14 MISC. PUBLICATION 135, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
If within a period of four months after such filing the said Sec- 
retary shall not have certified to the Secretary of Agriculture that 
the proposed appropriation of such lands or material is contrary to 
the public interests or inconsistent with the purposes for which such 
lands or materials have been reserved, or shall have agreed to the 
appropriation and transfer under conditions which he deemed nec- 
essary for the adequate protection and utilization of the reserve, 
then such lands and materials may be appropriated and transferred 
to the State highway department for such purposes and subject to 
the conditions so specified. 
If at any time the need for any such lands or materials for such 
purposes shall no longer exist, notice of the fact shall be given by 
the State highway department to the Secretary of Agriculture, and 
such lands or materials shall immediately revert to the control of 
the Secretary of the department from which they had been appro- 
priated. 
FISCAL MATTERS 
Receipts to States. 
Act May 23, 1908 (35 Stat. 260) ; Sec. 500, Title 16, U. S. C. 
That hereafter twenty-five per centum of all money received from 
each forest reserve during any fiscal year, including the year ending 
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be paid at the end 
thereof by the Secretary of the Treasury to the State or Territory 
in which said reserve is situated to be expended as the State or 
Territorial legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public 
schools and public roads of the county or counties in which the 
forest reserve is situated: Provided, 'That when any forest reserve 
is in more than one State or Territory or county, the distributive 
share to each from the proceeds of said reserve shall be proportional 
to its area therein. 
Receipts to Treasury and refunds. 
Act March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1270) ; (86 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 
camping 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 
