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appear as a legend on the map (Form 878). Where a tracing on 

 Form 220 is prepared in the case of land listed by a metes and bounds 

 survey the cover will not be shown on the tracing. The tracing will 

 be made with black waterproof ink only. On surveyed lands where 

 the cover is of considerable value, listing may be recommended in not 

 less than 2^-acre rectangular tracts; otherwise the minimum unit 

 should not be less than \ acres. A metes and bounds survev will be 

 necessary in every case where unsurveyed lands or where only a por- 

 tion of an irregular lotted tract is recommended for listing. Surveys 

 and field notes will not be required when the examiner recommends 

 against listing. The Secretary of the Interior has decided that sur- 

 vey of tracts entered under this act will not be required when such 

 tracts can be described as quarter-quarter sections or lotted portions 

 of surveyed sections, or as a quarter or a half of a surveyed quarter- 

 quarter section or rectangular lotted tract, or as a quarter or a half 

 of a surveyed quarter-quarter-quarter section or rectangular lotted 

 tract. In every instance permanent and substantial monuments 

 must be erected, and they must be plainly marked or chiseled. 

 Posts may be used, but stones are preferable for monuments when 

 they can be obtained. The bearing trees must also be well marked 

 for future identifications. 



Since the survey notes must conform to the requirements of the 

 General Land Office, they must be prepared in accord- 



f ance with the ' ' I nstructions f r Making Forest Sur- 

 veys and Maps." The original and four carbon copies 

 of the field notes will be prepared and transmitted to the supervisor 

 with the report. The examiner must check over the original field 

 notes for typographical errors and date and sign them before forward- 

 ing his report to the supervisor. 



If the land applied for entirely surrounds a spring or watering place 

 that is necessary in the administration of the Forest 

 Land needed or for use of permittees or the public, the listing of so 

 mim&trative 1 use mucn ^ ^ ne l an d as is necessary to protect such users 

 wiUnotVJlistedt should not be recommended, or if the land is found to- 

 be essential for a reservoir site or is valuable for power 

 purposes its listing should not be recommended. If it is found that 

 the withdrawal from entry of the land applied for is essential for the 

 protection of an important watershed to prevent contamination of a 

 city's water supply, or which may be needed for roads or other public 

 uses, or in connection with the removal of timber from National Forest 

 lands, listing should not be recommended. Ordinarily a width of no 

 more than 33 feet should be excluded for a roadway, since the right 

 of way is usually within the best agricultural land recommended for 

 listing; but when a width in excess of 33 feet is necessarv it should be 

 excluded and a statement of the necessity must be made in the report. 

 When such rights of way are needed, they must be excluded from the 

 tract recommended for listing in accordance with the decision of the 

 Secretary of the Interior. In describing the area recommended for 

 listing the following clause must be added to the report: "Except a 

 strip of land 33 feet wide, within the exterior boundary lines thereof, 

 which strip is particularly described as follows (describe the place of 

 beginning with bearing points): Extending thence 16 feet on each 

 side of a line running (give courses and distances) to the place where 

 the end of the strip closes with the boundary of the tract listed." 



