road company.

equal to the balance thus resulting shall be paid, as Payment to rall. herein provided, to the said railroad company, its successors or assigns, and to those having liens on the land, as their respective interests may appear. The amount due lien holders shall be evidenced either by the consent, in writing, of the railroad company or by a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in a suit to which the railroad company and the lien holders are parties. Payments shall be made from time to time, as the fund accumulates, by the Treasurer of the United States upon the order of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, Balance of rehowever, That if, upon the expiration of ten years from ceipts insufficient. the approval of this Act, the proceeds derived from the sale of lands and timber are not sufficient to pay the full amount which the said railroad company, its successors or assigns, are entitled to receive, the balance due shall be paid from the general funds in the Treasury of the United States, and an appropriation shall be made therefor. After the said railroad company, its successors or Distribution assigns, and the lien holders shall have been paid the after paying railamount to which they are entitled, as provided herein, an amount equal to that paid for accumulated taxes, as provided in section nine hereof, shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the United States, thereafter all other moneys received from the sales of land and timber shall be distributed as follows:

road company.

lands and tim

A separate account shall be kept in the General Land From sales of Office of the sales of land and timber within each county ber. in which any of said lands are situated, and, after deducting from the amount of the proceeds arising from such sales in each county a sum equal to that applied to pay the accrued taxes in that county and a sum equal to $2.50 per acre for each acre of such land therein title to which is revested in the United States under this Act, twenty-five per centum of the remainder shall be paid to the State treasurer of the State in which the land is located, to be and become a part of the irreducible school fund of the State; twenty-five per centum shall be paid to the treasurer of the county for common schools, roads, highways, bridges, and port districts, to be apportioned by the county courts for the several purposes above named; forty per centum shall be paid into, reserved, and appropriated as a part of the fund created by the Act of Congress approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, known as the reclamation Act; ten per centum shall become a part of the general fund in the Treasury of the United States; and of the balance re- From other maining in said Oregon and California land grant fund sources. from whatsoever source derived twenty-five per centum shall be paid to the State treasurer of the State in which the land is located, to be and become a part of the irreducible school fund of the State; twenty-five per centum shall be paid to the treasurer of the county for common

Payments authorized.

Conditions.

Regulations.

Punishment for false swearing.

Exchange of re

vested Oregon and California

grant lands with

private owners.

schools, roads, highways, bridges, and port districts, to be apportioned by the county courts for the several purposes above named; and the remainder shall become a part of the general fund in the Treasury of the United States. The payments herein authorized shall be made to the treasurers of the States and counties, respectively, by the Treasurer of the United States, upon the order of the Secretary of the Interior, as soon as may be after the close of each fiscal year during which the moneys were received: Provided, That none of the payments to the States and counties and to the reclamation fund in this section provided for shall be made until the amount due the Oregon and California Railroad Company, its successors or assigns, has been fully paid, and the Treasury reimbursed for all taxes paid pursuant to the provisions of section nine of this Act.

SEC. 11. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect; and any person, applicant, purchaser, entryman, or witness who shall swear falsely in any affidavit or proceedings required hereunder or under the regulations issued by the Secretary of the Interior shall be guilty of perjury and liable to the penalties prescribed therefor.

An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange for lands in private ownership lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem bled, That the Secretary of the Interior, in the administration of the Act of June nine, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled "An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled, 'An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in California, to Portland, in Oregon,' approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, as amended by the Acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and to alter and amend an Act entitled 'An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Portland to Astoria and McMinnville, in the State of Oregon,' approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes" (Thirtyninth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and eighteen), is hereby authorized and empowered in his discretion, to exchange lands formerly embraced within the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company

and revested in the United States by said Act for other lands of approximately equal aggregate value held in private ownership, either within or contiguous to the former limits of said grant, when by such action he will be enabled thereby advantageously to consolidate the holdings of timber lands by the United States: Provided, That all lands and timber secured by virtue of such ex- Disposal of acchange shall be disposed of in accordance with the terms and provisions of said Act of revestment.

quired lands.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby Regulations. authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect.

Approved, May 31, 1918 (40 Stat. 593).

An Act To reserve as a part of the Oregon National Forest certain lands that were revested in the United States pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Oregon and California Railroad Company against the United States

grant lands in,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all of the land contained within the grant Oregon National by the United States to the Oregon and California Rail- Forest, Oreg. road Company that was revested in the United States Revested Oregon pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court of the and California United States in the case of Oregon and California Rail- added to. road Company against United States (Two hundred and thirty-eighth United States, page three hundred and ninety-three), and an Act of Congress approved June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, that lies within that part of the Oregon National Forest that is described in the proclamation of the President under date of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and designated as Bull Run National Forest, be, and the same hereby is, reserved and set aside as a part of the Oregon National Forest.

Approved, October 21, 1918 (40 Stat. 1015).

