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and will prove a valuable aid in both the planning and execution of 

 surveying projects of all kinds within the next few years. 



GRAZING. 



Classification of Grazing Permittees- 

 Permittees using the National Forests for grazing purposes acquire 

 their preference in one of three ways : (1) By prior use and occupancy, 

 (2) by grant from the Government as new preferred applicants, (3) 

 by purchasing or otherwise acquiring permitted stock under conditions 

 warranting renewal of permit. In classifying permittees on the graz- 

 ing record cards, Form 621, the class to which each individual per- 

 mittee belongs should be determined by the manner in which he secured 

 his initial permit to graze stock upon Forest land. All permittees who 

 were occupying the ranges before their inclusion within a Forest should 

 be classified as prior users. All permittees who were granted permits 

 as new applicants but not as prior users or purchasers should be listed 

 as new owners. All persons who acquired their preference through the 

 purchase of permitted stock should be classified as purchasers. If a 

 permittee's preference was acquired partly through prior use and 

 occupancy, partly through voluntary increase by the Government, and 

 partly through purchase the card should show it. A permittee should 

 be classified according to his original status ; a new owner or a pur- 

 chaser does not become a prior user because of several years' use of the 

 Forest under permit. 



LANDS. 

 Ezcepted Strips 



The frequency of neglect to follow instructions by letter L, June 21, 

 1913, Settlement, Entry Survey, relative to the description of the 

 width of strips to be excepted from listed tracts for roadways and 

 trails indicates that those instructions are either overlooked or not 

 understood. It is required that the width should not be expressed in 

 fractions of a chain, as, for instance, 5/11 of a chain. It is required 

 that it should be expressed either as 1 chain, 50 links, or 25 links, 

 as the case may be. 

 Telephone Lines 



Failure is noted in many instances to comply with instructions re- 

 quiring that maps showing the reservation of right of way needed for 

 maintenance of telephone lines, constructed and used by the Forest 

 Service, should be submitted in duplicate on tracing linen, and not on 

 blue prints. These tracings, with the field notes of survey, also in 

 duplicate, should be transmitted in a letter to the Secretary of the 

 Interior, prepared for signature by the Secretary of Agriculture, recom- 

 mending that the right of way be reserved and noted upon the records 

 of the Interior Department pursuant to the decision of the First 

 Assistant Secretary of the Interior, August 29, 1911 (D-17642). The 

 telephone-line letter should be separate from the list letter embracing 

 the lands traversed by the right-of-way reservation. 



