SERVICE NOTES FOR AUGUST 



These notes contain instructions and necessary information for 

 Forest officers, and will, therefore, be carefully read and kept on file 

 for reference. 



OFFICE OF THE FORESTER 3 



LAW 

 Claims, Reports 



The instructions in the second Service Note on page 26, July Field Program, are 

 hereby amended by striking out the words "prepared or" in the second line, since 

 reports should be prepared on all claims examined and copies should be kept in the 

 supervisors' files even when they need not be submitted to the chief of field division 

 or District Forester. Said instructions are also hereby extended to apply to claims 

 where requests for reports are received from the Land Department after final proof 

 has been submitted. In such cases, also, no report will be made to the Land Depart- 

 ment when the Forest officers find that the claims are in good faith and that their 

 passage to patent will not interfere with National Forest interests, but the requests for 

 reports will be returned to the chief of field division with the indorsement, "Patent 

 will not prejudice National Forest interests." 



The Commissioner of the General Land Office has informed the Forester that Forest 

 Service officers continue to submit reports which do not show adverse facts hi cases 

 where no notice of final proof or request for report has been issued by the Land Depart- 

 ment. This should be discontinued at once, since it is contrary to the instructions 

 issued by the Forester in March requiring that no claims reports shall be submitted 

 to the Land Department except upon request of that Department, or when claims 

 actively interfere with National Forest interests or management. Accordingly, 

 under all the existing instructions, no claims reports will be submitted to the Land 

 Department, except reports showing adverse facts. 



Fire Trespasses 



The defendants in the following cases pleaded guilty of willfully setting fires upon 

 the National Forests: Umatilla National Forest Tolle A. Spray, sentenced to one 

 year's imprisonment; Siskiyou National Forest Charles Page, sentenced to pay fine 

 of $50. 



Criminal proceedings were recommended to the Department of Justice against 

 John Sullivan and J. R. Rollins, both cases of fire trespass upon the Ozark National 

 Forest. 



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