SERVICE NOTES FOR MAY. 



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. 



Claims: Cooperation with the General Land Office 



By letter dated April 14, 1909, the Secretary of the Interior amended paragraph 3 

 of his predecessor's letter, dated March 2, 1909. The paragraph as amended reads as 

 follows: 



In all cases where it is alleged rights of way amounting to easements over lands 

 in National Forests are being used for purposes not authorized by statutes under 

 which the same have been granted, or where construction and use is not com- 

 menced within the statutory period, investigation will be made upon report 

 thereof to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the purpose of ascer- 

 taining the correctness thereof and determining upon appropriate action. 



District Foresters should, therefore, report to the Commissioner of the General Land 

 Office any facts which come to their knowledge and which show such misuser or non- 

 user of such rights of way. Copies of such reports should be sent to the Forester. 



Legislation, Federal: Alaska Appeals 



Congress has provided that appeals, writs of error, and other cases from the Alaska 

 district court for the circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit shall be entered 

 and heard at San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle, as the trial court shall determine, 

 unless before the hearing the respective parties shall stipulate at which one of said 

 places the hearing shall be held. 



Approved, January 11, 1909. (Public No. 188.) 



Legislation, Federal: Cordova Bay Land Grant 



Congress has authorized the sale of not more than 2,000 acres of nonmineral public 

 land at the head of Cordova Bay, Alaska, at $2.50 per acre, to the Cordova Bay Harbor 

 Improvement and Town Site Company. Part of this land lies in the Chugach National 

 Forest. 



Approved, February 6, 1909. (Public No. 214.) 



Legislation, Federal: Calaveras Bigtree National Forest 



Congress has authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to obtain title for the United 

 States to certain lands in California containing the big trees scientifically known as 

 Sequoia washingtoniana, such lands to form the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest. 



Approved, February 18, 1909. (Public No. 237.) 



Legislation, Federal: Valdez, Marshall Pass and Northern B. B. 



Congress has extended the time to March 2, 1915, for the completion of the Valdez, 

 Marshall Pass and Northern Railroad to the Tanana River. The line of this road 

 lies partly in the Chugach National Forest. 



Approved, March 2, 1909. (Public No. 296.) 



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