120 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



Per diem and car fare allowances. 



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



That hereafter, when officials and employees of the Department of 

 Agriculture are traveling on official business in the United States, 

 they may be allowed necessary railroad and steamboat fares, sleeping 

 berth, and stateroom on steamboats, livery hire and stage fare, and 

 other means of conveyance between points not accessible by railroad, 

 but in lieu of subsistence and all other traveling expenses they may 

 receive a per diem allowance, to be fixed by the Secretary in each 

 case, in addition to their regular salaries, subject to such rules and 

 regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe. 



That hereafter officials and employees of the Department of Agri- 

 culture may. when authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture, receive 

 reimbursement for moneys expended for street-car fares at their 

 official headquarters when expended in the transaction of official 

 business. 



Reimbursement for property lost, damaged, or destroyed. 



Act of March 4. 1913 (37 Stat.. S2S . 

 That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to reim- 

 burse owners of horses, vehicles, and other equipment lost, damaged, 

 or destroyed while being used for necessary fire fighting, trail, or 

 official business, such reimbursement to be made from any available 

 funds in the appropriation to which the hire of such equipment is 

 properly chargeable. 



Refunds of Forest revenues covered into Treasury. 



Act of March 4. 1907 (34 Stat.. 1256). 



That all money received after July first, nineteen hundred and 

 seven, by or on account of the Forest Service for timber, or from 

 any other source of forest reservation revenue, shall be covered into 

 the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt and there 

 is hereby appropriated and made available as the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture may direct out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated, so much as may be necessary to make refunds to 

 depositors of money heretofore or hereafter deposited by them to 

 secure the purchase price on the sale of any products or for the use of 

 anv land or resources of the national forests in excess of amounts 

 found actually due from them to the United States. 



Additional refund provisions. 



Act of March 4. 1911 (36 Stat.. 1235 



That so much of an act entitled "An act making appropriations 

 for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight." approved March fourth, nine- 

 teen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages 

 twelve hundred and fifty-six and twelve hundred and seventy), 

 which provides for refunds by the Secretary of Agriculture to de- 

 positors of moneys to secure the purchase price of timber or the use 

 of lands or resources of the National Forests such sums as may be 

 found to be in excess of the amounts found actually due the United 

 States, be. and is hereby, amended hereafter to appropriate and to 

 include so much as may be necessary to refund or pay over to the 



