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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS. I . Cii. 572. 1928 . In national forest district four, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado, $870,957 ; In national forest district five, California and Nevada, $1,024,247 ; In national forest district six, Washington, Oregon, and California, $1,075X3 ; In national forest district seven, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine, Porto Rico, Mary- land, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois, $460,593 ; In national forest district eight, Alaska, $121,497
A ggregate amounts .
In all, for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, and nte t30 angeable al- general administration of the n I ational forests, $6 > 344 > 000 : Provided, is for emerg en- cies . That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of Agri- culture for the necessary expenditures for fire protection and other Lim it, unforeseen exigencies : Provided further, That the amount so inter- changed shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated . Fig hting forest fires .
For fighting forest fires on or threatening the national forests and for the establishment and maintenance of a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the Revestedoregon-cal- United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916, and the lands known ifornia Rail road lands, etc
as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern . Vol. 39, p .218. Oregon Company against United States (numbered 2711), in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, $100,000, which amount shall be immediately available . Airplane patrol . For coop erat ion with the War Dep artm ent, or for cont ract air plan e service, in the maintenance and operation of an airplane patrol to prevent and suppress forest fires on national forests and adjacent Preaao .
lands, $50 000 : Provided That no p art of this ap propriation s hall Purchases forbidden . b e usd for the purchase of land or airplanes . Selecting, etc ., lands Fo r the selecti on, cla ssific ation a nd segr egatio n of la nds wit hin th e for bomestead entries,
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boundaries of national forests that may be opened to homestead settlement and entry under the homestead laws applicable to the national forests ; for the examination and appraisal of lands in effecting exchanges authorized by law and for the survey thereof by metes and bounds or otherwise, by employees of the Forest Serv- ice, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Sur vey in g, etc ., agri- Office ; and for the survey and platting of certain lands chiefly val- cultural lands in na- tional forests .
uable for agriculture, now listed or to be listed within the national Vol . 34, p. 233 . Vol. 30, pp. 34, 1095. forests, under the Act of June 11, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page Vol. 37, p. 843.
233), and the Act of March 3, 1899 (Thirtieth Statutes, page 1095), as provided by the Act of March 4, 191 3, $50,000. Public cam p ground For the construction of sanitary facilities and for fire preventive facilities .
measures on public camp grounds within the national forests when necessary for the protection of the public health or the prevention of forest fires, $40,000 . E,etc. n ts,
su p- pli es,
For the purchase and maintenance of necessary field, office, and laboratory supplies, instruments, and equipments, $130,000 . inv esl aga tin g Wood For investigatio ns of methods for wood dist illation and for the distillation, forest prod- ucts, etc . preservative treatment of timber, for timber testing, and the testing of such woods as may require test to ascertain if they be suitable for making paper, for investigations and tests within the United States of foreign woods of commercial importance to industries in the United States, and for other investigations and experiments to pro- mote economy in the use of forest and fiber products, and for commer- Proviso.
cial demonstrations of improved methods or processes, in cooperation he mp for pulp ma n- ufa ctu res . with individuals and companies, $505,000 : Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of this amount may be used for the investigation by the Forest Products Laboratory of the United States Department
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