* Act of June 7, 1924 (P.L. 68-270, Ch. 348, 43 Stat. 653,
as amended; 16 U.S.C. 505, 568, 568a, 569, 570)
Note-Sec. 1, 2, 3, and 4 repealed by the Cooperative Forestry
Assistance Act of 1978 (92 Stat. 365).
* * * *
Sec. 5. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized
and directed, in cooperation with the land grant colleges and
universities of the various States or, in his discretion, with
other suitable State agencies, to aid farmers through advice,
educa-tion, demonstrations, and other similar means in establishing,
re-newing, protecting, and managing wood lots, shelter belts,
windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth, and in harvesting,
utilizing and marketing the products thereof. Except for preliminary
investiga-tions, the amount expended by the Federal Government
under this section in cooperation with any State or other cooperating
agency during any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount expended
by the State or other cooperating agency for the same purpose
during the same fiscal year, and the Secretary of Agriculture
is authorized to make expenditures on the certificate of the appropriate
State official that the State expenditures, as provided for in
this section, have been made. There is hereby authorized to be
appropriated annually out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, not more than $500,000 to enable the Secretary of
Agriculture to carry out the provisions of this section. (16
U.S.C. 568)
Note-The provisions of sections 3, 4, and 5 of this Act were extended
to the Territories and Possessions of the United States by Joint
Resolution of April 13, 1926, 44 Stat. 250. (16 U.S.C. 568a)
Sec. 6. [Section 6 of the Weeks Law as amended by this
section was further amended by the National Forest Management
Act so that this section is no longer applicable.]
Land Acquisition by Donation
Sec. 7. To enable owners of land chiefly valuable for
the growing of timber crops to donate or devise such lands to
the United States in order to assure future timber supplies for
the agricultural and other industries of the State or for other
National Forest purposes, the Secre-tary of Agriculture is hereby
autho-rized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of the United
States title to any such land so donated or devised, subject to
such reservations by the donor of the present stand of merchantable
timber or of mineral or other rights for a period not exceeding
twenty years as the Sec-retary may find to be reasonable and not
detrimental to the purposes of this section, and to pay out of
any moneys appropriated for the general expenses of the Forest
Service the cost of recording deeds or other expenses incident
to the examination and acceptance of title. Any lands to which
title is so accepted shall be in units of such size or so located
as to be capable of economical ad-min-istration as National Forest
either separately or jointly with other lands acquired under this
section, or jointly with an existing National Forest. All lands
to which title is accepted under this section shall, upon acceptance
of title, become National Forest lands, subject to all laws applicable
to lands acquired under the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961),
and amend-ments thereto. In the sale of timber from National
Forest lands acquired under this section preference shall be given
to applicants who will furnish the products desired there-from
to meet the necessities of citizens of the United States en-gaged
in agriculture in the States in which such National Forest is
situat-ed: Provided, That all property, rights, easements, and
benefits authorized by this section to be retained by or reserved
to owners of lands donated or devised to the United States shall
be subject to the tax laws of the States where such lands are
located. (16 U.S.C. 569)
Note-The provisions of sections 6 and 7 of this Act were extended
to Puerto Rico by Joint Resolution of March 3, 1931, 46 Stat.
1516, subject to the restriction that not to exceed 50,000 acres
of land may be acquired in Puerto Rico under section 6.
National Forest Reservation Commission
Sec. 8. The Secretary of Agricul-ture is hereby authorized
to ascer-tain and determine the location of public lands chiefly
valuable for stream-flow protection or for timber production,
which can be economi-cally administered as parts of Na-tional
Forests, and to report his findings to the National Forest Reservation
Commission established under the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat.
961), and if the commission shall determine that the administra-tion
of said lands by the Federal Government will protect the flow
of streams used for navigation or for irrigation, or will promote
a future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of
the commission before the Congress of the United States. (16
U.S.C. 570)
Note-The National Forest Reservation Commission was abolished
and all its functions transferred to the Secretary by section
17(a) of the National Forest Management Act of 1976.
Lands Reserved For Military
Sec. 9. Where such National Forest is established on
land previ-ously reserved for the Army or Navy for purposes of
national defense the land shall remain subject to the unhampered
use of the De-partment of the Army or Navy Department for said
purposes, and nothing in this section shall be construed to relinquish
the authority over such lands for purposes of national defense
now vested in the department for which the lands were formerly
reserved. Any moneys available for the maintenance, im-provement,
protection, construction of highways and general administra-tion
of the National Forests shall be available for expenditure on
the National Forests created under this section. (16 U.S.C. 505)
Note-Authority in section 9 for the President to establish National
Forests (16 U.S.C. 471(b)) repealed.