NATIONAL FOREST WORK 



495 



Time: 



1. When hired at points involving a trip 

 by rail or boat, fare and expenses while en 

 route to points of disembarkation from the 

 railroad will be met by the Service but no 

 time allowed. 



To protect the Service, the cost of trans- 

 portation expenses en route should be de- 

 ducted on the time slip if the man fails to 

 work for a period of at least ten days, if 

 needed. This rule should apply in case of 

 discharge for inefficiency or other cause ex- 

 cept on account of not being needed. Con- 

 tracts will cover this point, but will not 

 stipulate that no time will be allowed un- 

 less service has been rendered for at least 

 10 days. The form to be used is as follows: 



United States Department of Agriculture. 



Forest Service. 



Waiver. 



L, , having been employed 



by the Forest Service, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, to flght fire on or 

 adjacent to the national forests, in consid- 

 eration of transportation furnished by the 

 said Forest Service, from the place of em- 

 ployment to the point where my services 

 may be required, and other valuable con- 

 sideration, do hereby agree to work at least 

 10 days at such points as I may be assigned, 

 and do hereby agree to have the cost of 

 transportation and expenses en route de- 

 ducted from the amount due me should I 

 fail to complete 10 days' work, unless said 

 employment be sooner terminated by the 

 officers of the Forest Service because not 

 longer needed. 



2. When hired locally, time will be al- 

 lowed from point at which hired, time to 

 begin when start to fire is made; and 

 when not hired locally time allowed from 

 point of disembarkation on the railroad 

 when start to the fire is made. 



3. If the crew walks to the fire, time shall 

 be allowed going in, the time to be fixed by 

 the forest officer in charge, provided, if a 

 man does not work at least two days if 

 needed, his time going in shall not be al- 

 lowed. 



4. If wagon transportation Is provided, 

 time going in shall not be allowed. 



5. Time will be allowed during subse- 

 quent transfers between fires. 



6. Men who voluntarily quit or are dis- 

 charged on account of inefficiency shall 

 have their time and expenses both cease 

 when they quit work. 



7. All men who remain on the fire un- 

 til discharged on account of not being 

 needed will be allowed time walking back 

 from the fire line to the railroad or the 

 point at which hired. 



8. Rail transportation shall not be al- 

 lowed to the point where men are paid off, 

 but the forest officer in charge may secure 

 a ticket for such men as have no money 



on a Government transportation request 

 making a note of the deduction to be made 

 on the time slip and the number of the 

 transportation request. 



9. When at work in the fire camp, time 

 shall be allowed for going to and return- 

 ing from the fire, provided that the ranger 

 or foreman in charge, sets a time limit for 

 the trip. As a general thing this should 

 be the time in which he himself would 

 make it. 



10. Time should be turned in on the regu- 

 lar slips, form 874-15. All entries and sig- 

 natures should be in ink or indelible pen- 

 cil. No erasures of any character will be 

 allowed on time slips. Time books of the 

 ordinary type should be used in recording 

 time in the field. To make available a sup- 

 ply of such books by requisition from the 

 Ogden Supply Depot, the matter is now 

 being taken up. 



11. All accounts for commissary articles 

 such as tobacco, blankets, shoes, etc., should 

 be entered on the time slip and the amount 

 deducted from the total amount due. The 

 cash receipt should in all cases be signed 

 for the full amount but payment should 

 be made for the actual amount due. It is 

 impossible to make deductions where pay- 

 ments are made by officials' checks. Where 

 necessary to avoid mailing official check, 

 cash payments may be made and a form 

 4 A sub-voucher taken and submitted for 

 reimbursement on form 4. With the sys- 

 tem of payments already outlined to you 

 this should be necessary only in very ex- 

 ceptional cases. Where transportation re- 

 quest is used and a deduction is to be made, 

 the cash receipt, should be made out for 

 the amount on the time slip, minus the de- 

 duction, since the Government has already 

 covered the amount due the railroad com- 

 pany with the request as a voucher. 



12. In working on fires, twelve hours 

 should be usually considered the maximum 

 time per day. Time should not be allowed 

 for over this amount unless it is impossible 

 to avoid it and then only for short periods. 

 Long shifts running up to 20 hours or more 

 should be held to the extreme minimum. 

 This should usually be not more than one 

 shift of 20 hours or more per week. No 

 hard and fast rule can be allowed in this 

 but the standard above should serve as a 

 guide to hold excessive time to the mini- 

 mum. 



14. In all cases the addresses of the men 

 employed together with the names of the 

 person they wish notified in case of acci- 

 dent should be kept in the time book in 

 the space to be provided for this purpose. 



The following list is given as a guide 

 when ordering food supplies for crews of 

 men. This list is a result of long field 

 experience of the U. S. Geological Survey. 

 A ration is the amount of food necessary 

 to subsist one man one day: 



