SERVICE NOTES FOR FEBRUARY. 



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. 



Amendment of Regulations 10 and 77, Use Book 



On January 4 Regulations 10 and 77 (Use Book of 1908, pages 56 and 151) were 



amended by the Secretary of Agriculture to read as follows: 



REG. 10. The Forester and such officers as he may designate may issue, extend, 

 renew, or revoke permits for special uses within National Forests, with such 

 conditions as to area, time, and requirements as they may deem best, and they 

 may make reasonable charges for such permits. 



REG. 77. The Forester and such officers as he may designate may issue such 

 permits, demand and approve such bonds, require such stipulations, and approve 

 and execute such leases and other contracts as are required or permitted by law 

 or these regulations, or as the Secretary of Agriculture is required or permitted 

 to demand, approve, require, or execute in matters affecting the Forest Service 

 and the National Forests. And the Forester and such officers as he may desig- 

 nate may in like manner revoke or cancel such documents for cause or at discre- 

 tion as such documents may respectively provide. 



Fire Trespass: Disagreement of the Jury 



An important case of willfully setting fire to a part of the Klamath National Forest 

 was reported January 16. Through the trespass of Louis R. Webb, September 1, a 

 large area was burned over and much timber destroyed along the boundary line 

 between California and Oregon, both in the Klamath and in the Siskiyou National 

 Forests. The trial was held December 30 and resulted in a disagreement of the jury. 



Property Trespass: Referred to Department of Justice 



The theft of a Government tent from a ranger station at Ash Creek, Cal., by 

 William Wells, October 21, was reported from the Shasta National Forest in January. 

 The case was referred to the Department of Justice, November 27. 



Trespass: Criminal Prosecution 



George Burnett and Earl Carmack pleaded guilty and were fined $25 each in the 

 United States district court, southern district of California, January 11, under section 

 2 of the act of May 5, 1900 (31 Stat., 169: Use Book, 253), for leaving an unex- 

 tinguished camp fire on the Cleveland National Forest. 



George E. Bowers was convicted before a justice of the peace, San Diego, Cal. r 

 for negligently starting a forest fire on the Cleveland National Forest, and was ordered 

 to serve time in jail on failure to pay a fine of $35. 



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