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    "title": "Order to the Commissioner of the General Land Office from Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock",
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    "ocrText": "Copy\nSECRETARY'S OFFICE\nDEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR\nWASHINGTON. D.C.\nJanuary 3, 1907.\nORDER.\nThe Commissioner\nof the General Land Office.\nSir:\nReferring to the circular of instructions to special\nagents of your office, approved by me on January 29, 1904,\nrelative to their duties under the Act of February 25,1885\n(23 Stats., 321), entitled \"An Act to prevent unlawful\noccupancy of the Public Lands, \" you are advised that said\ncircular is hereby amended and modified as follows:\nStrike out from said circular paragraphs 5 and 6,\nand insert in lieu thereof the following:-\n\"It shall be the duty of the special agent on receipt\nof any charge or complaint or upon information being\nacquired by him from any source, that an unlawful enclosure\nis being maintained by any person or persons, association\nor corporation, to at once proceed to secure sufficient\ndata, including a description of the lands enclosed, with\nreasonable certainty not necessarily by metes and bounds,\nnor by Governmental subdivisions of surveyed land, but\nonly so that the enclosure may be identified and the per-\nson or persons guilty of the violation, as nearly as may be,\nand by description if the name cannot, on reasonable inquiry,\nbe ascertained, and to at once submit such case, with the\ndata thus obtained, to the United States Attorney for\nprosecution.\nIt shall be the duty of the special agent, and he\nshall be so instructed, to be alert and vigilant to de-\ntect the existence of unlawful enclosures in his district\nand to proceed in accordance therewith as hereinabove\ndirected, and that he is not to construe his duties as\nrequiring that, before proceeding in the matter of an"
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