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 224 Frorisw. Computation of pay and allowances; service. Retirement. Dependents, pen- sions, etc. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 219, 220-MAY 27, 28, 1940 [54 STAT. the United States Army and shall be entitled to receive the pay and allowances of an officer in the third pay period: Provided, That in the computation of the pay and allowances of such teacher of music all active service in the Army, including service as teacher of music, shall be counted as if it were commissioned service: Provided further, That the said leader of the Military Academy Band shall, at such time as the President in his discretion may direct, be retired as a teacher of music with the rank of captain, and when so retired, shall be entitled to receive the same retirement pay as is now or may here- after be provided by law or regulation for an officer of the Army in the third pay period with length of service computed as stated above: And provided further, That the dependents of said teacher of music shall be entitled to the same pensions, death gratuity, and other benefits as are now or may hereafter be provided for an officer of the Regular Army in the third pay period with the corresponding length of service. Approved, May 27, 1940. [CHAPTER 220] AN ACT May 28, 1940 [S. 229] To authorize the withdrawal of national-forest lands for the protection of water- [Public, No. 6321 sheds from which water is obtained for municipalities, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the National-forest United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever a aetting aside, for municipality obtains its water supply from a national forest and has mupcipal water-sup- entered into a cooperative agreement with the Secretary of Agricul- ture for the protection of the watershed within the national forest from which the water is secured, the President of the United States may, and he is hereby, authorized, upon application by said munici- pality, and endorsed by the governing board of the county or counties in which the lands concerned are located and approved by the Secre- taries of Agriculture and the Interior, to reserve and set aside from all forms of location, entry, or appropriation any national-forest lands, which are covered by such cooperative agreement, subject, however, to valid, existing rights and claims, and such reservation shall remain in force until revoked by the President or by an Act Sio,, un(lcr of Congress: Provided, That nothing herein shall affect the power Federal reclamation of the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw and utilize withdrawn aRestorationof lands lands under the Federal reclamation laws: And provided further, withdrawn. That the President, upon recommendation of the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, may, by Executive order, when in his judg- ment the public interest would best be served thereby and after rea- sonable notice has been given through the Department of the Interior, restore any of the lands so withdrawn to appropriation under an applicable public-land law. Administration. SEC. 2. Lands withdrawn under the provisions of this Act shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture under such agreements for the protection of the watershed as he may make with the munici- pality concerned, and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby author- ized, in addition to the rules and regulations adopted for the admin- Rules, etc. istration of the national forests, to adopt and prescribe such further rules and regulations as he considers necessary to effect the adequate protection of the watershed, including a rule or regulation forbidding persons other than forest officers and representatives of the munici- pality from going on the lands so reserved or making any use whatever thereof.

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