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357 sented to federal acquisition "for the purpose of preserving the navigability of navigable streams."27 The blanket consent of Congress is granted to the states to enter into compacts not in conflict with any law of the United States, "for the purpose of conserving the forests and the water supply of the States entering into such" compact.28 Although this is apparently the earliest complete blanket authorization given by Congress in advance for joint state action, no record has been found of compacts consummated expressly pursuant to this provision.29 Amendments and supplements to the Weeks Law provide for the acquisition of lands for timber production,30 for ex- change of land for land or timber,31 and for acquisition of lands for flood-control or soil-erosion prevention.32 Clarke-McNary Act.-In 1924, Congress authorized and directed the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with rep- resentatives of states or of suitable agencies, to recommend such systems of forest-fire prevention and suppression as will adequately protect timbered and cut-over lands "with a view to the protection of forest and water resources" and the contin- uous production of timber on lands suitable therefor.33 As amended, thp Act directs that, in the cooperation extended to the states:8* due consideration shall be given to the protection of watersheds of navigable streams, but such cooperation 87 § 7, 36 Stat. 962, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 516. M § 1, 36 Stat. 961,16 U. S. C. 552. 29 In this connection, see Frankfurter and Landis, The Compact Clause of the Constitution, A Study in Interstate Adjustments 34 Yale L. J. 685, 743 (1925); Dodd, Interstate Compacts, 70 U. S. Law Rev. 557, 561 (1936). 80 Act of June 7,1924, § 6, 43 Stat. 653, 654,16 U. S. G. 515. 81 Act of March 3, 1925, 43 Stat. 1215, 16 U. S. O. 516. See Act of March 20, 1922, § 1, 42 Stat. 465, and § 2 as added by the Act of February 28, 1925, 43 Stat. 1090. * Act of August 26, 1935, 49 Stat. 866; Act of May 11, 1938, 52 Stat. 347; Act of June 15, 1938, 52 Stat. 699; Act of June 25, 1938, 52 Stat. 1205, as amended by Act of May 26, 1944, 58 Stat. 227; Act of March 5, 1940, 54 Stat. 46; Act of June 11, 1940, 54 Stat. 297; Act of June 11, 1940, 54 Stat. 299; Act of June 17,1940, 54 Stat. 402. 88 Act of June 7,1924, § 1, 43 Stat. 653, 16 U. S. C. 564. 84§ 2, 43 Stat. 653, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 565 (Supp. III).

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