An Act For the relief of certain counties in the States of Oregon and Washington within whose boundaries the revested Oregon and California Railroad Company grant lands are located

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States, upon Oregon and the order of the Secretary of the Interior, shall pay to Washington. the several counties in the States of Oregon and Washington, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise Payment of taxes appropriated, amounts of money equal to the taxes that gon-California would have accrued against said lands for the years 1916 Company lands, to 1926, inclusive, if the lands had remained privately for years 1916 to owned and taxable.

on revested Ore

1926.

in.

Ascertainment of amounts.

Computation, etc., of amounts to each county.

Payment each

year for lands

States.

Such amounts shall be ascertained by using the assessed value for the year 1915, used by the Secretary of the Interior in arriving at the accrued taxes for 1915 and the rate of taxes prevailing for the several purposes in each county, school district, port district, or civil subdivision thereof for each of such years.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain as soon as may be after the approval of this Act the rate of taxation so prevailing. compute the amount to be paid each county for each of such years and issue an order therefor upon the Treasurer of the United States, and file same with his report thereon with the Secretary of the Treasury.

In computing the amounts so to be paid the Secretary owned by United of the Interior shall include all Oregon and California land-grant lands title to which remains in the United States on the 1st day of March of each year.

Payments each year after 1926,

until all charges against Oregon liquidated, etc.

California fund

Vol. 39, p. 222.

Payments charged against Oregon

No other distri

SEC. 3. On or before the 1st day of October of each year after 1926 the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the order of the Secretary of the Interior, shall pay to the several counties amounts of money equal to the taxes upon said lands within such counties, to be ascertained, computed, and reported in the same manner as for the preceding years, until all charges against said "Oregon and California land-grant fund" shall have been liquidated and the said fund shows a credit balance as available for distribution under section 10 of the Act approved June 9, 1916.

SEC. 4. All moneys paid under the terms of this Act California fund. shall be charged against the said "Oregon and California land-grant fund," and all proceeds received from the sale of lands, timber, or otherwise, shall be placed to the credit of such fund until all sums charged against such fund are fully and completely liquidated, and until the United States has been so fully reimbursed no distribution shall be made as provided in section 10 of the said Act approved June 9, 1916.

bution until

United States has

been reimbursed.

Moneys received by counties to be

SEC. 5. All moneys paid and received under the proprorated, etc., as visions of this Act by any county shall be prorated,

though from a taxpayer.

apportioned, and paid to the State, county, port districts, school districts, road districts, and other civil subdivisions of the county in the same proportion as the taxes assessed, levied, and collected by the county for the year covered by such payment are apportioned and paid, to the State, county, and each civil subdivision will receive the same amount as though the money had been paid by a taxpayer for each year.

Approved, July 13, 1926 (44 Stat. 915).

An Act Amending section 5 of the Act approved June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. L. p. 218), so as to authorize the sale of timber on class three of the Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay wagon-road grant lands

nia railroad, etc.,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Oregon-Califor tives of the United States of America in Congress as- revested grant sembled, That section 5 of the Act of June 9, 1916 lands. (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 218),22 and as Vol. 39, p. 220, amended and extended by section 3 of the Act of Feb- amended. ruary 26, 1919 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 1179),23 Vol. 40, p. 1180. be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto

the following paragraph:

agricultural

"And provided further, That the Secretary of the In-Timber sales on terior may, in his discretion and in the manner now pro- lands, authorized. vided for the sale of timber on lands of class two, sell the timber on any of the lands of class three which at the time application to purchase the timber is filed have been subject to entry for a period of at least two years and are not embraced in an application or entry, such sale of the timber not to preclude the disposal of the land under laws applicable thereto, subject to the right of the purchaser of the timber to cut and remove the same." Approved, May 17, 1928 (45 Stat. 597).

An Act To amend chapter one hundred and thirty-seven of volume thirty-nine of the United States Statutes at Large, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session

from revested

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sentence in lines 17 to 20, page Oregon-Califor 220 nia Railroad of volume 39, United States Statutes at Large, chapter land grant. 137, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, reading as fol- sale of timber lows: "The timber thus purchased may be cut and re- lands. moved by the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, within such vol. 39, p. 220, period as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, amended. which period shall be designated in the patent," 24 be Matter stricken amended to read as follows: "The timber thus purchased out. may be cut and removed by the purchaser, his heirs or Rules, etc., for assigns, within such period and under such rules, regula- cutting to be tions, and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, which period and conditions shall be designated in the patent.

Approved, May 17, 1928 (45 Stat. 597).

NOTE. The act of April 23, 1928 (45 Stat. 450), added certain designated revested Oregon and California grant lands, in the State of Oregon, to the Crater National Forest, and provided for the transfer of the appraised value of the lands from national forest receipts to the Oregon-California grant funds.-EDITOR.

For sec. 5 of the act of June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218), see p. 442. 23 For the act of Feb. 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179), see subtitle "Wagon Road Grants," under this title, p. 485.

24 See p. 442.

prescribed.