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vided, however, That the Department of Agriculture shall not be required to take 

 formal appeals from decisions of Registers and Receivers. 



5. Costs incident to hearings before Registers and Receivers in Government cases 

 involving lands or claims within a National Forest will be paid under rules now in 

 force. Expenses incident to appeals will be paid by the Department of Agriculture; 

 except that, where feasible,. Chiefs of Field Division may give aid in office work in 

 preparation of papers, briefs, etc. 

 Very respectfully, 



(Signed) R. A . BALLINGER, 



Secretary of the Interior. 

 (Signed) JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 

 WASHINGTON, D. C., November 25, 1910. 



Lands Reconveyed to the United States Under a Lieu Selection 



On October 15, 1910, the Secretary of the Interior held, in the case of Otto Liebel, 

 List 5-438, Sequoia National Forest, which involved lands reconveyed under a lieu 

 selection of unsurveyed lands, that the listed land could not at this time be opened 

 to entry because, although the lieu selection had been approved for patent by the 

 Commissioner of the General Land Office, it has not yet been patented to the selector, 

 the selected lands being still unsurveyed. Until the selection is patented, the recon- 

 veyed lands are not subject to disposal. This ruling was based on the decision of 

 April 21, 1910, by the Interior Department in the case 01 Rosa Rupp, Seattle, 0711. 

 Correspondence with Other Bureaus 



The Secretary of Agriculture on December 17 authorized the Forester, and under 

 his instructions the District Foresters, to reply directly to chiefs of other bureaus and 

 to initiate correspondence with them in regard to purely routine matters that are not 

 legal in character modifying accordingly the instructions in the January, 1909, Field 

 Program, pages 218 and 219. By letter (AF-Supervision) of December 19, District 

 Foresters were instructed to prepare all such correspondence for the signature of the 

 Forester, unless at some future time they are specifically authorized by the Forester 

 to sign certain classes of correspondence with other bureaus. 



SERVICE PUBLICATIONS ISSUED IN OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND 

 DECEMBER. 



Bulletin 36 The Woodsman's Handbook (enlarged and revised). 



Bulletin 83 The Forest Resources of the World. 



Circular 89 Tamarack (revised). 



Circular 179 Utilization of California Eucalypts. 



Report of the Forester for 1910. 



