46 THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



When an application is received for a tract of land that has been 

 examined and unfavorably reported upon on a prior application, the 

 application will be rejected unless known changes in 

 Reinstatement local conditions justify reexamination. 

 of original appH- jf a reexamination shows that the land should be 

 listed, the original application will be reinstated, and 

 the prior applicant or applicants notified. 

 If the examiner's report shows that only a part of the land applied 

 . fi ion for is chiefly valuable for agriculture, the applicant 

 applicant 3 of n re- W JM be informed of the result of the examination and 

 duced area that will b'e requested to state whether he desires to exer- 

 has been recom- c ise his homestead right upon the area which may be 

 mended for list- listed. Upon the return of the signed blank, which 

 will be inclosed with the letter, the necessary action 

 will be taken. In case the applicant withdraws his application, the 

 procedure will be as prescribed under " Withdrawal of applications." 

 If the applicant wishes the agricultural land listed to him the case 

 will thereafter be handled the same as if all of the land applied for had 

 been recommended for listing. 



If no reply is received from the applicant within 30 days, a second 

 notice will be issued. If no reply is received to the second notice 

 within 30 days, a letter will be written to the applicant advising him 

 that his application is rejected and the case closed. The case will 

 then be noted as closed on the tract books. If, however, the tract 

 should be subsequently listed on the application of another, or other- 

 wise, and either separately or as a part of another tract, all of the 

 facts in connection with the first application for such tract should 

 be set forth in the listing letter to the Secretary of the Interior. 

 When lands covered by applications under the act of June 11, 1906, 

 whether listed or not, are to be eliminated from a 

 lkants e whe^ National Forest, the applicants should be informed 

 lands applied far ^ that ^ ac ^ an d ^ na ^ ^ ne Secretary of the Interior 

 have been elimi- has decided that after such lands have been eliminated 

 nated from the they can not be entered under the act of June 11, 

 Forest. 1906, but will be subject to entry under the general 



land laws. The applicant should be further informed that when the 

 land is eliminated from the Forest the case will be closed as far as 

 the Department of Agriculture is concerned and that they may 

 ascertain from the Interior Department the date the land will be 

 opened to entry. 



Two copies of the letter to the applicant will be forwarded to the 

 supervisor in order that the supervisor and ranger may be informed, 

 and proper notation will be made on the township plat and index 

 sheet in the plat book. 



If an application is received for the listing of land covered by a 



mineral location for which application for patent has 



Applications in not been made, and where the land is chiefly valuable 



conflict with f t^ t ITJ i i- J.T 



mineral loca agriculture and not needed for public use, the 



t^ons*. e applicant will be informed of the mineral location and 



that the listing of the land under the act of June 11, 

 1906, will have no bearing upon the determination of the questions 

 which may arise in a contest before the Interior Department between 

 mineral and agricultural claimants. The applicant will be asked 

 whether, under these circumstances, he desires to exercise his home- 



