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to the Trinity. The proclamation of December 23 eliminated 70,967 acres from and 

 added 182,050 acres to the Modoc. The proclamation of December 30 eliminated 

 6,107 acres from and added 38,709 acres to the Lassen. 



In District 6 the Executive order of October 28 eliminated 12,800 acres from (he 

 Chugach, Alaska. The proclamation of December 10 eliminated 17,610 acres from 

 the Chelan, Wash. 



There were no changes in District 1. 



Service Uniform 



The contract with The Fechheimer Brothers Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 for the Service uniform has been renewed for the calendar year 1911. A supply of 

 the circulars will be sent each District Forester describing each article of the uniform 

 and stating the price covered in the contract. An initial supply of these circulars 

 will be sent each supervisor from the District office, and additional copies may be 

 secured later upon request to the District Forester. Rangers and guards desiring 

 copies of these circulars will secure them upon request to their supervisors. 



Employees Killed or Injured in Forest Fires 



In connection with righting forest fires during the past summer, 79 employees of 

 the Forest Service were killed in District 1, and 124 were injured. In District 6 one 

 Forest Service employee was killed and one injured. 

 Maximum Sum for Horse Feed 



The regulation concerning the purchase of horse feed, approved by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture June 27, 1910, should be interpreted to mean that S100 is the maximum 

 amount which may be allowed any Forest officer during any fiscal year for the purpose 

 specified in the regulation. 



LANDS 

 Lands: Water-Power Permits 



On December 28 the Secretary of Agriculture approved the new regulations, forms, 

 and procedure relating to the acquisition of water-power permits within National 

 Forests. These documents are now in the hands of the Public Printer and will be 

 issued in pamphlet form as a separate section of The Use Book, similar in style to 

 the Grazing Section, which has already been issued. Copies will be sent to the 

 District Foresters as soon as possible. A complete set of the new forms will also be 

 available upon requisition to the Property Clerk. 



Relative Preference Rights to Listed Lands 



(Circular Letter of November 8, 1910.) 



On page 68 of the October Field Program was published an extract of a decision of 

 October 6 by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in a letter to J. S. Todd, 

 Whittier, Cal., holding that applicants under the Act of June 11, 1906, for lands which 

 were subsequently eliminated by proclamation of the President would be given a 

 preference right of entry when the lands were declared open to settlement and entry. 

 The Secretary of the Interior, by letter of November 1 to the Commissioner of the 

 General Land Office, a copy of which was sent each District Forester, reversed the 

 ruling of the Commissioner, and has decided that the Interior Department is not 



