Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-09-25
CUSTER CITY DAKOTA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1915

trict assistant to the solicitor will be en-
tered of record as appearing in behalf OF
| the Government, and will conduct the
| Governments side of the case
8. Forest lieu and school selection
! cases will be handled by the chiefs OF
| field division of the General Land Office
in like manner as heretofore The fer
est officers will, upon request of the
chiefs of field division, render any MS
sistanCe possible in the making of inves-
legations, and the district assistants to
the solicitor Of the Department Of Agri-
culture will cooperate with the chiefs
of field division in the conduct of hear
ings III such cases, and thereafter will
take action in like manner as heretofore,
including the taking of appeals to the
Secretary of the Interior.
9. In all Government cases before
registers and receivers involving lands
or claims within natOnal forest, the
district assistant TO the solicitor shall be
served with copies OF all answers, ap-
peals, motions, orders, and decisions re-
quired to be noted under the rules in
private contests. The proper law off
GERS of the Department Of Agriculture
shall also have a right Of appeal from
any decision by the Commissioner ofthe
General Land Office and TO file motion
for rehearing in the Department Of the
Interior, or take other like action in the
same manner as a private contestant,
and shall receive like notices of proceed
ings and decisions Provided however.
That the Department of Agriculture
shall not be required to take formal ap.
peals from decisions of registers and
receivers.
TO- Chiefs Of field division and special
agents will not hereafter take action in
regard to any claims within a national
forest, except as provided in paragraph
S hereof, unless specifically directed by
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office or the Secretary of the Interior
Provided, That chiefs Of field division
may, on request of district forester,
assign mineral examiners to assist in
the investigation of cases involving min
ing claims.
IL. Costs of hearings will be paid
from the appropriation for expenses of
hearings in land entries as now provid-
ed for other Government contests. Prior
to June lst of each year the district as.
sistant to the solicitor viii mail TO the
chief Of field division in whose division
the lands involved lie an estimate of the
funds necessary to cover the hearings
during the first quarter of the ensuing
fiscal year. Like action will be taken on
the first day Of each month which imme-
diateIy precedes the other quarters of
the fiscal year. Such estimates should
be accompanied by a list Of the cases to
be heard, which should include the
names of claimants, local land Office, and
serial number of entry or application,
and character of entries or filings The
chief Of field division will transmit the
lists and estimates received from the
district assistant to the solicitor to the
Commissioner of the General Land OF.
fee at the same time he submits his
estimates for hearings involving lands
in his district outside of national forests.
When these lists and estimates are re-
ceived in the General Land Office the
appropriation will be allotted for the
quarter, and each chief of field division
will be advised of the amount which
will be allowed for forest cases, and he
will advise the district assistant to the
solicitor thereof Payment for the ex-
penses Of hearings from the appropria-
tiOn SO allotted will be made by special
disbursing agents upon proper vouchers,
as is now provided for Government CON
tests in cases outside of national forests,
but such vouchers must be approved by
the district assistant to the solicitor and
by the chief of field division before pay.
ment is made.