PUBLIC LANDS 
NATIONAL FORESTS. 
States Forest Service had 
acquired, under the Weeks 
Law, 27,860 acres of land in this 
State which has been made part 
of the White Mountain National 
Forest. This land is all located 
in the County of Oxford and this 
County in 1918 received from 
the U.S. Forest Service $247.08, 
which is twenty-five per cent of 
all money received from this 
Forest Reserve during that fiscal 
year, and in accordance with the 
Section in the U. 8S. Revised 
Statutes, Volume 35, Page 260, 
: which reads as follows: 
= “That hereafter twenty-five 
per centum of all money received 
from each forest reserve during any fiscal year, including the 
year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be 
paid at the end thereof by the Secretary of the Treasury to the 
State or Territory in which said reserve is situated, to be expended 
as the State or Territorial legislature may prescribe for the benefit 
of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in 
which the forest reserve is situated: 
Provided, That when any forest reserve is in more than one 
State or Territory or county the distributive share to each from 
the proceeds of said reserve shall be proportional to its area 
therein.” 
A ss 30, 1919, the United 
