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streams used for navigation or for irrigation or will promote a future 

 timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of the commission 

 before the Congress of the United States. 



Sec. 9. That the President, in his discretion, is hereby authorized 

 to establish as national forests, or parts thereof, any lands within 

 the boundaries of Government reservations, other than national parks, 

 reservations for phosphate and other mineral deposits or water-power 

 purposes, national monuments, and Indian reservations, which in the 

 opinion of the Secretary of the department now administering the 

 area and the Secretary of Agriculture are suitable for the production 

 of timber, to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture under 

 such rules and regulations and in accordance with such general plans 

 as may be jointly approved by -the Secretary of Agriculture and the 

 Secretary formerly administering the area, for the use and occupation 

 of such lands and for the sale of products therefrom. That where 

 such national forest is established on land previously reserved for the 

 Army or Navy for purposes of national defense the land shall remain 

 subject to the unhampered use of the War or Navy Department for 

 said purposes, and nothing in this section shall be construed to re- 

 linquish the authority over such lands for purposes of national de- 

 fense now vested in the department for which the lands were formerly 

 reserved. Any moneys available for the maintenance, improvement, 

 protection, construction of highways and general administration of 

 the national forests shall be available for expenditure on the national 

 forests created under this section. All receipts from the sale of prod- 

 ucts from or for the use of lands in such national forests shall be 

 covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, forest reserve 

 fund, and shall be disposed of in like manner as the receipts from 

 other national forests as provided by existing law. Any person who 

 shall violate any rule or regulation promulgated under this section 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall 

 be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than one year, 

 or both. 



McSWEENEY-McNARY ACT 



Act of May 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 699), sees. 581 a-i, title 16, U. S. C. 



An Act To insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for 

 the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and 

 other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots 

 and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to 

 secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in 

 the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber grow- 

 ing, protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects, and for other 

 purposes. 



That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed 

 to conduct such investigations, experiments, and tests as he may deem 

 necessary under sections 2 to 10, inclusive, in order to determine, dem- 

 onstrate, and promulgate the best methods of reforestation and of 

 growing, managing, and utilizing timber, forage, and other forest 

 products, of maintaining favorable conditions of water flow and the 

 prevention of erosion, of protecting timber and other forest growth 

 from fire, insects, disease, or other harmful agencies, of obtaining the 

 fullest and most effective use of forest lands, and to determine and 



