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Class A: Persons owning and residing upon improved ranch property within 

 or near a National Forest who are dependent upon the National Forest for 

 range and who do not own more than the established protective limit number 

 of stock. 



Class B: Regular users of National Forest range who do not own improved 

 ranch property within or near a National Forest, and persons owning such 

 ranch property who own numbers of stock* in excess of the established pro- 

 tective limits. 



Class C: Persons who are not regular users of National Forest range and who 

 do not own improved ranch property within or near a National Forest. Class C 

 applicants will not be granted permits upon Forests which are fully occupied 

 by permittees of Classes A and B. 



Persons who have not regularly used the range within newly created Na- 

 tional Forests during preceding years will not be allowed to place stock upon 

 it for the purpose of establishing a grazing priority unless they are bona fide 

 settlers living either within or adjacent to the National Forest, who are entitled 

 to share in the use of the range as Class A applicants. 



Permittees of Classes B and C will not be allowed to increase the number of 

 stock grazed under permit except by the purchase of other permitted stock 

 under circumstances which warrant a renewal of the permit held by the original 

 owner. (Issued April 25, 1913, to take effect May 1, 1913.) 



Grazing privilege not a legal right. 



No one can acquire a right to the use of National Forest range, but he may 

 acquire a preference in the allotment of grazing privileges. This preference 

 does not entitle him to continued use of a certain part of a Forest, but only 

 to a preference over other applicants less entitled to consideration in the use 

 of the ranges open to the class of stock which he wishes to graze. These pref- 

 erences of their very nature possess relative degrees of superiority, and conse- 

 quently have a number of gradations. 



New Forests and additions. 



During the first season after the creation of a new Forest or addition grazing 

 privileges will be allotted on the basis of prior use and occupancy. No permit 

 will be granted for a number of stock larger than the average number grazed by 

 the applicant during the two years preceding the establishment of the Forest, 

 unless the applicant, as a Class A settler, is reasonably entitled to increase 

 toward the protective limit. After the first season applicants for grazing per- 

 mits will be given preference in the following order : 



Class A Small near-by owners. 



A Class A owner is one who does not own more than the protective limit 

 number of stock established for the Forest, who owns and resides upon an 

 improved ranch within or adjacent to the Forest, and who is dependent upon 

 the use of the National Forest range in connection with his ranch property. 

 Until the protective limit is defined it is within the discretion of the supervisor 

 to determine whether an applicant is a large or small owner. A firm or corpora- 

 tion can not be considered as a Class A applicant, but may be allowed exemp- 

 tion from reduction below the protective limit. 



Class B All other regular occupants of the range. 



Class B includes owners of improved ranch property and stock in excess of the 

 protective limit and owners of stock either above or below the protective limit 

 who do not own improved ranch property. Copartnerships, companies, and cor- 

 porations may be Class B owners. All permittees in this class must secure 

 their permits on the basis of prior use and occupancy or the purchase of the 

 stock and ranches of persons holding permits. 



There may be several grades of Class B applicants. One who owns a large 

 amount of improved ranch property, or one who resides in the vicinity of the 

 Forest, or who has used tbe range during a long period of years, or who feeds 

 his stock during the winter, may be given preference over one who does not 

 own improved ranch property adjacent to tbe Forast, or who resides at a dis- 

 tance from the Forast, or who has only used the range a few years, or who 

 winters his stock on the range. Class B permittees are subject to sliding-scale 

 reductions, although usually such reductions are not applied to permits for less 

 than the protective limit. 



