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common-school grant to lands included within the Black Hills National Forest prior 

 to survey, and be allowed to select other lands equivalent in acreage and value lying 

 along and within the boundaries of the National Forests. The exchange involves an 

 area of 60,143 acres. The lieu areas agreed upon for elimination comprise 47,937 acres 

 within the Harney National Forest, the balance to be obtained from the Sioux 

 National Forest. By the proclamation the lieu areas do not become finally elimi- 

 inated from the National Forests until the selection by the State is perfected. All 

 selections must be filed within 90-days from the date of the proclamation, or within 

 90 days from the approval of the official plat of survey of the unsurveyed land embraced 

 in the area. The proclamation signed April 1 eliminated '2(i,440 acres from the Uncom 

 pahgre National Forest, Colo. 



In districts 3 and 5 the Executive orders signed February 17 transferred a total 

 of approximately 2,414,705 acres of land from the Alamo and Carson Forests, N. Mex.; 

 the Apache and the Sitgreaves Forests, Ariz.; the Zuni Forest, Ariz, and N.Mex.; and 

 the Sequoia and Trinity Forests, Cal., to the Mescalero Apache and Jicarilla Indian 

 Reservations, N. Mex.; the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation, Ariz.; the 

 \avajo and Zuni Indian Reservations, Ariz, and N. Mex.; and the Tule River and 

 the Iloopa Valley Indian Reservations, Cal. The transferred areas were, according 

 to the opinion of the Acting Attorney (Jeneral of September 5, 1911, erroneously in- 

 cluded within the National Forests by the proclamations of March 2, 1909. The 

 K \fcutive order signed April 1 eliiniiuitiMl 1 ,(,<)() acres from the Lincoln National 

 Forest, N. Mex. 



In district 4 the proclamation signed January 24 eliminated 12,819 acres from and 

 added (10,579 acres to the Cache National Forest, Utah and Idaho. The proclamation 

 signed March 23, eliminated 2,720 acres of patented land from the Idaho National 

 Forest, Idaho. 



LANDS. 



Listing of Surveyed Lands by Metes and Bounds 



Under the rulings of the Interior Department, it is permissible to list surveyed lands 

 according to legal subdivisions as small as 2.J acres each. It has been brought to 

 the attention of the Forester, however, that it frequently is more practical and in 

 the end less expensive to make a metes and bounds survey than to describe the 

 lands by such small subdivision. The district foresters have, accordingly, been 

 authorized to make metes and bounds listing surveys in such cases, giving the appli- 

 cant, however, the privilege of choosing the method of description when the exam- 

 iner believes a metes and bounds survey preferable solely from the applicant's stand- 

 point. 



Amendments to Manual: Claims, Settlements, and Administrative Sites- 

 Attention is called to the amendments to the Manual relating to claims, settle- 

 merit, and administrative sites, synopsized as follows: 



No. 109, which provides that all reports on applications under the act of June 

 11, 1906, must be accompanied by answers to the questions on Form 107 relative 

 to water-power possibilities. 



No. Ill, which embodies instructions relative to the exception of strips for 

 highways, and the reservation of rights of way for telephone lines, through tracts 

 to be listed under the act of June 11, 1906. 



