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ered into the Treasury. All such payments shall be credited to the purchase price the State is to pay the United States for said land, such purchase price to be an amount equal to the total sum expended by the United States in acquiring said lands. Upon payments of the full purchase price, either as herein provided or otherwise, title to said lands shall be transferred from the Federal Government to the State, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to take such action and incur such expenditures, as may be necessary to effectuate such transfer.

(i) Upon the request of the State concerned, any agreement made pursuant to this Act may be terminated by the Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture may, with the consent and approval of the National Forest Reservation Commission, after due notice given the State and an opportunity for hearing by said Commission, terminate any such agreement for violations of its terms and/or the provisions of this Act. If such agreement is terminated, the United States shall reimburse the State for so much of the State funds as have been expended in the administration, development, and management of the lands involved as the Secretary of Agriculture may decide to be fair and equitable.

(j) The State shall furnish the Secretary of Agriculture with such annual, periodic, or special reports as he may require respecting the State's operations under its agreement with him.

(k) When a State or political unit thereof acquires under tax delinquency laws title to forest lands without cost to the United States and which lands are included within a State or other public forest, the Secretary of Agriculture, on behalf of the Federal Government, may contribute annually out of any funds made available under this Act not to exceed one-half the cost of administering, developing, and managing said lands.

SEC. 3. For the purposes of this Act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, a sum or sums out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed $5,000,000, as Congress may from time to time appropriate.

Approved, August 29, 1935.

[CHAPTER 226-1ST SESSION]

[H. R. 4728]

AN ACT

To authorize cooperation in the development of farm forestry in the States and Territories, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to aid agriculture, increase farm-forest income, conserve water resources, increase employment, and in other ways advance the general welfare and improve living conditions on farms through reforestation and afforestation in the various States and Territories, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cooperation with the land-grant colleges and universities and State forestry agencies, each within its respective field of activities, according to the statutes, if any, of the respective States, wherever such agencies can and will cooperate, or in default of such cooperation to act directly, to produce or procure and distribute forest trees and shrub planting stock; to make necessary investigations; to advise farmers regarding the establishment, protection, and management of farm forests and forest and shrub plantations and the harvesting, utilization, and marketing of the products thereof; and to enter into cooperative agreements for the establishment, protection, and care of farm- or other forest-land tree and shrub plantings within such States and Territories; and, whenever suitable Government-owned lands are not available, to lease, purchase, or accept donations of land and develop nursery sites for the production of such forest planting stock as is needed to effectuate the purposes of this Act, but not including ornamental or other stock for landscape plantings commonly grown by established commercial nurserymen, and no stock grown in Government and cooperating nurseries shall be allowed to enter regular trade channels. No cooperative reforestation or afforestation shall be undertaken pursuant to this Act unless the cooperator makes available without charge the land to be planted. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually not to exceed $2,500,000 for carrying out the purposes of this Act. This Act shall be known as the Cooperative Farm Forestry Act.

Approved, May 18, 1937.

(37)

(H. R. 8271]

AN ACT

To amend the Act entitled "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 reforesta tion, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics and related subjects, and for other purposes", approved May 22, 1928.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act of May 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 699; U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, sec. 581a), be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:

"The Secretary of Agriculture is further authorized to establish and maintain a forest experiment station in the Great Plains and prairie States, to be known as the 'Great Plains Forest Experiment Station', and to acquire by purchase, condemnation, donation, or otherwise such real property or interest therein as in his judgment is required for the use of said station, including the making of necessary expenditures in examining, appraising, and surveying any such property and in doing all things incident to perfecting title thereto in the United States. There is authorized to be appropriated annually such additional sums as may be required for the purposes of this paragraph."

Approved, June 15, 1936.

(38)

[H. R. 6544]

AN ACT

To conserve the water resources and to encourage reforestation of the watersheds of Santa Barbara County, California, by the withdrawal of certain public land, included within the Santa Barbara National Forest, California, from location and entry under the mining laws.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the public lands of the United States, within the boundaries of the Sant Barbara National Forest, located in the State of California and hereinafter described, are hereby withdrawn from location or entry under the mining laws of the United States:

All Government lands in sections 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33, township 7 north, range 24 west, San Bernardino meridian."

All Government lands in sections 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, township 7 north, range 25 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in sections 7 to 36, inclusive, township 7 north, range 26 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in sections 1 to 36, inclusive, township 7 north, range 27 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, and 36, township 7 north, range 28 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in sections 5, 8, and 17, township 6 north, range 24 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in township 6 north, range 25 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in township 6 north, range 26 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in township 6 north, range 27 west, San Bernardino meridian, except sections 19, 30, and 31.

A. Government lands in sections 1, 2, and 12, township 6 north, range 28 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in sections 6, 7, 18, 19, 30, and 31, township north, range 24 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in township 5 north, range 25 west, San Bernardino meridian.

All Government lands in township 5 north, range 26 west, San Bernardino meridian, except in sections 31 and 32.

All Government lands in sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, township 5 north, range 27 west, San Bernardino meridian: Provided, That this Act shall not defeat or affect any lawful right which has already attached under the mining laws and which is hereinafter maintained in accordance with such laws: Provided further, That the President upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by Executive order, when in his judgment the public interest would

best be served thereby, and after reasonable notice has been given through the Department of the Interior, restore to location and entry under the mining laws, any of the lands hereby withdrawn therefrom: Provided further, That any person desiring to locate and enter upon any such withdrawn lands under the mineral land laws may make such location and entry upon a showing satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture that the lands to be entered are chiefly valuable for minerals. Approved, April 20, 1936.

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