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3. Issue five-year permits allowing an owner to graze sheep on a 
specified tract, limiting the number of sheep to be grazed on that tract, 
and giving the owner the exclusive grazing right. 
4, Require as a condition of each permit that the owner use every 
effort to prevent and to extinguish fires on his tract, and report in full 
the cause, extent, and other circumstances connected with each fire. 
5. Reserve the right to terminate a permit immediately if convinced 
that an owner is notshowing good faith in the protection of the forests. 
6. in the allotment of tracts secure the cooperation of the wool 
growers’ associations of Crook, Sherman, and Wasco counties through 
a commission of three stockmen, who shall receive written applications 
for range, adjudicate them, and make recommendations, these recom- 
mendations to be reviewed by the forest officer and finally passed upon 
by the Secretary of the Interior. 
7. Ask tbe county associations to bear the expenses of the commis- 
sion. 
8. Charge the cost of administration of the system to the owners in 
the form of fees for the permits. 
9. If the wool growers decline to accept and to cooperate in the 
proposed system, exclude sheep absolutely from the reserve. 
10. If, after five years’ trial of the system, forest fires continue un- 
checked, exclude sheep thereafter from the reserve. 
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