UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 FOREST SERVICE. 



AMENDMENT NO. 27 TO THE NATIONAL FOEEST MANUAL, 191& 

 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND PROTECTION. (REGULATIONS 

 OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND INSTRUCTIONS TO 

 FOREST OFFICERS RELATING TO THE GENERAL ADMINISTRA- 

 TION OF THE FOREST SERVICE AND THE PROTECTION AND USE 

 OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS.) 



Effective on and after September 15, 1913. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 OFFICE OF THE SECRETAKY. 



Allotment of privileges to trespassers. 



Regulation G. A.-12. All cases of trespass or fraud against the 

 Government in connection with the National Forests will be handled 

 on their merits as separate and independent transactions, and no 

 effort will be made to force settlement of pending cases through the 

 forfeiture of established privilege or preferences or the denial of 

 privileges which might otherwise be granted to the applicant, except 

 in cases where the trespasser has taken advantage of legal techni- 

 calities to avert satisfaction of judgment or where the denial of 

 further privileges has been recommended by the Attorney General 

 of the Department of Justice or his assistant, or by another bureau or 

 department of the Government, or by the Solicitor of the Department 

 of Agriculture or his assistant. 



Done at Washington, D. C., this 13th day of September, 1913. 

 Witness my hand and seal of the Department of Agriculture. 

 [SEAL.] D. F. HOUSTON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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