12 Department Circular 313, U. S, Dept. of Agriculture. 



10 west, in Winston County; land in the eastern tier of sections, 

 townsliips 7 and 8 south, range 10 west, in Franklin County. 

 Headquarters, Moulton, xVla. 



OZARK UNIT, ARKANSAS. 



Lands in Arkansas within the boundaries of the Ozark National 

 Forest, being within the counties of Baxter, Stone, Pope, Searcy. 

 Newton, Johnson, P^ranklin, Crawford, and Washington. 



Headquarters, Russellville, Ark. 



ARKANSAS UNIT, ARKANSAS. 



Lands in Arkansas within the boundaries of the Arkansas National 

 Forest, being within the counties of Perry, Saline, (xarland. Mont- 

 gomery, Pike, Howard, Polk, Yell, Logan,* Sebastian, and Scott. 



Headquarters, Hot Springs National Park, Ark. 



ACT OF MARCH 1, 1911. 



(36 Stat., 961.) 



THE WEEKS LAW. 



AN ACT To enal)l(' any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with Ihe 

 United States, for the protection of the watersheds O'f naviga.l>le streams, and to appoint 

 a commission for the acquisition of lands for tlie purpose of con.serving the navigability 

 of navigable rivers. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate a)id House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Conf/ress assembled. That the consent of the Congress of tiie 

 L nited States is hereby given to each of the several States of the Union to enter 

 into any agreement or compact, not in contiict with any law of the United 

 States, with any other State or States for the purpose of conserving the forests 

 and the water supply of the State entering into such agreement or compact. 



Sec. 2. That the sura of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated 

 and made available until expended, out of any moneys in the National Treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to coop- 

 erate witii any State or group of States, when requested to do so. in the protec- 

 tion from fire of the forested watersheds of navigable streams ; and the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture is hereby authorized, and on such conditions as he deems 

 wise, to stipulate and agree with any State or group of States to cooperate in 

 the organization and maintenance of a system of fire protectitm on any private 

 or State forest lands within sucH State or States and situated upon the water- 

 shed of a navigable river : Provided. That no such stipulation or agreement 

 shall be made with any State which has not provided by law for a system of 

 forest-flre protection : Provided further. That in no case shall the amount ex- 

 ]>ended in any State exceed in any fiiscal year the amount appropriated by 

 that State for the same purpose during the same fiscal .vear. 



Sec. 3. That there is hereby appropriated, for the fiscal year ending .June 

 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, tlie sum of one million dollars, and for 

 each fiscal year thereafter a sum not to exceed two million dollars for use in 

 the examination, survey, and acquirement of lands located on the headwaters of 

 navigable streams or those which are being or which may be developed for 

 navigable purposes: Provided. That the provisions of this section shall expire 

 by limitation on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and fifteen. 



Sec. 4. That a commission, to be known as the National Forest Reservation 

 Connnis.><i(»n. consisting of the Secretary of War, the Secr-jtary of the Interior, 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, and two members of the Senate, to be selected by 

 the President of the Senate, and two meml)ers of the House of Representatives, 

 to l)e selected by the Speaker, is hereby created and authorized to consider and 

 j)ass upon such lands as nuiy be ri'conimended for purchase as provided in sec- 

 tion six of this Act, and to fix the price or prices at which such lands may be 



