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Squatters' claims. Bona fide squatters upon unsurveyed lands may 

 be allowed permits for grazing the number of animals their claims 

 will support, provided no claim exceeds 160 acres. No conflicting 

 claims will be recognized until the matter has been determined by the 

 Department of the Interior. 



State selections. Persons who have applied to purchase or who have 

 leased from a State any lands which have been selected under author- 

 ity of an act of Congress, and the lists of which have been filed with 

 the Commissioner of the General Land Office but have not been 

 approved, will be allowed the use of these lands for grazing purposes, 

 pending final action upon the validity of the selections. 



In permits based upon the right to the use of unapproved State 

 selections the following clause should be inserted : 



And provided, That the issuance of this permit gives no right 

 to the use of the above-described lands except for grazing pur- 

 poses, and hi case the selection made by the State is disapproved 

 this permit shall be null and void. 



Railroad lands Surveyed or selected. Surveyed railroad lands 

 within the primary limits of a grant are acceptable as the basis for 

 the issuance of free permits under this regulation. Lands selected by 

 the railroad company within the indemnity limits of a grant are not 

 acceptable until after the selections have been approved by the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior. 



Unsurveyed railroad land. The use of unsurveyed, unselected 

 lands within the primary and indemnity limits of railroad grants will 

 be allowed only in accordance with the grazing regulations under regu- 

 lar paid permits. 



Procedure. 



When an application for a permit in exchange for the use of private 

 lands is received, card record (Form 403) will be made showing the 

 name and address of the applicant, the acreage of the land owned or 

 leased, the number of each kind of stock to be grazed, the location of 

 the range to be occupied, and the grazing period. The cards will be 

 filed alphabetically behind the record cards for the regular paid per- 

 mits. 



The application (Form 925), report on the grazing capacity of the 

 land (Form 251), and the duplicate copy of the permit (Form 656) will 

 be placed in a folder and designated according to instructions. The 

 permit will be written in triplicate, the original sent the applicant, 

 the duplicate filed, and the triplicate sent to the ranger in charge of 

 the district. 



CROSSING PERMITS. (Reg. G-8.) 



The regular grazing permit carries with it the privilege of driving 

 the permitted stock over National Forest lands to and from the 

 allotted ranges at the beginning and end of the grazing season and from 

 the range ^ to the most accessible shearing, dipping, and shipping 

 points during the term of the permit. Supervisors should designate 

 the route to be traveled and the crossing period whenever it is evident 

 that the unrestricted privilege would be detrimental to the Forest or 

 to other permittees. 



When Granted. 



Crossing permits may be granted for crossing stock over National 

 Forest lands to points beyond the National Forest, for crossing stock 



