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the chief of field division such supplementary reports as may be 

 required. 



The regulations of the Department of the Interior provide that if, 



after receiving from the district forester the complete 

 Action by report, the chief of field division is of opinion that 

 chief of field di- adverse proceedings should be ordered, he will trans- 

 mit the report, together with the district forester's 

 recommendations, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office 

 with a recommendation that a hearing be ordered upon the charges 

 suggested by him, and if after receiving a complete report and recom- 

 mendations from the district forester for adverse proceedings, the 

 chief of field division is of opinion that a hearing is unwarranted, he 

 will transmit the report and the district forester's recommendation 

 and his own recommendations to the Commissioner for decision. 

 Should the Commissioner approve the recommendations of the chief 

 of field division, he will notify the Solicitor of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Upon order or application for hearings upon reports covering lands 



or claims within a National Forest, duplicate notices 



Fixing date of thereof are sent by the register and receiver to the 



hearing in local c hi e f o f field division and the proper district assistant 



to the solicitor. Before setting date for the hearing 

 in any such case, the chief of field division will confer with the proper 

 district assistant to the solicitor and thereupon suggest to the register 

 and receiver a date for hearing a-nd the names of witnesses to be sub- 

 poenaed upon behalf of the Government. In the event the chief of 

 field Division and the district assistant to the solicitor are unable to 

 agree as to the date of hearing, the matter will be referred by the 

 chief of field division to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 

 who will issue the necessarv directions. 



After the date for hearing in a case has been set, the district 



assistant to the solicitor will, when necessary, instruct 



Summary of the supervisor to interview the witnesses and return 



heSi^g^as been ^ ie summar y f witnesses as described under "Prp- 



set * cedure on National Forests." The supervisor will 



thereafter instruct Forest officers to secure such addi- 

 tional evidence and supply such additional information as may be 

 required by the district assistant to the solicitor. 



In all hearings affecting lands or claims within a National Forest, 



the chief of field division or a special agent of the 



District assist- General Land Office and the district assistant to the 



to? will re resent sonc ^ or w ^ be entered of record as appearing on 



Service at hear- behalf of the Government. The chief of field division 



ings. or special agent of the General Land Office acting as 



attorney for the Government in any such case will 

 control the Government's side of the case in any matter as to which 

 counsel are unable to agree, subject to any direction that may be 

 given by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in case the 

 matters of difference are of such importance as to be presented to him 

 for action. In all Government cases before registers and receivers 

 involving lands or claims within a National Forest, the chief of field 

 division and the district assistant to the solicitor will each be served 

 with notice of all appeals, motions, orders, and decisions required to 

 be noted under the rules in cases of private contests. 



