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rightful claimants such sums as may be found by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to have been erroneously collected for the use of any 

 lands, or for timber or other resources sold from lands located within, 

 but not a part of, the national forests, or for alleged illegal acts done 

 upon such lands, which acts are subsequently found to have been 

 proper and legal; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall make 

 annual report to Congress of the amounts refunded hereunder. 



Transfers from lump-sum appropriations. 



Act of August 26, 1912 (37 Stat., 595). 



Sec. 7. No part of any money contained herein or hereafter ap- 

 propriated in lump sum shall be available for the payment of per- 

 sonal services at a rate of compensation in excess of that paid for 

 the same or similar services during the fiscal year nineteen hundred 

 and twelve; nor shall any person employed at a specific salary be 

 hereafter transferred and hereafter paid from a lump-sum appropria- 

 tion a rate of compensation greater than such specific salary, and the 

 heads of departments shall cause this provision to be enforced. 



Amendment of act, supra. 



Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., 828). 



That hereafter section seven of the Act approved August twenty- 

 sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page 

 six hundred and twenty-six), and any amendments thereto, shall not 

 apply to the payment, out of moneys appropriated or which may be 

 hereafter appropriated in lump sum for the Department of Agri- 

 culture, for personal services of employees engaged in strictly scien- 

 tific or technical work : Provided, That nothing contained herein shall 

 be construed to authorize the transfer of any person employed at a 

 specific salary and the payment of compensation from lump-sum 

 appropriations at a rate greater than said specific salary. 



And hereafter every officer or employee of the Department of 

 Agriculture whose rate of compensation is specified herein shall re- 

 ceive compensation at the rate so specified. 



Purchase of tree seed. 



Act of June 30, 1914 (38 Stat, 415). 



* * * That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may procure 

 such seed, cones, and nursery stock by open purchase, without adver- 

 tisements for proposals, whenever in his discretion such method is 

 most economical and in the public interest and when the cost thereof 

 will not exceed $500; * * * 



Compromise of claims. 



Sec. 3469, R. S. Upon a report by a district attorney, or any special 

 attorney or agent having charge of any claim in favor of the United 

 States, showing in detail the condition of such claim, and the terms 

 upon which the same may be compromised, and recommending that 

 it be compromised upon the terms so offered, and upon the recom- 

 mendation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury is authorized to compromise such claim accordingly. But the 

 provisions of this section shall not apply to any claim arising under 

 the postal laws. 



