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CHANGES IN PERSONNEL. 



The number of olSicers and emploj'ees on the rolls of the depart- 

 ment July 1, 1911, as shown by the report of the Appointment Clerk, 

 is 224 in excess of the number reported for the fiscal year 1910. The 

 employees located in Washington number 2,514, while 10,190 are 

 employed elsewhere. During the year 57,884 changes of every de- 

 scription were made, including the appointment of 33,709 fire fighters 

 in the Forest Service, employed for brief periods, none exceeding 

 six months. The number of persons receiving probationary ap- 

 pointment (equivalent to absolute appointment if the appointee is 

 retained in the service after the probationary period) was 1,168. 

 Ninety persons were reinstated and 60 were transferred from other 

 departments; 694 resigned; 56 died in the service; and 42 were dis- 

 missed because of misconduct. 



On July 1, 1911, there were 4,068 officers and employees on the 

 statutory roll (comprising positions specifically appropriated for by 

 Congress), and 8,636 were paid from lump-sum appropriations, 

 making a total enrollment of 12,704, not including the temporary 

 employees appointed after January 1, 1911, nor temporary field 

 employees. 



OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



The fiscal year 1911 marked the period of the greatest activity in 

 the Office of the Solicitor since its creation in 1905. During the 

 year the administrative machinery for carrying out the several regu- 

 lative acts of Congress enforced through the department has in- 

 creased in efficiency. The duties of the department under these acts 

 are becoming more sharply defined and better understood ; as a result 

 the duties and responsibilities of the Office of the Solicitor have 

 been very largely increased. The more important of these acts of 

 Congress are the statutes regarding the occupancy and use of the 

 National Forests, the meat-inspection law, the food and drugs act, 

 the 28-hour law, the live-stock quarantine act, and the Lacey Act. 

 The normal expansion along existing lines of activity in other 

 branches of the department has also contributed greatly to the vol- 

 ume of the work of this office. The legal work of the Forest Service 

 was placed under the immediate direction of the Solicitor on Janu- 

 ary 15, 1910, and in the report for the fiscal year 1911 there is in- 

 cluded for the first time a statement of the legal work performed 

 by this office on behalf of the Forest Service during a full fiscal year. 



WORK FOR FOREST SERVICE. 



The lecal work transacted on behalf of the Forest Service falls 

 naturally into the following divisions: Opinions, contracts, claims, 

 regulations, trespass cases, general litigation, and hydroelectric 



