UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 FOREST SERVICE. 



THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL, 



AMENDMENT NO. 136 INSTRUCTIONS. 



SEPTEMBER 20, 1912. 



Claims. Since the agricultural appropriation bill, approved 

 August 10, 1912, provides that " no land listed under the act of June 

 eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, shall pass from the Forest until 

 patent issues," the instructions on pages 15 and 16 are hereby amended 

 by eliminating therefrom, after the word " Service," in the next to 

 the last line on page 15, the following : 



(e) " This entry was initiated under the act of June. 11, 1906, and 

 no report will be made by the Forest Service, as the Department of 

 Agriculture has no authority to examine and report on this class of 

 claims." 



Also by eliminating from page 16 the following paragraph : 



On notice of final proof on entries under the act of June 11, 1906, 

 the notice will be returned to the register and receiver with the ap- 

 propriate endorsement (<?), and no examination or report will be 

 made. The other two copies of the notice, with the endorsement en- 

 tered thereon, will be sent to the district forester. Before returning 

 the notice to the register and receiver a memorandum of the notice 

 and the endorsement thereon will be made and filed with the settle- 

 ment case to which it relates. 



A. F. POTTER, 



Acting Forester* 



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