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supervisor should issue a free special-use permit to the applicant if he appears 

 to have the preference right of entry and the land is considered by the supervisor 

 to be chiefly valuable for agriculture, and is not adversely claimed under settle- 

 ment as above defined. 



There should be inserted in each permit the appropriate one of the following- 

 paragraphs, depending upon whether the permit is issued before or after an exam- 

 ination of the land has been made: 



"In the examination of the land under the act of June 11, 1906, to determine 

 its agricultural character, this permit shall not be considered; neither shall it 

 be construed to give the permittee any preference right of entry under that act. 

 This permit shall terminate when entry of the land is made under the act; but 

 if it is shown that the permittee has not the preference right of entry, the listing 

 of the land for opening to entry will be deferred to protect growing crops." 



"This permit shall not be construed to give the permittee any preference right 

 c-f entry under the act of June 11, 1906, and shall terminate when entry of the 

 land is made under that act." 



SILVICULTURE. 



Free Use of Timber by Small Miners 



In granting free use permits Forest officers should make every effort to provide, 

 without unfairness to other interests entitled to consideration and without injury to 

 the Forest, that no prospector or miner working for the preliminary development or 

 exploration of his claim shall be denied the free use of timber needed for these pur- 

 poses if there is not upon the claim a sufficient amount of timber for such uses. Care 

 should also be taken to avoid the marking, for use under a free use permit, of any 

 timber which can not be used by a prospector, or miner, or any other small user, to 

 whom a free use permit is issued. Large users of special material who operate or 

 can operate sawmills may properly be required to take with such special material 

 other merchantable timber which it is necessary to remove for the future productive- 

 ness of the Forest, or to avoid rendering the remaining timber on the area unmer- 

 chantable. Very few cases will arise which will make the enforcement of this restric- 

 tion necessary as to free use permittees. 



Disposition of Copies of Form 861 



There is a conflict between the Manual, page 62, "Class A and Unadvertised Class B 

 Sales," and the instructions on the back of the last edition of Form 861. Hereafter,. in 

 conformity with the idea expressed in the Manual, a Forest officer who has been author- 

 ized by his supervisor to make Class A sales will send to the supervisor two copies of 

 Form 861 for each one issuecl . The supervisor will at once initial and forward one copy 

 to the District Forester and place the other copy in his file. The ranger should keep a 

 fourth copy for his own records. 



Supervisors' Libraries 



Supervisors' libraries will continue to be handled by the Washington office, as before 

 the reorganization. Whenever a supervisor desires to secure a book for his library, he 

 should make a requisition for it on the Washington office. This should first be sent to 

 the District Forester, who will either approve or disapprove it, and then forward it to 

 Washington. Thereafter the matter will be handled by the Washington office, which 

 will correspond directly with the supervisor in regard to the matter. Copies of such 

 correspondence will be sent to the District Forester for his information. In case the 

 Washington office does not agree with the District Forester's recommendations, the 

 matter will be taken up directly with the District Forester and not with the supervisor, 

 and continued until some agreement has been reached . 



Hereafter to be Designated as Nurseries 



In accordance with the filing system used in the District offices, the term "Planting 

 Station" should be changed to the term "Nursery"; for example, "Halsey Planting 

 Station" should hereafter be designated as "Halsey Nursery." 



Form for Extension of Time 



The form of application for extension of time, given on page 16 of the Field Program 

 for December, 1907, is amended as follows: In the second paragraph the words "re- 

 moved from the National Forest" should be canceled and the word "cut" inserted 



