4 CONTENTS. 



Claims Continued. Page. 



Procedure in district offices 18 



Record of reports 18 



Action upon favorable reports 18 



Report by mineral examiner 19 



Action upon adverse reports 19 



Reference of reports to chief of field division 19 



Notice to claimant and supervisor of reference of report 19 



Reference of cases to assistant to solicitor 19 



Action upon request for additional investigation 19 



Action by chief of field division 20 



Fixing date of hearing 20 



Summary of witnesses .- 20 



Representation of Service at hearings 20 



Costs incident to hearings 21 



Closing claims cases : 21 



Action upon request from Commissioner or chief of field division for 



information or special report 21 



Action upon request from Solicitor for information or special report 22 



Action upon request for report on claim under act of June 11, 1906 22 



Action upon receipt of notice of final proof or application for mineral 



patent 22 



Action upon notice of final proof on entries within proposed elimina- 

 tions 22 



Action upon a claims report received with a trespass report 22 



Action upon receipt of notification of extension of public-land survey. 23 



Correspondence with other bureaus 23 



Requests to land offices for status of lands 23 



District forester's annual report 23 



Procedure in Washington office 23 



Action upon request from Commissioner of General Land Office for in- 

 formation or report 23 



Action upon request from Solicitor for information or report 23 



Appeals by Solicitor from decisions of Commissioner 24 



Final decision on recommendation to institute contest 24 



Action upon receipt of notice of extension of public-land survey 24 



Action upon request from district forester for status of lands 24 



Settlement 25 



Regulations 25 



Applications for listing 25 



General instructions 27 



Purposes of Forest homestead act 27 



Authority and discretion of Secretary of Agriculture. 27 



Areas excepted by the act 27 



Opening agricultural lands to entry 27 



Preference rights of settlement and entry 28 



Survey and notices on unsurveyed land before patent 28 



Residence on land covered by entries 28 



Additional homestead rights to settlers prior to Jan. 1, 1906 28 



Settlement before opening 29 



Policy...... 29 



Determination of mineral character of lands listed 29 



Legal qualifications of applicant as en try man 29 



Small areas listed 29 



Areas which can be listed under the act 29 



Areas which can not be listed 30 



Listing lands affecting a municipal water supply 



Listing lands within reclamation withdrawals 30 



Listing lands within limits of a railroad grant 30 



Listing lands within State school land grants 30 



Listing lands within an abandoned military reservation 



Squatters ' rights 



Listing land covered by a claim 31 



Review or reexamination 31 



Filing in local land office on tracts listed 



Indian allotments under act of June 25, 1910 32 



