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Illegal occupancy of ranger station sites. 



The United States may maintain a suit in equity for an interlocu- 

 tory mandatory injunction and a final decree of abatement to restrain 

 continuous trespass and waste upon public land which has been with- 

 drawn from sale and devoted to governmental use for a ranger station 

 in connection with a forest reservation. (United States v. Hodges et 

 ux., 218 Fed., 87.) 



Payment of State fees on shipment of horses. 



Payment of cost of mallein test for glanders required on interstate 

 shipment of ranger's horses not authorized by General Order No. 145. 

 (2 Sol. Op., 1025.) 



LANDS. 



CLAIMS WITHIN" NATIONAL FOEESTS. 



To the Commissioner, chief of field service, chiefs of field divisions, 

 registers and receivers, General Land Office, Department of the 

 Interior; the Forester, district foresters, Forest Service, the .So- 

 licitor, and district assistants to the Solicitor, Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Gentlemen : Better to effectuate cooperation in protecting the in- 

 terests of the Government and settlers and other claimants to lands 

 within National Forests, the following order is made, effective on 

 and after October 1, 1915, superseding order of November 25, 1910 

 (39 L. D., 374) : 



1. Hereafter, when a person files application to make entry, or to 

 amend an existing entry, embracing lands within a National Forest, 

 basing the right of entry, or amendment, on settlement prior to the 

 establishment of the forest, the register and receiver will require such 

 person to file with his application a statement under oath, in dupli- 

 cate, containing his name and address, description and character of 

 the land involved, the date he established residence on the land, his 

 absence from the land, kind and character of improvements placed 

 thereon, and the amount of land cleared and cultivated, accompanied 

 by the affidavit, in duplicate, of at least one disinterested person, 

 corroborating the statement. The register and receiver will imme- 

 diately forward the duplicate of such statement and affidavit to the 

 supervisor of the National Forest in which the lands are embraced, 

 with information as to the date of filing the application, the date 

 of filing the township plat of survey covering the land, and any 

 other facts of record affecting the application, and will suspend 

 action on the application for 60 days, or upon the request of the 

 forest supervisor, where climatic or other conditions require, for such 

 time, not to exceed 6 months, as will enable him to make an examina- 

 tion of the claim, unless in the meantime they shall receive notice 

 of no protest, as hereinafter provided. 



2. The register and receiver, in issuing notice of intention to make 

 final proof upon claims, either mineral or nonmineral, within a 

 National Forest, shall immediately furnish a copy thereof to the 

 supervisor in charge of such forest, and, other than to publish such 

 notice and receive final proof, will, except in mineral cases as herein- 



