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



manent reservation and administration as national forest lands, except so far 

 as the punishment of offenses against the United States is concerned, the in- 

 tent and meaning of this section being that the State wherein such land is 

 situated shall not, by reason of such reservation and administration, lose its 

 jurisdiction nor the inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens 

 or be absolved from their duties as citizens of the State. 



^ Sec. 13. That five per centum of all moneys received during any fiscal year 

 from each national forest into which the lands acquired under this Act may 

 from time to time be divided shall be paid, at the end of such year, by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury to the State in which such national forest is situated, 

 to be expended as the State legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the 

 public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which such national 

 forest is situated : Provided, That when any national forest is in more than one 

 State or county the distributive share to each from the proceeds of such forest 

 shall be proportional to its area therein: Provided further. That there shall 

 not be paid to any State for any county an amount equal to more than forty 

 per centum of the total income of such county from ell other sources. 



Sec. 14. That a sum sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the commis- 

 sion and its members, not to exceed an annual expenditure of twenty-five 

 thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated. Said appropriation shall be immeditely avaihible, 

 and shall be paid out on the audit and order of the president of the said com- 

 mission, which audit and order shall be conclusive and binding upon all depart- 

 ments as to the correctness of the accounts of said commission. 



Approved, March 1, 1911. 



Act of .June 30, 1914 (38 Stat., 415.) 



That section thirteen of the Act entitled "An Act to enable any State to 

 cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the pro- 

 tection 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," approved March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty- 

 sixth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and sixty-three), is hereby amended 

 by striking out the word " five " in the first line of said section, and inserting 

 in lieu thereof the word " twenty-five." 



Amendment relating to outstanding easements. 



Act of March 4, 191.3. 



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 Com- 

 mission and the Secretary of Agriculture, in no manner interfere with the use 

 of the lands so encumbered, 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 occupation, use, opera- 

 tion, 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, easements and reservations, shall be under, subject to. and in 

 obedience with the rules and regulations so exT)ressed." 



1 See ameDdment of June 30, 1914. 



