SERVICE NOTES FOR JULY 



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, 



PUBLICATION. 



In future the Field Program will be published quarterly instead of monthly and 

 on the fifteenth of the first month in each quarter. Each issue will be complete. 



LAW. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 

 Washington, D. C., June 9, 1910 



GENERAL ORDER No. 140. 



DUTIES OF THE SOLICITOR. 



The Act of Congress approved May 26, 1910, contains the following provision: 



"Hereafter the legal work of the Department of Agriculture shall be performed 

 under the supervision and direction of the Solicitor." 



To carry into effect this provision of law it is hereby ordered that the legal work 

 of the various bureaus, offices, and divisions of this Department shall hereafter be 

 conducted as follows: 



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4. Forest Service. The legal work of the Forest Service shall be conducted in accord- 

 ance with General Order No. 138, dated January 15, 1910, subject to the following 

 change: On and after July 1, 1910, the positions of Law Officer, First Assistant Law 

 Officer, and Assistant Law Officer, in Washington, will be discontinued, and the law 

 work of the Forest Service in Washington will be performed under the immediate 

 direction of the Solicitor. 



GRAZING TRESPASS SETTLEMENT Payment of $378 has been received from U. F. 

 Diteman in settlement of grazing trespass (civil) by Diteman and Rennie on the 

 Rainier National Forest. The trespassers were arraigned in the United States Court 

 at North Yakima on May 17 on the indictment for criminal trespass and a demurrer 

 was filed by their attorney. The court announced that he would enter an order 

 sustaining the demurrer as soon as he could prepare his opinion. 



FORMS 861 AND 861-G REVISED Letters of transmittal, Forms 861 and 861-G, 

 have been revised, the revised forms having a perforated coupon to be detached by 

 the District Fiscal Agent and retained as a permanent record in his office. With the 



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