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or regulation promulgated under this section shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more 
than $500 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. 
McSWEENEY-McNARY ACT 
Act May 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 699), Sees. 581 a_i, Title 16, U. S. C. 
An Act To insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for 
the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and 
other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots 
and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to 
secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the 
Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, 
protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to conduct such 
investigations, experiments, and tests as he may deem necessary under 
sections 2 to 10, inclusive, in order to determine, demonstrate, and 
promulgate the best methods of reforestation and of growing, manag- 
ing, and utilizing timber, forage, and other forest products, of main- 
taining favorable conditions of water flow and the prevention of 
erosion, of protecting timber and other forest growth from fire, 
insects, disease, or other harmful agencies, of obtaining the fullest 
and most effective use of forest lands, and to determine and promul- 
gate the economic considerations which should underlie the establish- 
ment of sound policies for the management of forest land and the 
utilization of forest products: Provided, That in carrying out the 
provisions of this act the Secretary of Agriculture may cooperate 
with individuals and public and private agencies, organizations, and 
institutions, and, in connection with the collection, investigation, and 
tests of foreign woods, he may also cooperate with individuals and 
public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions in other 
countries; and receive money contributions from cooperators under 
such conditions as he may impose, such contributions to be covered 
into the Treasury as a special fund which is hereby appropriated 
and made available until expended as the Secretary of Agriculture 
may direct, for use in conducting the activities authorized by this 
act, and in making refunds to contributors: Provided further, That 
the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved in carry- 
ing out the purposes of this act shall not exceed $2,500, exclusive 
in each instance of the cost of constructing a water supply or sanitary 
system and of connecting the same with any such building: Pvo- 
vided further, That the amounts specified in sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 
and 10 of this act are authorized to be appropriated up to and includ- 
ing the fiscal year 1938, and such annual appropriations as may there- 
after be necessary to carry out the provisions of said sections are 
hereby authorized: Provided further, That during any fiscal year 
the amounts specified in sections 8, 4, and 5 of this act making pro- 
vision for investigations of forest tree and wood diseases, forest 
insects, and forest wild life, respectively, may be exceeded to provide 
adequate funds for special research required to meet any serious 
