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Expense of Examining Civil Service Applicants- 

 Items of expense clearly incident to examinations to establish civil service eligible 

 lists are not properly chargeable to the appropriations of the Forest Service, and 

 should not be included in monthly reimbursement accounts. When such expend- 

 itures have been authorized they should be submitted in separate account on Form 4, 

 and be sent to this office. After approval they will be forwarded to the Civil Service 

 Commission. 



OFFICE OF MAINTENANCE. 



Brush burners can now be obtained from the Property Clerk on requisition. 



OFFICE OF LANDS. 



Act of June 11, 1906. Surveys- 

 Attention is called to the following instructions issued by the General Land Office 

 to registers and receivers of local land offices. Forest officers examining land applied 

 for under the act of June 11, 1906, should explain this important ruling to applicants. 

 It will be noted that only surveyed land is involved: 



DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 



GENERAL LAND OFFICE, 

 Washington, J\ C., March 12, 1908. 

 REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS, 



United States Land Offices. 



SIRS: Your attention is called to paragraph 8 of the regulations of July 23, 1907 

 (30 L. D., 30), relative to the surveying of lands entered within national forests, 

 under the act of June 11, 1906 (34 Stats., 233), and you are informed that surveys of 

 tracts entered under this act will not be required when such tracts can be described 

 as quarter-quarter sections, or lotted portions of surveyed sections, or as a quarter" or 

 a half of a surveyed quarter-quarter section or rectangular lotted ' tract, or as "a 

 quarter or a half of a surveyed quarter quarter-quarter section or rectangular lotted 

 tract. 



The requirements of that paragraph and of the act of June 11, 1906, extend only 

 to unsurveyed lands and to parts of lotted subdivisions of surveyed sections which 

 are not rectangular, and not to platted subdivisions or aliquot parts of such platted 

 subdivisions as are rectangular. 



Very respectfully, FRED DENNETT, 



Commissioner. 



Approved: March 12, 1908. 

 FRANK PIERCE, 



First Assistant Secretary. 



Administrative Sites 



If unsurveyed land which is apparently in the primary limits of a railroad grant 

 is absolutely "needed for administrative sites, supervisors should recommend that it 

 be withdrawn. If such recommendation is approved, the Forester will endeavor to 

 secure full relinquishment by the railroad company. ' , 



Expenses Incident to Hearings 



Supervisors should bear in mind that, under Paragraph 6 of Service Order No. 5, 

 the Forest Service. can not reimburse them for witness fees paid by them on deposi- 

 tions or on hearings before the local land offices, nor for notaries' fees paid by them 

 on affidavits to prove service of subpoenas. All such expenses must be paid from 

 the Land Office funds. The Forest Service can reimburse Forest officers only for 

 their personal expenses for traveling and subsistence incident to hearings. 



When it is not absolutely necessary for Forest officers to attend hearings, or when 

 it is imperative that they remain upon their Forests, the supervisors should request 

 the Chief of the Field Division of the General Land Office to take the depositions of 

 such Forest officers for use at the hearings. 



