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definite statements of their needs and wishes that the organization of stock 

 associations is encouraged. 



RECOMMENDATIONS OF ADVISORY BOARDS. 



Matters submitted by advisory boards should be of general rather than indi- 

 vidual or personal interest. It is not within the province of an advisory board 

 to determine whether a new applicant shall be admitted or a renewal of permit 

 granted a purchaser. An individual case, however, may contain a principle in 

 which a large number of permittees are interested, in which event it may 

 properly be taken up. 



SPECIAL RULES FOR HANDLING STOCK. 



Special rules designed to bring about economies of operation, larger natural 

 increases, improved grades of live stock, etc.. are not to be drafted or enforced 

 except upon specific request of the majority of the permittees who will be 

 affected. 



No rule will be established that is not designed to accomplish some specific 

 result generally beneficial to the majority of the permittees or that is not 

 clearly within the limitations of the State or Federal statutes concerning live 

 stock. 



Rules approved by the district forester will be binding upon all permittees, 

 whether members of the association or not. 



REQUIREMENTS FOR RECOGNITION. 



Live-stock associations desiring to take advantage of Regulation G-3 must file 

 an application with the supervisor, giving the names of all members, the 

 name of the Forest in which its members are interested, and the names of the 

 committeemen who are to act fo,r the association. The advisory board must 

 consist of not more than five members, who must be users of the National 

 Forest, and a majority of the board must constitute a quorum. 



The application must be accompanied by a copy of the constitution and 

 by-laws and a statement that the action of the board will be binding upon the 

 association. These by-laws must provide that all persons who are permitted to 

 graze the kind of stock represented by the association will 'be eligible to mem- 

 bership. The application of a minority association must also be accompanied 

 by a petition signed by sufficient permittees to constitute a majority. 



PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS UPON RANGE. 



REGULATION G-4. Live-stock associations which have received official rec- 

 ognition from the Forest Service may be granted permits to construct, upon 

 the ranges occupied by their members, corrals, drift and division fences, roads, 

 trails, sources of water supply, and other forms of permanent improvement 

 designed to protect the Forest lands or to facilitate the handling of permitted 

 stock. In cases where the total cost of construction is met by the association, 

 no part being contributed by the Government, the district forester may, in his 

 discretion, stipulate and agree in the permit that during a period of 10 years 

 following the construction of an improvement all permittees who are allowed 

 to place stock upon the range controlled or benefited by the improvement will 

 be required to pay into the treasury of the association an amount equal to 

 their pro rata share of the cost of constructing the improvement, provided 

 that the improvement has been and is being maintained in serviceable con- 

 dition by the association. The initial pro rata charge will be determined by 

 dividing the amount expended by the full number of stock which may be 

 grazed upon the range controlled or directly benefited by the improvement, but 

 a reduction of 10 per cent of the original amount, to cover benefit and de- 

 preciation, will be made during each of the nine succeeding years, and after 

 the tenth year the improvement will become the property of the Government. 

 Stock which is exempted from permit by the regulations will not be subject 

 to assessment under this rule. (Issued April 25, 1913, to take effect May 1, 



NECESSARY CHARACTER. 



Before approving a special-use permit, which provides for the payment of a 

 pro rata share of the cost of construction by each permittee, the district for- 



