CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Establishment of National Forests and general powers of administration (national 



monuments and game refuges) 



Legislation affecting particular National Forests 9 



Uniform rules and regulations 



Operation 



Personnel 14 



Buildings and property 16 



Decisions affecting the work of "operation " 17 



Arrests Carrying concealed weapons 18 



Lands - 18 



Claims procedure 18 



Instructions of January 19, 1911 (39 L. D., 458), to special agents and 



registers and receivers 



Final proof notices, etc. Copies to forest officers 19 



Filing of township plats Notices to forest officers 19 



Joint circular of November 25, 1910 (39 L. D., 374), relating to pro- 

 cedure in claims cases affecting the National Forests 20 



Homestead laws 21 



Basic provisions of the homestead laws most generally affecting Forest 



Service work 21 



United States Revised Statutes 21 



Special provisions in favor of soldiers and sailors 24 



Three-year homestead law 24 



Limitation to 320 acres under all land laws, excepting mineral laws. . . 26 



Free homesteads on certain Indian lands opened to settlement 26 



Additional homestead entries 26 



Enlarged homesteads in certain States 27 



Contests and cancellation of claim Preference right 27 



Commutation provisions 27 



Homestead bv married women 27 



Settlers who Become insane 27 



Leaves of absence 27 



Final proof notices 27 



Distinction between offered and unoffered lands abolished 27 



Relinquishments 27 



General provisions of the homestead laws extended to certain lands in 



the Yellowstone (now Shoshone) National Forest, etc 27 



Homesteads in former Siletz Indian Reservation 27 



Homestead laws extended to Alaska, with modifications, etc 27 



Lands in the Black Hills Forest Reservation, settled upon and im- 

 proved before September 19, 1898, may be entered under the home- 

 stead laws, etc : . 27 



Decisions under the homestead laws 27 



Agricultural lands in National Forests 30 



Decisions relating to the listing of agricultural larids for entry Act 



June 11, 1906 (34 Stat., 233) ." 32 



Mining laws 33 



Basic provisions of the mining laws most generally affecting Forest- 

 Service work 33 



United States Revised Statutes 33 



Other provisions of the mining laws 37 



Mining laws in Alaska 37 



Decisions under the mining laws 37 



Mineral springs and lands adjacent 41 



Decisions relating to mineral springs 41 



Coal-land laws 42 



Basic provisions 42 



United States Revised Statutes 42 



Surface patents on good-faith entries of coal lands 43 



Agricultural entry for surface of lands classified or withdrawn as coal 



lands. (Not applicable to Alaska .) 43 



Coal-land laws extended to Alaska 43 



Amendments to coal-land laws in Alaska 43 



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