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from such additional investigation as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may 

 direct, that a claim for compensation is established under this act, the compen- 

 sation to be paid shall be determined as provided under this act and approved 

 for payment by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 



SEC. 5. That the employee shall, whenever and as often as required by the 

 Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at least once in six months, submit to medical 

 examination, to be provided and paid for under the direction of the Secretary, 

 and if such employee refuses to submit to or obstructs such examination his or 

 her right to compensation shall be lost for the period covered by the continuance 

 of such refusal or obstruction. 



SEC. 6. That payments under this act are only to be made to the beneficiaries 

 or their legal representatives other than assignees, and shall not be subject to 

 the claims of creditors. 



SEC. 7. That the United States shall not exempt itself from liability under this 

 act by any contract, agreement, rule, or regulation, and any such contract, agree- 

 ment, rule, or regulation shall be pro tanto void. 



SEC. 8. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith or providing a differ- 

 ent scale of compensation or otherwise regulating its payment are hereby 

 repealed. 



Printed instructions and the necessary blank forms will be supplied to the district 

 foresters, for distribution to forest oTicers, as soon as received from the Secretary of 



Commerce and Labor. 



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Forest Service Chain-Stadia Pattern- 

 In addition to the standard stadia pattern, reading 100-foot distances, described on 

 page 58 of the October Field Program, there has been adopted a chain-stadia pattern 

 which gives measurements in Gunter's chains of 66 feet and tenths thereof. The 

 pattern is the same design as the standard stadia pattern, consisting of red and black 

 triangles upon a white background. The sheets have been printed and will be 

 issued by the property clerk as expendable property. Each sheet will contain 

 printed directions for making the rod, similar to those contained on the standard 

 pattern. 



Lookout Station Protractor 



A standard protractor for lookout stations has never been adopted, but a number 

 of different forms are being tried. There will soon be issued and obtainable from the 

 property clerk a protector 5 inches in diameter, lithographed on thin transparent 

 paper, from which it can be cut out and pasted upon the station map, properly cen- 

 tered and oriented to the position of the lookout station on the map. This protractor 

 is issued at the request of district 1, but an extra quantity is being printed in order 

 that they may be available in ether districts and be given a thorough trial. 



Changes in Boundaries and Areas- 

 Proclamations and Executive orders have been signed changing National Forest 

 boundaries as follows: 



In district 1 the proclamation signed February 27 eliminated 73,160 acres from the 

 Jefferson National Forest, Mont. 



In district 2 a proclamation was signed February 15 modifying the proclamations 

 of the Black Hills, Harney, and Sioux National Forests, to provide for the carrying 

 out of an agreement entered into January 4, 1910, by the Forest Service and the State 

 of South Dakota. By the agreement the State was to relinquish its claim under its 



