PRINCIPAL LAWS RELATING TO NATIONAL FORESTS Parl 
est. All lands to which title is accepted under this section shall, upon 
acceptance of title, become national forest lands, subject to all laws 
applicable to lands acquired under the act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty- 
sixth Statutes at Large, page 961), and amendments thereto. In 
the sale of timber from national forest lands acquired under this 
section preference shall be given to applicants who will furnish the 
products desired therefrom to meet the necessities of citizens of the 
United States engaged in agriculture in the States in which such 
national forest is situated: Provided, That all property, rights, ease- 
ments, and benefits authorized by this section to be retained by or 
reserved to owners of lands donated or devised to the United States 
shall be subject to the tax laws of the States where such lands are 
located. 
Sec. 8. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to 
ascertain and determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable 
for stream-flow protection or for timber production, which can be 
economically administered as parts of national forests, and to report 
his findings to the National Forest Reservation Commission estab- 
lished under the act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at 
Large, page 961), and if the commission shall determine that the 
administration of said lands by the Federal Government will protect 
the flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation or will 
promote a future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings 
of the commission before the Congress of the United States. 
Sec. 9. That the President, in his discretion, is hereby authorized 
to establish as national forests, or parts thereof, any lands within 
the boundaries of Government reservations, other than national 
parks, reservations for phosphate and other mineral deposits or 
water-power purposes, national monuments, and Indian reservations, 
which in the opinion of the Secretary of the department now 
administering the area and the Secretary of Agriculture are suitable 
for the production of timber, to be administered by the Secretary 
of Agriculture under such rules and regulations and in accordance 
with such general plans as may be jointly approved by the Secretary 
of Agriculture and the Secretary formerly administering the area, 
for the use and occupation of such lands and for the sale of products 
therefrom. That where such national forest is established on land 
previously reserved for the Army or Navy for purposes of national 
defense the land shall remain subject to the unhampered use of the 
War or Navy Department for said purposes, and nothing in this 
section shall be construed to relinquish the authority over such 
lands for purposes of national defense now vested in the department 
for which the lands were formerly reserved. Any moneys available 
for the maintenance, improvement, protection, construction of high- 
ways and general administration of the national forests shall be 
available for expenditure on the national forests created under this 
section. All receipts from the sale of products from or for the use 
of lands in such national forests shall be covered into the Treasury 
as miscellaneous receipts, forest reserve fund, and shall be disposed 
of in like manner as the receipts from other national forests as 
provided by existing law. Any person who shall violate any rule 
