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24 MISC, PUBLICATION 135, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
twenty-five thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Said appropria- 
tion shall be immediately available, and shall be paid out on the 
audit and order of the president of the said commission, which audit 
and order shall be conclusive and binding upon all departments as 
to the correctness of the accounts of said commission. 
Easements, reservations, etc. 
Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., 855) 
That section nine of the act of March first, nineteen hundred and 
eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page nine hundred and sixty-one), 
entitled “An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other 
State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the 
watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission 
for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the 
navigability of navigable rivers,’ be amended to read as follows: 
“That such acquisition by the United States shall in no case be 
defeated because of located or defined rights of way, easements, 
and reservations, which, from their nature will, in the opinion of the 
National Forest Reservation Commission and the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, in no manner interfere with the use of the lands so encum- 
bered, for the purposes of the act: Provided, That such rights of 
way, easements, and reservations retained by the owner from whom 
the United States receives title, shall be subject to the rules and 
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture for their occu- 
pation, use, operation, protection, and administration, and that such 
rules and regulations shall be expressed in and made part of the 
written instrument conveying title to the lands to the United States; 
and the use, occupation, and operation of such rights of way, ease- 
ments, and reservations shall be under, subject to, and in obedience 
with the rules and regulations so expressed.” 
CLARKE-McNARY ACT 
Act June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 653) ; Secs. 563 ff., Title 16, U. S. C. 
An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation 
of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, 
in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly 
suitable therefor. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed, in coopera- 
tion with appropriate officials of the various States or other suitable 
agencies, to recommend for each forest region of the United States 
such systems of forest fire prevention and suppression as will ade- 
quately protect the timbered and cut-over lands therein with a view 
to the protection of forest.and water resources and the continuous 
production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor. 
Src. 2. That if the Secretary of Agriculture shall find that the 
system and practice of forest fire prevention and suppression pro- 
vided by any State substantially promotes the objects described 
in the foregoing section he is hereby authorized and directed, under 
