Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 1.djvu/987

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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Cris. 186, 187. 1911. 963 purposes, and may list and describe the same b metes and bounds, Hmit •>H¤w¢s. or otherwise and offer them for sale as homestead; at their true value, to be fixed by him, to actual settlers, in tracts not exceeding eighty acres in area, under such joint rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; and ,,£,tZ.i‘?j°’iSdi°tl°°'°' in case of such sale the jurisdiction over the lands sold shall, ipso facto, _ revert to the State in which the lands sold lie. And no right, title, ,eg“,f,‘*‘},‘{‘§‘,;§’,,"{§,;,j“},§ interest, or claim in or to any lands acquired under this Act, or the ¤¤i¤ Act waters thereon, or the products, resources, or use thereof after such lands shall have been so acquired, shall be initiated or perfected, except as this sepgion prgvided. I und! ed nc. 11. at, su ’ect to e rovisions of the ast reced1n` g sec- me ‘°§§" *’°"‘ tion the lands acquiriad under thig Act shall be permandiitly reserved, gmgly mmm] held; and administered as national forest lands under the provisions of section twenty-four of the Act approved March third, eighteen v°'·“·¤’·“°‘* hundred and ninet -0ne (volume twenty-six, Statutes at Large, page eleven hundred and, three), and Acts supplemental to and amendatory thereof. And the Secretary of Agligcu ture may from time to time ,,,}’n‘:’$““"°“ °*‘”'*‘ divide the lands acquired under Act into such specific national _ forests and so designate the same as he may deem best for administrative purplgses. . Sec. 12. hat the jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over ns n,§}‘:$;*eQ,‘;g{“*°"°“ upon the lands acquired under this Act shall not be affected or changed Uqgdngegagxunn ih: by their permanent reservation and administration as national forest elf °° °x°°p lands, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the United States is concerned, the intent and meaning of this section be' that . the State wherein such land is situated shall not, by reasonliigsuch reservation and administration, lose its jurisdiction nor the inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens or be absolved from their dutiesrrags citgzens of the State} H d d P. t I Sec. 13. at ve per centum 0 a moneys receive uring any ”‘°” mm Q; fiscal year from each national forest into which the lands acquired ggiiiiiy wsunioiiifs aim .. 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 ma prescribe for the benefit of the plublic schools and ‘ public roads ofy the county or counties in which suc national forest is F situated: Promkled, That when any national forest is in more than nivmeii. one State or county the distributive share to each from the proceeds . of such forest shall be proportional to its area therein: Promdedfurther, That there shall not be paid to any State for any county an ,,,{°"“"‘“‘ ‘°°°““‘ amount equal to more than forty per centum of the total mcome of such county from all other sources. _ Sec. 14. That a sum sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the ,_,xQ,§,*§§,§;’,§'}‘,§},‘},‘},,f§ commission and its members, not to exceed an annual expenditure ¤i¤¤· of twenty-five thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated out of any ' mone in the Treasury not otherwise alpprolpriate . Said aplpropria- *°°°““"· tion sliall be immediately available, an sha be paid out on the audit and order of the president of the said commission, which audit and order shall be conclusive and binding upon all departments as to the correctness of the accounts of said commission. Approved, March 1, 1911. · CHAP. 187.-An Act To protect the dignity and honor of the uniform of the ?g”Q’ United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assernbled, That hereafter no proprietor, St§,’;§°"'¤° °‘ U¤*°°d manager, or employee of a theater or other public place 0 entertain- Punishment sm as ment or amusement in the District of Columbia, or in any Territory, ierxi:.1i°¤¤i.li:?iiri°sli xx; the District of Alaska or Insular possession of the United States, ·=¤°*·