SETTLEMENT. 45 



The tracings and field notes will be checked as to accuracy and suffi- 

 ciency of survey, and fiye blue prints will be made from trie tracings. 

 When necessary, the report may be referred for review to the offices 

 of silviculture or grazing. This will be left to the discretion of the dis- 

 trict forester. When the report has been finally approved, the proper 

 notation should be made in the tract book on Forms 123 and 124. 

 If all or any part of the tract applied for is recommended for listing, 

 the exact area should be outlined and hatched with a green crayon on 

 Form 123. Any portion of the tract that is found to be not chiefly 

 valuable for agriculture should be indicated by a green "X" in each 

 subdivision on the township plat. 



If the tract recommended for listing is unsurveyed, or the exception 

 of a strip for a roadway is necessary, so that a metes 

 b SU metes f ^nd an< ^ bounds survey is required, the applicant will be 

 bounds 6 . C notified that the survey may be made by the Forest 



Service under the direction of the surveyor general, 

 if the applicant will deposit with the proper surveyor general a 

 sufficient sum to pay for the clerical work necessary in his office, 

 and that the expense to the applicant shall not exceed that sum. 

 The district forester will forward a copy of the application to the 

 surveyor general, and, upon receipt of notice from him of the name 

 of the person designated to make the survey and that the deposit in 

 payment of clerical work has been made, will instruct that the survey 

 be made. The surveyor will report the result of his work to the 

 supervisor in the usual manner. 



If an applicant desires a free special-use permit pending the restora- 



Free special- t * on ^ t ^ ie * a . n( * to entl 7> ne * ^ e referred to the 

 use permits? forest supervisor of the Forest in which the land 

 is located, since all permits of this character will be 

 issued by the forest supervisors. 



Applications may be withdrawn at any time prior to the date that 

 Withdrawal of ^ e ^ an< ^ * s listed with the Secretary of the Interior 

 applications. by the Secretary of Agriculture. Upon the receipt 



of a written request to withdraw an application, the 

 proper notation will be made in the tract book on Forms 123 and 124. 

 Applications when withdrawn are not removed from the plats, but are 

 merely canceled by drawing a black-ink line through the application 

 numbers. Subsequent applications by the same person are given 

 new numbers. The applicant will be informed by letter of the action 

 taken upon his request for withdrawal, and two carbon copies of the 

 letter will be forwarded to the supervisor, one for the supervisor's and 

 one for the ranger's file. 



If the examiner's report upon an application is adverse, the proper 



Rejection o f ^. rm letter will be prepared for the signature of the 



applications. district forester. Two carbon copies of the letter 



will be forwarded to the supervisor, one copy for his 



files and one for the ranger. 



When the application is rejected because the land is not chiefly 

 valuable for agriculture, a green "X" will be placed in each 40 or 

 smaller subdivision on the Form 123 in the tract book, and the same 

 mark made in the "List No." column on the Form 124 index sheet. 

 The final action taken, with date of rejection, will be noted on the 

 Form 124 in the tract book and the case closed. 



