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the sale is bona fide will cancel the original permit and will issue, free 

 of charge, an amended permit to the original permittee for the num- 

 ber of stock retained and a permit to the purchaser for the number of 

 stock purchased, which will allow the grazing of such stock upon the 

 National Forest during the remainder of the permit period. Renewal 

 of permit to the purchaser during subsequent years will be subject to 

 the following restrictions : 



The permittee from whom the stock is purchased must have used 

 the range during three or more successive years, unless the initial 

 permit was secured through the purchase of permitted stock, in 

 which event a renewal of permit to a second purchaser may be allowed 

 after the expiration of one year from the date of the permit issued 

 to the first purchaser. The permittee selling the stock must execute 

 an agreement waiving to the United States all claims to preference in 

 the use of the forest land for the grazing of the number of stock trans- 

 ferred. The permit in its renewal will be subject to the maximum 

 limit restrictions and to necessary reductions applicable to other per- 

 mits of the same class and no division of stock and ranches will 

 exempt such permits from reduction. 



Subject to the foregoing restrictions, a renewal of permit for not to 

 exceed 90 per cent of the stock purchased may be allowed the pur- 

 chaser of stock grazed under permit and the ranches used in connec- 

 tion therewith, and provided that a full renewal will be allowed if the 

 purchaser is a resident ranch owner who does not own a total of more 

 than the protective limit number of stock. The mere purchase of 

 stock grazed under permit will not entitle the purchaser to share in 

 the grazing privilege, but if the purchaser is the owner of improved 

 ranch property which is commensurate and used in connection with 

 the permitted stock, a renewal of permit may be allowed for not to 

 exceed 80 per cent of the stock purchased. 



PERMITS TO NEW OWNERS. 



Reg. G-19. Grazing applications other than for renewal of permit 

 will not be approved 5 the average number of stock per permit upon 

 the Forest or upon the grazing district where the stock: are to be 

 grazed is more than 20 per cent below the established protective limit 

 number, or if the approval of such applications require a total reduc- 

 tion upon any permit of the preceding year of more than 10 per cent 

 in the permit of an owner of improved ranch property commensurate 

 with the permitted stock or more than 20 per cent in the permit of a 

 person not owning such property. If a Forest or a grazing district is 

 lully stocked the total number *of stock to be distributed among new 

 applicants and permittees below the protective limit during any one 

 year must not exceed 3 per cent of the total number authorized for the 

 year, and no new permit will be issued for more than one-half of the 

 protective limit number; or, if the average number of stock per per- 

 mit is less than the protective limit established for the Forests or the 

 grazing district, no new permit will be issued for more than one-fourth 

 of the protective limit number, nor will such permit be issued except 

 for stock which will be fed during the winter from the products of the 

 permittee's ranch. 



Upon fully stocked Forests or grazing districts, applications other 

 than for renewal of permit will not be considered unless filed with the 

 supervisor six months before the beginning of the grazing season. 



