102 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



GRAZING. 



There are no statutes specifically relating to grazing upon the Na- 

 tional Forests. The grazing regulations are based on the provision 

 in the act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat, 11, 35), which reads as follows: 



" The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the protec- 

 tion against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public for- 

 ests and forest reservations which may have been set aside or which 

 may be hereafter set aside under the said act of March third, eight- 

 een hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued; and he 

 may make such rules and regulations and establish such service as 

 will insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their 

 occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruc- 

 tion; and any violation of the provisions of this act or such rules 

 and regulations shall be punished as is provided for in the act of 

 June fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section 

 fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Eevised Statutes of the 

 United States.'' 



DECISIONS. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has the authority to make a charge 

 for the use of lands in a National Forest for grazing. (United 

 States v. Grimaud et al., 220 U. S., 506, 522.) 



The usual grazing permit constitutes merely a license revocable 

 at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture. (2 Sol. Op., 895.) 



A person who has secured a waiver of grazing privileges in his 

 favor can not rely on the prior issuance of a permit to the person 

 from whom he purchased as creatng an estoppel aganst the Govern- 

 ment to cancel the permit, there being no mutuality between the Gov- 

 ernment and such transferee. (Id.) 



The Forest Service may collect the usual kidding or lambing 

 charge for kidding or lambing on an unperfected mining claim with- 

 in a National Forest where the claimant waives his right to exclu- 

 sive possession under the mining laws. (2 Sol. Op., 865.) 



For decisions relating to grazing trespasses, see " Trespass, grazing," post, 

 p. 116. 



TRESPASSES. 



National Forest rales and regulations. 



Act of June 4. 1897 (30 Stat., 11). 

 The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the protec- 

 tion against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public 

 forests and forest reservations which may have been set aside or 

 which may be hereafter set aside under the said act of March third, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued: and 

 he may make such rules and regulations and establish such service as 

 will insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their 

 occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruc- 

 tion ; and any violation of the provisions of this act or such rules and 

 regulations shall be punished as is provided for in the act of June 

 fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty- eight, amending section fifty- 



