SEKVICE NOTES FOR JANUARY. 



These notes contain instructions and necessary information to forest 

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

 reference. 



EDITOR. 

 Agricultural Yearbook 



A limited supply of the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture 

 for 1916, which will be issued probably in April, 1917, is allotted to the 

 Forest Service for its members Copies will be supplied as in former 

 years to district foresters and supervisors for their personal use. 

 Other forest officers may have personal copies by sending their names 

 to the Forester. Requests will be filed and filled in the order of their 

 receipt as long as the supply lasts. Copies will be supplied as usual 

 by the Library for district libraries. 



SERVICE ORDER 47. 



Establishment of Branch of Engineering 



The Branch of Engineering is hereby established in the Washington 

 office of the Forest Service, under the direction of O. C. Merrill, chief 

 engineer, comprising the present office of the chief engineer and the 

 Office of Geography with its component sections of Atlas, Drafting, and 

 Photography. The changes in ol-ganization and procedure involved will 

 be effective January 1, 1917. 



LAW. 



OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



Law Cases in District 1 



United States v. T. D. Farrow and Fidelity & Deposit Co., of Mary- 

 land : Action on timber sale bond. Case closed upon payment by surety 

 company of $2,000, full amount of bond, to cover damage sustained by 

 United States by reason of Farrow's failure to comply with terms of 

 timber sale contract. 



United States v. Mrs. R. P. Galloway : Grazing trespass, civil. Wrote 

 trespasser demanding $49.30, value of forage consumed. Letter was 

 returned unclaimed. Supervisor reported that the woman had left the 

 country and recommended that the case be dropped. Case closed in 

 law. 



United States v. Great Northern Railway Co., Winston Bros. Co., and 

 C. W. Werdenhoff : Fire trespass, civil, Lewis and Clark National For- 

 est. Petition for new trial filed in November, 1916. 



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