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# 16 U.S.C. § 253 - Apportionment of income among counties

## Text

The income of each county receiving moneys from the Olympic National Forest, under section 500 of this title, shall be proportional to the total area of each county in the Olympic National Forest and the Olympic National Park combined.

(June 29, 1938, ch. 812, § 3, 52 Stat. 1242.)