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and, if need be, for submission to the Sucrfetai y ot Agriculture", ami, Mit^r incision, the 

 papers will be returned by the Forester to the District Forester with notice of decision 

 and appropriate instructions. Should the Chief of Field Division find the report, 

 in his opinion, insufficient to warrant adverse proceedings, he will return it directly 

 to the District Forester, requesting such additional investigation as may be necessary; 

 or, if he deems it advisable, he will cause an Agent of the General Land Office to make 

 such additional investigation. If, after receipt of the complete report, the Chief of 

 Field Division is of opinion that adverse proceedings should be ordered, he will 

 transmit the report, together with the District Forester's letter of recommendations, 

 to the Commissioner of the General Land Office with a letter of transmittal recom- 

 mending the ordering of a hearing before the Register and Receiver upon the charges 

 suggested by him and noted in his letter of transmittal. If, after receipt of complete 

 report from the District Forester recommending adverse proceedings, the Chief of 

 Field Division is of opinion that a hearing is unwarranted, he will transmit the 

 report, the District Forester's letter of recommendations, and his own recommenda- 

 tions to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for decision. Should the Com- 

 missioner of the General Land Office approve the recommendations of the Chief of 

 Field Division, he will notify the Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture. 



2. Upon order or application for hearings upon reports covering lands or claims 

 within a National Forest the Register and Receiver will send duplicate notices 

 thereof to the Chief of Field Division and the proper District Assistant to the Solici- 

 tor. Before setting date for the hearing in any such case the Chief of Field Division 

 will confer with the proper District Assistant to the Solicitor and thereupon suggest 

 to the Register and Receiver a date for hearing and the names of witnesses to be 

 subpoenaed upon behalf of the Government. In the event the Chief of Field Divis- 

 ion and the District Assistant to the Solicitor are unable to agree as to the date of 

 hearing, the matter will be referred by the Chief of Field Division to the Commis- 

 sioner of the General Land Office, who will issue the necessary directions. 



3. In all hearings affecting lands or claims within a National Forest the Chief of 

 Field Division or a Special Agent of the General Land Office and the District Assist- 

 ant to the Solicitor, will be entered of record as appearing on behalf of the Govern- 

 ment. The Chief of Field Division or Special Agent of the General Land Office, 

 acting as attorney for the Government in any such case, will control the Govern- 

 ment's side of the case in any matter as to which counsel are unable to agree, subject 

 to any direction that may be given by the Commissioner of the General Land Office 

 in case the matters of difference are of such importance as to be presented to him for 

 action. 



4. In all Government cases before Registers and Receivers involving lands or 

 claims within a National Forest the Chief of Field Division and the District Assist- 

 ant to the Solicitor shall each be served with notice of all appeals, motions, orders, 

 and decisions required to be noted under the rules in cases of private contests. The 

 proper Law Officers of the Department of Agriculture shall also have a right of appeal 

 from any decision by the Commissioner of the General Land Office and to file motion 

 for review in the Department, or to take other like action in the same manner as a 

 private contestant, and shall receive like notices of proceedings and decisions: Pro- 



