of the United States from trespass, and not to interfere with local 

 game laws, etc. Penal provisions of the act will be found under 

 " Trespass," page 109, post. 



Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat., 607), relating to the Grand Canyon 

 game refuge contains provisions substantially like those of the act 

 next above cited. 



DECISION. 



The Secretary of the Interior [now Agriculture] can not, without 

 express authority of law, prescribe rules and regulations by which 

 the National Forests may be made refuges for game, or by which 

 the hunting, killing, or capture of game thereon may be forbidden. 

 As to the National Forests in general, no such authority is conferred 

 either by the act of June 4, 1897, or any other provision of law. (23 

 Op. Atty. Gen., 589.) 



WEEKS LAW AND AMENDMENTS. 



Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat, 961), to enable any State to cooperate with any 

 other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the 

 watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acqui- 

 sition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable 

 rivers. 



That the consent of the Congress of the United States is hereby 

 given to each of the several States of the Union to enter into any 

 agreement or compact, not in conflict with any law of the United 

 States, with any other State or States for the purpose of conserving 

 the forests and the water supply of the States entering into such 

 agreement or compact. 



Cooperation with States for fire protection. 



Sec. 2. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby 

 appropriated and made available until expended, out of any moneys 

 in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with any State or group of 

 States, when requested to do so, in the protection from fire of the 

 forested watersheds of navigable streams ; and the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture is hereby authorized, and on such conditions as he deems wise, 

 to stipulate and agree with any State or group of States to cooperate 

 in the organization and maintenance of a system of fire protection on 

 any private or State forest lands within such State or States and 

 situated upon the watershed of a navigable river : Provided, That no 

 such stipulation or agreement shall be made with any State which has 

 not provided by law for a system of forest-fire protection : Provided 



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