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Show Of Interest to All tlie Farmers Department of the Interior, Secretary's office, Washington, D. C, Jan. 3. Tlie CoiumiS' sioner of the Ocneral Land Office. Of-fice. Sir Referring to the circular cir-cular of instructions to apecial ageuu of )our office, apptoved by me on Jan. 2y, 1904, relative to their duties under the act of, I'eb. 25, (33 Stat.. 321), entitled "Au act to prevent unlawful oc-cupaucy oc-cupaucy ot the public lauds" you are advised that said circular circu-lar it hereby amended and modified mod-ified ftj follows: inwiMnW wi Strfff out from said circular paragRfflts 5 and 6, and insert in licufijiereof the following. It Mjl be the duty of the spcciOTgent on receipt of any clinrjror complaint or upon inform in-form !En bung ncqttircd by him front tH' source, that an unlaw-1 fill rtloitire is being main-' tainc IJuy ait) person or persons, assoefcuron, or corporation, to 1 at 011 efprocccd to secure at fft-cieut fft-cieut thtn, including a descrip tion T the lands inclosed, with rcast ua'ble certainty, not ncccs-sarilrtby ncccs-sarilrtby metes and bounds, nor by Governmental subdUisiaus of suwecd land, but only so that JJie enclosure may be iden-tifiedJarid iden-tifiedJarid tlae person or persons guiltK of the violation, as nearly as jny be, ami by description if the nTuie can not, on reasonable . ,, . iu. inquiry, be ascertained, and to at once submit such ciise, with the date thus obtained, to the United States attorney for prosecution. prose-cution. It shall be the duty of the special spe-cial atcnt, and he shall be so instructed, to be alert and vigilant vigi-lant to detect the existence ot unlawful iuclosures in his district dis-trict and to proceed 111 accordance accor-dance therewith as hereinabove directed, and that he is not to construe his duties as requiring that, before proceeding in the matter of an unlawful inclosurc, there must first be filed with him a formal complaint by some person or persons acquainted with the facts, but it shall be his duty, as hereinabove Mated, to take the initiative himself. Iu this connection you arc further instructed, by direction , " 'iftfl of the President, to at once , WM notify all of the special agents , H and receivers and registers &" ' 'sffl local land offices throughout Oetr vsL United States, and to give tltc 4 W widest publicity thereto that the? JR provisions of said net of FcU. , MM 5 1 ,885i ft" the summary tic- J H struction of iuclosures anal ol- jH strttctiuns existing in violation j j B of said act will be rigidly en- ' H forced on and after April 1, 1 H 1907. Htspcctfully, l H H. A. Hitchcock5,, ' "B Secretary of the Interior- H |