Section 1
SECTION 1. There is appropriated out of the excise tax received by the Commonwealth Government from the United States the sum of one million pesos to be disbursed by the Director of Forestry, with the approval of the .Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, for the reforestation and afforestation of watersheds, denuded areas and cogon or open lands within-forest reserves, communal forests, national parks, and timberlands, sand dunes, and such other areas already''certified as public forest lands, which upon investigation, are found needing reforestation : or afforestation, or needing to be under forest cover for : the growing of economic trees for timber, tannin, oils, gums, and other minor forest products or medicinal plants or for watershed protection, or the prevention of erosion and floods, and the preparation of the necessary plans, estimates of costs, and other data.