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OPERATION 

 Forest Surveys and Maps 



An insert will soon be issued for the Instructions for Making Surveys and Maps. 

 It will supersede National Forest Order 23, Part 4, and the Instructions for Exami- 

 nations for Agricultural Settlement. It will contain sample field notes and instruc- 

 tions for platting ranger and homestead surveys. 



The insert will also include instructions for mounting maps on muslin, and will 

 describe the method for the cancellation of misleading marks on former Forest bound- 

 ary posts. 



The insert will be pasted in the Instructions for Making Forest Surveys and Maps, 

 edition of 1910, at page 34, and will therefore be available for Forest officers during 

 the season of 1911. The edition for 1912 will contain all of the instructions heretofore 

 issued, together with astronomical tables for 1912. 



Rules Concerning Property and Business Relations, Political Activity, and Personal 

 Conduct 



The following rules have been established to protect the Forest Service and its 

 individual members from possible criticism or embarrassment in the discharge of 

 official duties because of any likelihood that official action might be thought to have 

 been improperly influenced by personal motives or interests. The administrative 

 officers will enforce these rules by such measures as they deem necessary. Members 

 of the Service who are in doubt regarding the application of these rules to their per- 

 sonal interests should seek the advice of their official superiors. 



1 . No member of the Forest Service shall, under any circumstances, file or initiate 

 a claim, directly or indirectly, under any of the public-land laws, to land within the 

 limits of a National Forest. A member who has secured a claim, under any of the 

 public-land laws, to such land, before its inclusion within a National Forest, or before 

 his appointment as a Forest officer, will be allowed to perfect his title, but he may 

 be compelled to choose between his claim and his position should his duties make it 

 impossible for him to comply with the residence or improvement requirements. 



2. A member of the Forest Service may acquire land not included within a National 

 Forest, under any of the Federal or State land laws, or have an interest in any asso- 

 ciation, partnership, or company formed with a view to acquiring such land, unless 

 such action might prejudice his standing as a Forest officer, influence his official 

 action, or tend to bring criticism upon the Forest Service. 



3. A member of the Forest Service may purchase private land within or near a 

 National Forest, unless such action might prejudice his standing as a Forest officer, 

 influence his official action, or tend to bring criticism upon the Forest Service. 



4. No member of the Forest Service shall, as principal, partner, or agent, speculate 

 or be commercially interested in timber or other forest products, or in live stock, or 

 in any ownership or lease of any timberland, or in any lumbering contract or operation 

 whether on the National Forests or elsewhere, when such action will prejudice his 

 standing, influence his official action, or tend to bring criticism upon the Forest 

 Service. 



5. No member of the Forest Service shall, as principal, partner, or agent, be inter- 

 ested in any enterprise which profits by the use of any National Forest on which he is 



