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report should contain recommendations, with a full and concise 

 statement of the reasons therefor, concerning the approval or dis- 

 approval of the application. The duplicate copy of the District 

 engineer's report will be sent to the supervisor for his files. 



If upon the showing made in the report of the supervisor or the 

 District engineer the District Forester believes the 

 DistncUforest- application should be approved, he will prepare a 

 vorable report. * stipulation in triplicate and submit the original to 

 the applicant for execution. He will also send one 

 copy to be retained by the applicant. Upon the receipt of the 

 executed stipulation he will submit it to the District assistant 

 to the Solicitor for approval as to its form and execution, and 

 when approved the District Forester will prepare a letter to the Com- 

 missioner of the General Land Office for the signature of the Forester, 

 reporting favorably upon the application, and will forward it, together 

 with the executed stipulation, the supervisor's report, his own recom- 

 mendations, and the correspondence file, to the Forester. A copy 

 of the stipulation will be sent to the supervisor for his files. In cases, 

 reported upon by the District engineer, all papers, including his 

 report, will be transmitted through the chief engineer to the Forester. 

 ' If upon the showing made in the reports of the supervisor and the 

 District engineer, or upon his own knowledge of the 

 District F .^ e ^- case, the District Forester believes that the application 

 favorable Report?" should not be approved, he will not prepare the stipu- 

 lation for execution by the applicant, but will forward 

 the reports, recommendations, and other papers as in the case of a 

 favorable report. He will also prepare and forward with the other 

 papers a letter for the signature of the Forester to the Commissioner 

 of the General Land Office, stating the grounds upon which the unfa- 

 vorable action is recommended. If, however, the application is not 

 approved because it appears to have been made under the wrong act 

 and not to the wrong department, as for instance, an application made 

 under the act of March 3, 1891, instead of the act of February 1, 1905, 

 the District Forester will prepare the stipulation as in a favorable 

 report, present it for execution by the applicant, and transmit it with 

 the other papers. 



Upon the receipt of the report, recommendations, and other papers 



from the District Forester, the chief engineer will 



engineer examine the papers and reports, and will forward 



them, together with his own recommendations, to the 



Forester. 



After the recommendation has been made to the Department of 

 ,,. . . the Interior, the Forester will return all the papers 



Forester? ' m the cas . e to the . District Forester. When the For- 



f ester receives notice fro pa the General Land Office that 

 a right of way is finally granted or denied, or that proof of construc- 

 tion has been filed, he will forward such notice to the District For- 

 ester, who will inform the supervisor. 



