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a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 

 the memorandum will also show the file number, initials, and date of 

 the Commissioner's letter. These memoranda will be used as promise 

 cards, and when the reply to the Solicitor, prepared by the district 

 forester for the signature of the Forester, is received the memorandum 

 relating to it will be filed with the carbon copy of the reply 



When a chief of field division, after receiving from a district 



A eals b So- ^ orester a complete report and recommendation for 

 licitor from de- adverse proceedings on a claim, has submitted to the 

 cisions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office a recom- 

 Commissioner of mendation that a hearing is unwarranted, and when 

 T he ,i?u8 n e r a 1 the Commissioner has approved the recommendation 

 of the chief e of field division, the. Solicitor of the 

 Department of Agriculture is notified of the decision. The regula- 

 tions of the Department of the Interior provide that notice of every 

 decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office be given to 

 the Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture, who may appeal from 

 any such decision, and who may take other like action in the same 

 manner as a private contestant; but the Department of Agriculture 

 is not required to take formal appeals from the decisions of the 

 registers arid receivers. 



When a case is submitted to the Forester by the district forester 

 after a disagreement between the district forester and 



Final decision the district assistant to the solicitor as to whether a 

 Son rC to OT SsSute contest should be* instituted, the Forester will consult 

 a contest. ^ the Solicitor, and if necessary the case will be sub- 



mitted to the Secretary of Agriculture for his decision. 



When a final decision is rendered, the Forester will re turn all the 

 papers in the case to the district forester, with notice of the decision 

 and appropriate instructions. 



Notification from the Commissioner of the General Land Office that 



Action u on ^ e nas a PP rove d the plat and field notes of the sur- 

 rece C ipt OI of notif veyor general of an extension of the public-land sur- 

 cation of exten- vey over lands within a National Forest will be 

 sion of public- forwarded by stamped indorsement to the district 

 land survey. forester concerned. 



When request on Form 31 for report on status from the public- 

 land records in Washington is received from the 



Action on re- district forester, the request will be returned with 

 SSS LJ fr the report (Form 301) without a letter of transmittal, 



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of lands. but ii any explanation is necessary it will be by 



memorandum referred by rubber-stamp indorsement. 



