904 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BEGULATIONS. 



The revision of the regulations for the administration of the 

 National Forests which was commenced in the j)revious fiscal year 

 was prosecuted to completion during the present year, and there was 

 at the close of the year in prcjiaration an appendix to accom])any 

 the foregoing regulations to include the princi})al statutes relating 

 to the administration of the National Forests and such decisions of 

 the courts, the Attorneys General, the Com})troller, and the Solicitor 

 of the de])artment as seem to be essential. From time to time dur- 

 ing the year modifications were made in some of the regulations 

 previously promulgated, and a few additional regulations were pre- 

 pared. 



PROCLAMATIONS. 



Although not heretofore stated as one of the subdivisions of the 

 legal work for the Poorest Service, mention should be made in this 

 report of the work incident to the preparation and examination of 

 proclamations and executive orders for the elimination of lands from 

 the National Forests or for inclusion of additional lands therein. 

 Upward of fifty proclamations and executive orders were either 

 pre])ared or critically examined during the year preparatory to their 

 submission to the Secretary of the Interior for promulgation by the 

 President; and, in this connection, may be also mentioned five 

 proclamations prepared for the reservation of lands for various 

 bureaus of the department upon which to conduct experiments 

 authorized by appropriations made by Congress. There arose dur- 

 ing the year and was pending at its close a contest between the Gov- 

 ernment and claimants involving a considerable portion of the reser- 

 vation in Alaska for the Office of Experiment Stations. The depart- 

 ment has been and will continue to be represented by this office 

 before the Secretary of the Interior in this contest. 



TRESPASS. 



The activity of Forest officers in ascertaining and reporting tres- 

 passes on the National Forests, wliich was specially referred to in 

 my last annual report, was not abated during the present fiscal year. 

 Action by this office was required in 406 cases involving trespasses 

 of the following character: 174 grazing, 106 timber, 84 fire, and 42 

 occupancy. Those of the above trespasses closed during the year 

 resulted in the actual payment by the trespassers of $67,322.54. In 

 addition, several jail sentences followed conviction of defendants in 

 criminal cases. The trespass cases handled during the year will be 

 treated under their separate heads. 



Grazing. — Since the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United 

 States rendered in May, 1911, in the cases entitled United States v. 

 Fred Light and United States v. Grimaud, Carajaus and Inda (220 

 U. S., 523; id., 506), setting at rest the authority of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture in the administration of the National Forests, to pro- 

 hibit the grazing of stock thereon without permit from the depart- 

 ment, stockmen have been somewhat more cautious in trespassing 

 upon these lands and much more ready to settle for the trespasses 



