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To instruct them in writing as to their duties and supervise 

 their work; 



To be responsible for seeing that during actual danger periods 

 each Federal employee keeps a vigilant lookout for forest fires 

 and makes every possible effort to have such fires extinguished 

 whether they occur on lands belonging to the State, the Federal 

 Government or a private owner and to see that during other 

 times each such employee, if hired for continuous service, be 

 kept engaged in other fire protection work upon the areas 

 approved under this agreement ; and 



To make such inspection of the work done under this agree- 

 ment as may be necessary to promote the effectiveness of said 

 work. 



3. To expend the Federal funds (allotted as hereinafter 

 provided) exclusively for the hire of lookout watchmen or pa- 

 trolmen unless otherwise specifically authorized in advance by 

 the Forester ; 



To regulate such Federal expenditures so that during any 

 Federal fiscal year they shall not exceed the amount appro- 

 priated and expended by the State during the same period for 

 the purpose of protecting from fire forested watersheds of 

 navigable streams in the United States ; 



To regulate the expenditure of Federal and State funds from 

 month to month throughout the fire season as far as practicable 

 in the proportion of the total Federal allotment to the total 

 State budget for the cooperative area provided for herein, and 

 in the event of the State expenditure throughout the current 

 calendar year falling below the said total State budget, the pro- 

 posed Federal expenditure will be decreased proportionately: 

 Provided that, subject to agreement, not to exceed twenty (20) 

 per cent of said budget may "be set aside as a reserve and 1 it- 

 exempt from the above conditions of expenditure ; 



To submit to the Forester on or before the fifteenth of each 

 month a statement showing such expenditures from both Fed- 

 eral and State funds during the preceding calendar month ; and 

 To certify by telegram or letter to the Forester in asking 

 for an increase of allotment or waiver in the manner of ex- 

 penditure above prescribed the facts establishing the existence 

 of an extraordinary fire hazard and the need for such increase 

 or waiver. 



