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 1204 Boat for Alaska. Aggr egat e amo unt. Provisos. Interchangeable al- lotments for emergen- cie s. Limit. Figh ting fores t fir es. Rev est ed Or eg on- California lands, etc. Vol. 49, p. 218. Airplane patrol. Proviso. Purchases forbidden. Selecting, etc ., lands for homestead entries, etc. Surveying, etc ., agri- cultural lands on na- tiona l for ests. Vol. 34, p. 233; Vol. 30, pp. 34, 1095; Vol. 37, p. 843 . U, S. Code, pp. 421- 424 . Public camp ground facilities. Equipments, su p- plies, etc. Seed, tree planting, etc. Appra isin g timbe r, etc ., for sale. SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 227. 1929 . In national forest district 5, California and Nevada, $1,105,807 In national forest district 6, Washington, Oregon, and California, $1,125,913 ; W In national forest district 7, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Geor- gia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vir- nia, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine, Porto Rico, Maryland, ew York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Vermont, and Illinois, $504,177 ; In national forest district 8, Alaska, $142,907 : Provided, That of the sum herein appropriated $16,000 shall be available only for the purchase or construction of a boat for use in Alaska ; In all, for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, and general administration of the national forest, $6,703,000 : Pr o vi d ed , That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture for the necessary expenditures for fire protection and other unforseen exigencies : Provided further, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. For fighting forest fires on or threatening the national forests and for the establishment and maintenance of a patrol to prevent tres- pass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916 (39 Stat ., p. 218), and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern 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. For cooperation with the War Department, or for contract air- plane service, in the maintenance and operation of an airplane patrol to prevent and suppress forest fires on national forests and adjacent lands, $50,000 : Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of land or airplanes. For the selection, classification, and segregation of lands within the 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 Service, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office ; and for the survey and platting of certain lands, chiefly valuable for agriculture, now listed or to be listed within the national forests, under the Act of June 11, 1906 (U. S. C., pp . 423, 424, sees . 506-509), the Act of August 10, 1912 (U. S. C., p. 423, sec. 506), and the Act of March 3, 1899 (U. S. C., p. 421, sec. 488), as provided by the Act of March 4, 1913 (U. S. C., p. 424, sec. 512), $52,500. For the construction of sanitary facilities and for fire-preventive measures on public camp grounds within the national forests when necessary for the protection of the public health or the prevention of forest fires, $50,000. For the purchase and maintenance of necessary field, office, and laboratory supplies, instruments, and equipments, $130,000. Planting on national forests : For the purchase of tree seed, cones, and nursery stock, for seeding and tree planting within national forests, and for experiments and investigations necessary for such seed ing and tree pla ntin g, $ 210, 000. R econ nais sanc e, n atio nal fore sts : For estimating and appraising timber and other resources on the national forests preliminary to disposal by sale or to the issue of occupancy permits, and for emer- gency expenses incident to their sale or use, $108,550.

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