Here is an order signed by the Chief Forester himself: Therefore persons who allow theirstock to drift and cross the various reservations without a permit. whether they do so intentionally or otherwise. will be regarded as trespassers. That might do if it stopped there. but it goes on: And will lose all right to permitted privileges of any kind upon forest reserves. If a man were to permit his stock that he turned out every night from his emigrant wagon in which he was hauling his family across the forest reserve to stray. and they should eat the grass that grew. and if afterwards he were to apply to enter a homestead under the law he would read there: No. you allowed your stock to drIft away from your camp and eat the grass of the Government.
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