SERVICE ORDER 



Service Order 40 



(Amends Service Order 23) 

 RELINQUISHMENT OF CLAIMS 



MARCH, 14, 1910. 



Hereafter no Forest officer shall under any circumstances 'request a homestead 

 entryman to relinquish his claim or suggest for any reason whatsoever that such a 

 course is desirable. If any homestead entryman voluntarily offers to relinquish his 

 claim, the Forest officer may suggest that the relinquishment be transmitted to the 

 local land office, but should not encourage this to be done. Forest officers who 

 receive by mail relinquishments from claimants must return the relinquishment 

 with the suggestion that if the entryman desires to relinquish he should send it to 

 the local land office. No Forest officer should be a party to a compromise whereby 

 any claims or trespass case is settled by requiring the claimant to relinquish to the 

 Government. 



H. S. GRAVES, 



Forester. 

 (331) 



