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 or (2) as a result of a judgment, compromise, or settlement of any claim, involving present or potential damage to lands or improvements, shall be covered into the Treasury and are hereby appropriated and made available until expended to cover the cost to the United States of any improvement, protection, or rehabilitation work on lands under the administration of the Forest Service rendered necessary by the action which led to the forfeiture, judgment, compromise, or settlement: Provided, That any portion of the moneys so received in excess of the amount expended in performing the work necessitated by the action which led to their receipt shall be transferred to miscellaneous receipts.

Dismemination of information

SEC. 8. The proviso in the Act of May 11, 1922, making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, under the item "General expenses. Forest Service, limiting the expenditure of funds for publication (42 Stat. 507, 521, 16 U.S.C. 656) is hereby amended by substituting for the phrase "And provided further," the phrase "Provided further" and adding a further proviso so that the limiting provisions shall read "Provided further, That hereafter no part or any funds appropriated for the Forest Service shall be paid or used for the purpose of paying for, in whole or in part, the preparation or publication of any newspaper or magazine articles but this shall not prevent the giving out to all persons, without discrimination, including newspapers and magazine writers and publishers, of any facts or official information of value to the public: And provided further, That this prohibition shall not apply to scientific or technical articles prepared for or published in scientific publications."

Site purchased 43 Stat. 1133.

SEC. 9. Section 5 of the Act of March 3, 1925, as amended (16 U.S.C. 555), is hereby further amended by changing the amount in the last proviso to $60,000. Approved June 20, 1968. Public Law 85-465

June 25, 1958. [S. 72]

AN ACT To provide increases In certain annuities payable from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes.

Civil Service retirement annuities, increase.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the annuity of each retired employee or Member of Congress who, on August 1, 1958, is receiving or entitled to receive an annuity from the civil service retirement and disability fund based on service which terminated prior to October 1, 1956, shall be increased by 10 per centum, but no such increase shall exceed $500 per annum.

(b) The annuity otherwise payable from the civil service retirement and disability fund to—

(1) each survivor who on August 1, 1958, is receiving or entitled to receive an annuity based on service which terminated prior to October 1, 1956, and

(2) each survivor of a retired employee or Member of Congress described in subsection (a) of this section, shall be increased by 10 per centum. No increase provided by this subsection shall exceed $250 per annum.

(c) No increase provided by this section shall be computed on any additional annuity purchased at retirement by voluntary contributions.