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At the expiration of the term permit the 5 per cent clause to provide for 

 new owners ceases to be binding on the Service, and the application is subject 

 to any percentage of reduction before it is renewed that is effective on the 

 Forest at the time. 



PERMITS TO PURCHASERS OF PERMITTED STOCK. 



REGULATION G-18. Permits will be granted only for the exclusive use and 

 benefit of the owners of the stock and will be forfeited if sold or transferred 

 in any manner or for any consideration. If stock grazed under permit is sold 

 during the term of the permit the original permit must be surrendered to the 

 supervisor, who, upon receipt of evidence that 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 number of stock retained and a permit to the pur- 

 chaser 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 

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

 restrictions and to necessary reductions applicable to other permits 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 purchaser of stock grazed 

 under permit and the ranches used in connection 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 per- 

 mitted stock, a renewal of permit may be allowed for not to exceed 80 per cent 

 of the stock purchased. (Issued April 25, 1913, to take effect May 1, 1913.) 



Sale of stock after approval of application. 



Where stock is sold after the application for a grazing permit has been 

 approved and prior to the beginning of the grazing period, the application of 

 the purchaser may he approved upon his merits, subject to the reductions 

 governing the issue of permits to the purchasers of stock. 



Purchaser must observe original requirements. 



All conditions, stipulations, and agreements which were binding upon the 

 original permittee will also be binding upon the purchaser of permitted stock, 

 and a renewal of permit may be denied for failure to observe all requirements. 

 For example : A permit issued upon condition that the stock would be fed during 

 the winter upon the products of the permittee's ranch will not be renewed to a 

 purchaser of the stock except upon the same condition, and will be discon- 

 tinued upon failure of the purchaser to observe the terms of the stipulation. 



Qualifications of purchaser. 



No renewal of permit will be granted to a purchaser of permitted stock unless 

 he is qualified, by ownership of ranch property and in other requisite ways, to 

 share in the use of the Forest ranges. 



Purchase of stock by owner of improved ranch. 



A purchaser of permitted stock who owns ranch property commensurate and 

 so located that it will be used in connection with the stock, or who acquires 

 such property from persons other than the original permittee, may be allowed 

 a renewal of permit for not to exceed 80 per cent of the number of permitted 

 stock purchased, provided that the maximum limit restriction is not exceeded. 



