SERVICE NOTES FOR NOVEMBER 



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 



LAW 

 Advice 



On September 15 the Secretary of the Interior received from the office of the Attor- 

 ney-General an opinion, the substance of which is as follows: Where certain unsur- 

 veyed public lands are withdrawn on the application of the governor under the act 

 of August 28, 1904, with a view to selecting specific tracts thereof as indemnity lands 

 as soon as the survey is made the inclusion of the lands in a National Forest before 

 survey defeats the State's preferential right of selection, which would otherwise 

 have been secured by the governor's application. 



On September 30, in a letter to Attorney-General Galen, cf Montana, the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior rendered an opinion, the substance of which is a? follows: The 

 grant of sections 10 and 36 to the State of Montana for public-school purposes, while 

 a grant in prxsenti, does not attach to any particular tract of land until such land is 

 surveyed and, if, prior to such survey that !s, prior to the date when such survey 

 is officially approved Congress or a government officer acting under authority of 

 Congress makes other disposal of that particular tract by including it in a Forest 

 Reserve, the title of the State thereto does not attach until the reservation is extin- 

 guished and the land is restored to the public domain. 



Indictment for Grazing without Permit- 

 On October 8 the Federal Grand Jury for the Eastern District of Washington 

 returned an indictment against U. F. Diteman and Robert Rennie for grazing sheep 

 upon the Rainier National Forest without a permit. 



OPERATION 



Accounts Payable from More than One Appropriation 



Where a Form 4 or Form A voucher is payable from more than one appropriation, 

 the appropriation involved should be indicated for each item in the account. The 

 initials only of the appropriation need be used, as "GE" for "Genera! Expenses," 

 "I" for "Improvement," "C" for "Cooperative," etc. The initial letters should be 

 placed on the margin on a line with the amount. It will not be necessary to indi- 

 cate each item, but it will be sufficient to have the notation made only when the 



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