UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 FOREST SERVICE. 



AMENDMENT NO. 23 TO THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL, 1912 

 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND PROTECTION. (REGULA- 

 TIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND INSTRUC- 

 TIONS TO FOREST OFFICERS RELATING TO GENERAL ADMINIS- 

 TRATION OF THE FOREST SERVICE AND THE PROTECTION AND 

 USE OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS.) 



Effective on and after July 15, 19 IS. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE, 

 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 



Page 12 of the National Forest Manual, 1912, General Adminis- 

 tration and Protection, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture to take 

 effect August 12, 1912, is hereby amended by adding the following 

 after Regulation G. A.-9: 



Regulation G. A.-10. Wherever any association whose member- 

 ship includes a majority of the local residents using a National Forest, 

 or portion thereof, for like purposes, shall select a committee, an 

 agreement on the part of which shall be binding upon the associa- 

 tion, such committee, upon application to the district forester, may be 

 recognized in an advisory capacity on behalf of the association, and 

 shall be entitled to receive notice of proposed action and have an 

 opportunity to be heard by the local Forest officer in reference to 

 any proposed changes likely to materially affect the use or interest 

 in the Forest or portion thereof enjoyed by such permittees. The 

 general principles of recognition and responsibility governing co- 

 operation with live-stock associations are herewith extended, so far 

 a? they are applicable, to the other regular lines of business conducted 

 on the National Forests. 



Done at Washington. D. C., this 3d day of July, 1913. 



Witness my hand and the seal of the Department of Agriculture. 



[SEAL.] B. T. GALLOWAY, 



Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 



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