18 THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



land office prior to the date when entries <-.m he received, NIK! will be 

 iu the following form: 



DEADWOOD, S. DAK., 



December XO, l<jJO. 

 REGISTER AND RECEIVER, 



Rapid City, S. Dak. 



GENTLEMEN: Since plat of survey of T. 20 N., R. 15 E., 15. II . M., has been approved 

 by the Commissioner of the General Land Office and entries will be received February 

 15, 1911, the Forest Service protests against the acceptance of entry from John JOIK-H 

 for NW i sec. 9, T. 20 N., R. 15 E., B. H. M., on the grounds that John Jones has not 

 maintained continuous residence on and cultivation of the land in good faith as re- 

 quired by law (or has wholly abandoned the land for more than six months last |>;i 1 1. 

 This land was withdrawn for National Forest purposes December 3, 1904, and wu.; 

 included in the Black Hills National Forest February 1, 1905. 

 A detailed report will be forwarded to the district forester. 

 Very truly yours, 



Forest Supervisor. 



The supervisor will then order an examination and report in 

 accordance with the procedure herein prescribed for making reports 

 on claims. 



After a squatter's claim has been declared invalid by the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior further occupancy of the claim by the claimant 

 is trespass, and the supervisor will, in such case, report the facts to 

 the district forester with recommendations for the institution of tres- 

 pass proceedings. 



Supervisors will include in their annual statistical 

 annual 6 reort on re P rt O^ 446 ) to tne district forester, due on 

 claims. * ' J u *y 15, a statement of the claims work on their 



Forests for the preceding fiscal year. 



Action upon When notification of the extension of the public- 

 receipt of notifi- land survey over lands within a National Forest is 

 sion n of 0f ublic" rece i ve d by reference from the district forester, a 

 tend survey. record of the extension will be made in the tract 



book. 



PROCEDURE IN DISTRICT OFFICE. 



All reports on claims made by Forest officers will be submitted in 

 triplicate to the proper district forester. Each case 



01 rC~ TIT r i -i . j i i i ji i 



filed in a separate folder under the case desig- 

 nation. An index card will be used for each case, 

 upon which will be entered the case designation and such notations 

 as may be necessary a white card will be used for agricultural 

 claims and a blue card for mineral claims. 



If upon a review of the report the district forester is of the opinion 



. that no contest should be initiated, he will transmit 



favorable reports! tne re P rt direct to the proper chief of field division 



of the General Land Office with an indorsement of 



"No protest," except that in the case of claims under the mining 



laws which have not been examined for mineral discovery the notice 



of u No protest" will be by letter from the district forester to the 



chief of field division instead of by the transmittal of an indorsed 



report. In such cases the letter will be in the following form: 



CHIEF OF FIELD DIVISION, 



General Land Office, Portland, Oreg. 



DEAR SIR: The Forest Service will enter no protest against the issuance- cf patent 

 for Mineral Survey No. 2444, Mineral Application No. 02588, Ooeur d'Alene Land 



