Chapter 105. To amend the Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and twenty-six), entitled “An Act to create the Calaveras Big Tree National Forest, and for other purposes.”May 7, 1912.[[H
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CHAP. 105.— An Act To amend the Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and twenty-six), entitled “An Act to create the Calaveras Big Tree National Forest, and for other purposes.”May 7, 1912.[[H. R. 12211](/us/bill/62/hr/12211).][[Public, No. 146](/us/pl/62/146).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Calaveras Big Tree National Forest, Cal.Vol. 35. p. 627, amended.
That the Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and twenty-six), entitled “An act to create the Calaveras Big Tree National Forest, and for other purposes,” be amended as follows: Conveyance of lands for, from owners.Omit therefrom the portion of the Act beginning with the word “any” at the end of the twelfth line on page six hundred and twenty-seven thereof to and including the word “or” in the twentieth line of said page, and substitute therefor the following:
“one or both of Lands in exchange.the following ways:
(1)They may be given the right to file with the Secretary of the Interior, within sixty days after such conveyance, selections of surveyed, unappropriated, nonmineral public lands or National forest lands added.of nonmineral national forest lands, and if the lands so selected shall be found subject to selection and of the actual value in lands and stumpage substantially equal to that of the lands and stumpage conveyed they may be patented to said owners in lieu of the conveyed *Proviso*.Approval of Secretary of Agriculture.lands: *Provided, however*, That in any case where any part of the lands selected is national forest land, the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture shall first be secured with respect to such part, or (2). ” Sec. 2. Appropriation for expenses. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes of fully carrying out the provisions of this Act. Approved, May 7, 1912.