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SEVEN TY-FI RST CONGRESS . SEss . II . CHs. 416, 417. 1930 .

527 CHAP . 416 .-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to enlarge

June 0, 1930. tree-planting operations on national forests, and for other purposes .

[S. 3531.] [Public, No . 319 .9 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the ec re- National Forests . tar of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish forest tree Tree nurseries to be y

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established, for reforest- nurseries and do all other things needful in preparation for planting ation (if . on national forests on the scale possible under the appropriations authorized by this Act : Pro vid ed, That nothing in this Act shall Pro viso . of sec re- be deemed to restrict the authority of the said Secretary under other tary n ot affe cted . authority of law . Sue. 2 . There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal Su ms auth ori zed for o perati on of nurseri es, year ending June 30, 1932, not to exceed $250,000 ; for the fiscal year reforestation, etc. ending June 30, 1933, not to exceed $300,000 ; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, not to exceed $400,000 ; and for each fiscal year thereafter, not to exceed $400,000, to enable the Secretary of Agricul- ture to establish and operate nurseries, to collect or to purchase tree seed or young tr ees, to p lant tre es, and to do all other t hings nec es- sary for refores tation by plantin g or see ding nati onal for ests and for the additional protection, care, and improvement of the resulting plantations or young growth . SE C . 3 . Th e Secretary of Agriculture may, when in his judgment of na os aby p urtham such action will be in the public interest, require any purchaser of ber, for replantmg, etc ., national-forest timber to make deposits of money, in addition to the Out over lands' pa ments for the timber, to cover the cost to the United States of (1) planting (including the production or purchase of young trees) (2) sowing with tree seeds (including the collection or purchase ol such seeds), or (3) cutting, destroying, or otherwise removing unde- sirable trees or other gr owth, on the nat ional-for est land cut over by the purchaser, in order to improve the future stand of timber : Pro-

mos. on total vided, That the total amount so required to be deposited by any pur- amount of deposit. chaser shall not exceed, on an acreage basis, the average cost of plant- ing (including the production or purchase of young trees) other com- parable national-forest lands during the previous three years . Such TTosube cov red p inltoo depos its s hall be co vered into the Treas ury a nd sh all c onsti tute a fund . special fund, which is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, to cover the cost to the United States of such tree planting, seed sowing, and forest improvement work, as the Secretary of Agri- culture may direct : Provided, That any portion of any deposit found coDisposition of excess to be in excess of the cost of doing said work shall, upon the deter- mination that it is so in excess, be transferred to miscellaneous receipts, forest reserve fund, as a national-forest receipt of the fiscal year in which such transfer is made : Provided further, That the buSedl ngs, etc ., for Secretar y of Agri culture is author ized, up on applic ation of the Secr e- tary of the Interior, to furnish seedlings and/or young trees for replanting of burned-over areas in any national park . Approved, June 9, 1930 . June 9, 1930 . CHAP. 417 .-An Act To provide for the purchase of a bronze bust of the late [11 . R . 4849.] Lieutenant James Melville Gilliss, United States Navy, to be presented to the [Public, No . 320.] Chilean National Observatory . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Joint ser hilea NationalOb- Committee on the Library, acting on the advice of . the Commission Bu st of Lieutenant of Fine Arts is hereby authorized to procure for presentation to James Melville G .II ;es for presentation to . the Chilean National Observatory, through the Secretary of the Pe st, P. 3x3 . Navy, in the name of the United States Naval Observatory, a bronze bust of the late Lieutenant James Melville Gilliss, United States Navy .