UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

‘S,\ FOREST SERVICE.

AMENDMENT NO. 32 TO THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL, 1912—
CLAIMS, SETTLEMENT, ADMINISTRATIVE SITES. (REGULA-
TIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND INSTRUC-
TIONS TO FOREST OFFICERS RELATING TO CLAIMS, SETTLE-
MENT, AND ADMINISTRATIVE SITES ON NATIONAL FOREST
LANDS.)

Effective on and after March 1, 1914.

Unirep Srates DeparTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.

Page 26 of the National Forest Manual, 1912, Settlement, issued
by the Secretary of Agriculture, to take effect February 1, 1912, is
hereby amended by adding the following regulation:

Regulation L-56.—An application for nontimbered, listable
agricultural land embraced in a subsisting unperfected entry will
be returned to the applicant unless it sets forth the fact that the
applicant has initiated a contest against the entry, and who, but
for the fact of the land being within a National Forest, would suc-
ceed to the rights granted by section 2 of the act of May 14, 1880
(21 Stat., 140), as amended by the act of July 26, 1892 (27 Stat.,
970), in which case a notation will be made upon the record of the
receipt of such application and of the pending contest. The appli-
cation will be returned to the applicant with the statement that if
the contest results in canceilation of entry the application may be
reinstated as of the date of final conclusion of the contest, if filed
within 30 days succeeding the period in which the contestee has
right of review. Such application will, however, confer no right
upon the applicant unless the land is finally listed or eliminated from
the Forest.

Done at Washington, D. C., this 16th day of February, 1914.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Department of Agriculture.
B. T. GaLttoway,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.

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WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1914

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