26 MISC. PUBLICATION 135, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Src. 5. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized 
and directed, in cooperation with appropriate officials of the various 
States or, in his discretion, with other suitable agencies, to assist 
the owners of farms in establishing, improving, and renewing wood- 
lots, shelter belts, windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth, and 
in growing and renewing useful timber crops: Provided, That, 
except for preliminary investigations, the amount expended by the 
Federal Government under this section in cooperation with any State 
or other cooperating agency during any fiscal year shall not exceed 
the amount expended by the State or other cooperating agency for 
the same purpose during the same fiscal year. There is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated annually out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not more than $100,000 to 
enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of 
this section. 
(Authority Given Under Secs. 3, 4, and 5, Above Extended to Territories by 
Joint Resolution April 18, 1926 (44 Stat. 250) 
Src. 6. That section 6 of the act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth 
Statutes at Large, page 961), is hereby amended to authorize and 
direct the Secretary of Agriculture to examine, locate and recom- 
mend for purchase such forested, cut-over or denuded lands within 
the watersheds of navigable streams as in his judgment may be neces- 
sary to the regulation of the flow of navigable streams or for the 
production of timber and to report to the National Forest Reserva- 
tion Commission the results of such examination; but before any 
lands are purchased by the commission said lands shall be examined 
_ by the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Director of 
the Geological Survey, and a report made by them to the commis- 
sion showing that the control of such lands by the Federal Govern- 
ment will promote or protect the navigation of streams or by the 
Secretary of Agriculture showing that such control will promote the 
production of timber thereon. 
(Authority Extended to Porto Rico by Public Resolution 129, Seventy-first 
Congress. ) 
Sec. 7. That to enable owners of land chiefly valuable for the 
growing of timber crops to donate or devise such lands to the United 
States in order to assure future timber supplies for the agricultural 
and other industries of the State or for other national forest pur- 
poses, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized, in his dis- 
cretion, to accept on behalf of the United States title to any such land 
so donated or devised, subject to such reservations by the donor of the 
present stand of merchantable timber or of mineral or other rights 
for a period not exceeding twenty, years as the Secretary of Agri- 
culture may find to be reasonable and not detrimental to the purposes 
of this section, and to pay out of any moneys appropriated for the 
general expenses of the Forest Service the cost of recording deeds 
or other expenses incident to the examination and acceptance of 
title. Any lands to which title is so accepted shall be in units of 
such size or so located as to be capable of economical administration 
as national forests either separately or jointly with other lands 
acquired under this section, or jointly with an existing national for- 
