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poses, and may list and describe the same by metes and bounds, or 
otherwise, and offer them for sale as homesteads at their true value, to 
be fixed by him, to actual settlers, in tracts not exceeding eighty acres 
in area, under such joint rules and regulations as the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; and in 
case of such sale the jurisdiction over the lands sold shall, ipso facto, 
revert to the State in which the lands sold he. And no right, title, 
interest, or claim in or to any lands acquired under this act, or the 
waters thereon, or the products, resources, or use thereof after such 
lands shall have been so acquired, shall be initiated or perfected, ex- 
cept as in this section provided. 
Administration as national forests. 
Sec. 11. That, subject to the provisions of the last preceding sec- 
tion, the lands acquired under this act shall be permanently reserved, 
held, and administered as national forest lands under the provisions 
of section twenty-four of the act approved March third, eighteen hun- 
dred and ninety-one (volume twenty-six, Statutes at Large, page 
eleven hundred and three), and acts supplemental to and amendatory 
thereof. And the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time 
divide the lands acquired under this act into such specific National 
Forests and so designate the same as he may deem best for adminis- 
trative purposes. 
Jurisdiction of States. 
Sec. 12. That the jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons 
upon the lands acquired under this act shall not be affected or changed 
by their permanent reservation and administration as national forest 
lands, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the United 
States is concerned, the intent and meaning of this section being that 
the State wherein such land is situated shall not, by reason of such 
reservation and administration, lose its jurisdiction nor the inhabit- 
ants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens or be absolved from 
their duties as citizens of the State. 
Five per cent of receipts to States. 
Sec. 18. That five per centum of all moneys received during any 
fiscal year from each national forest into which the lands acquired 
under this act may from time to time be divided shall be paid, at the 
end of such year, by the secretary of the Treasury to the State in 
which such national forest is situated, to be expended as the State 
legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and 
public roads of the county or counties in which such national forest 
is situated: Provided, That when any national forest is in more than 
one State or county the distributive share to each from the proceeds 
of such forest shall be proportional to its area therein: Provided fur- 
ther, That there shall not be paid to any State for any county an 
amount equal to more than forty per centum of the total income of 
such county from all other sources. 
Expenses of commission. 
Sec. 14. That a sum sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the 
commission and its members, not to exceed an annual expenditure of 
