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Receipts to Treasury and refunds. 



Act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1270) ; (36 Stat. 1253) ; sec. 499, title 16, U. S. C. 



All money received by or on account of the Forest Service for 

 timber, or from any other source of national-forest revenue, includ- 

 ing moneys received from sale of products from or use of lands in 

 national forests created under section 471 (b) of this title, and 

 moneys received on account of permits for hunting, fishing, or camp- 

 ing on lands acquired under authority of sections 513 to 517 and 521 

 of this title, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States 

 as a miscellaneous receipt, and except as provided in sections 500 and 

 501 of this title, there is appropriated and made available as the 

 Secretary of Agriculture 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 any land or resources of the national forests in excess of 

 amounts found actually due from them to the United States and also 

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



Expenditures from receipts for roads and trails. 



Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843) ; sec. 501, title 16, U. S. C. 



That hereafter an additional ten per centum of all moneys received 

 from the national forests during each fiscal year shall be available 

 at the end thereof, to be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 for the construction and maintenance of roads and trails within the 

 national forests in the States from which such proceeds are derived ; 

 but the Secretary of Agriculture may, whenever practicable, in the 

 construction and maintenance of such roads, secure the cooperation 

 or aid of the proper State or Territorial authorities in the further- 

 ance of any system of highways of which such roads may be made 

 a part. 



Reimbursement for equipment. 



Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843) ; sec. 502, title 16, U. S. C. 



The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to reimburse 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 fund in the appro- 

 priation to which the hire of such equipment is properly chargeable. 



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