42 THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



district office, enter "no reply" in this column. In the "Date listed" 

 column should be entered the date that final action was taken on the 

 application by the district forester or Secretary of Agriculture. If all 

 or any part of the tract applied for is recommended for Listing, the 

 total number of acres recommended will be entered in the "Acreage" 

 column. The exact area will be outlined and hatched in green on the 

 township plat (Form 123), and the list number written in red ink 

 across the tract listed. Land which is not listed should be shown on 

 the township plat by a green "X" on each 40 or smaller subdivision. 

 When an application is canceled, rejected, eliminated, or withdrawn, 

 a black ink line will be drawn through the application number on the 

 area shown on township plats. 



The supervisor will close all cases as soon as notice is received from 

 the district forester of the final action taken in the 



Closing settle- case Upon receipt of the Interior Department notice 

 that final action has been taken to restore the land 

 to entry, it will ' be placed in the folder in the closed file. Papers 

 in the folders of closed cases may be transferred when necessary to 

 the folders of new or supplemental applications, leaving an appro- 

 priate memorandum in the closed folder. 



In every instance a copy of the letter closing the case should be 

 sent to the ranger for his files. The supervisor will instruct the 

 ranger that no action will be taken, after the notice of listing has been 

 received in regard to the erection of improvements on, or cultivation 

 of, listed lands by the applicant or other persons. 



Supervisors will include in their statistical report (Form 446) to the 



Annual re ort district forester, due on July 15, a statement of the 

 settlement work on their Forests for the preceding 

 fiscal year. 



Sec. 31 of the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat., L. 855), provides: 



That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion^ to 

 make allotments within the national forests in conformity with 



Indian allot- the general allotment laws as amended by section 17 of this act, 

 ment under act to any Indian occupying, living on, or having improvements on 

 June 25, 1910 (36 land included within any such national forest who is not en- 

 Stat., 855). titled to an allotment on any existing Indian reservation, or for 



whose tribe no reservation has been provided, or whose reservation 

 was not sufficient to afford an allotment to each member thereof. All applications for 

 allotments under the provisions of this section shall be submitted to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, who shall determine whether the lands applied for are more valuable 

 for agricultural or grazing purposes than for the timber found thereon; and if it be 

 found that the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing pur- 

 poses, then the Secretary of the Interior shall cause allotment to be made as herein 

 provided. 



Under section 17 of the foregoing act the maximum quantities of 

 land which can be taken in allotment are as follows: 



40 acres of irrigable land, or 

 80 acres of nonirrigable agricultural land, or 

 160 acres of nonirrigable grazing land. 



Lands to which the mineral laws of the United States apply are not 

 subject to allotment under the provisions of this act. Indians 

 desiring to apply for allotment within National Forests must produce 

 satisfactory evidence to show that they are in possession of or have 

 improvements on the lands desired, and further that such lands are 

 more valuable for agricultural or grazing purposes than for the timber 

 found thereon. Any Indian making application for allotment is 



