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or fractional month on vouchers certified by the said land agent 

 as collaborator, and forwarded to the Forester, Forest Service, 

 Washington, D. C, provided that no patrolman will be employed 

 except during the real danger season from forest fires on the 

 watersheds and areas approved by the said Secretary under this 

 agreement. 



9. The said Secretary and his authorized representative shall 

 have full authority to inspect the protective areas and the force 

 herein authorized, and at his option, by giving the said land 

 agent written notice, may withdraw his approval of any such 

 area or portion thereof, or terminate the employment of any 

 Federal patrolman or patrolmen or of the said land agent as 

 collaborator in the Forest Service. 



10. The said land agent shall be responsible for seeing that 

 each patrolman keeps a vigilant lookout for forest fires in or 

 threatening his district, and that he makes every possible eflfort 

 to extinguish such fires as occur whether they are on lands 

 belonging to the State, the Federal Government, or a private 

 owner, provided that during the patrol period when in the judg- 

 ment of the State land agent patrol is unnecessary the patrolmen 

 may be used on other fire-protection work. The said land agent 

 or his representative shall from time to time make such per- 

 sonal inspection of cooperative fire protection work done under 

 this agreement as may be necessary to promote the effectiveness 

 of said work. 



11. The said land agent shall, with respect to all private for- 

 est land afforded protection against fire under this agreement, 

 use ever)^ proper means to bring about the active cooperation of 

 the owner in such protection, including aid from him in the 

 form of hire of one or more patrolmen, construction of per- 

 manent improvements, and the like. 



12. Both the State land agent and the Forest Service of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture shall have equal right 

 to publisfh the results of the cooperation under this agreement: 

 Provided, That any results intended for publication, except 

 press notices of momentary or local interest, be approved by 

 the said land agent and by the said Secretary. In all such pub- 

 lications it shall be plainly stated that the results were secured 

 through cooperation between the said land agent and the said 

 Secretary. 



