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(c) To require standardized accounting systems; periodical re- 

 ports on production, orders, shipments, sales, distribution, 

 stocks on hand, costs of production, and returns ; and a special 

 account of the increased costs, if any, of regulated over un- 

 regulated logging, showing also the direct and indirect gains 

 under regulation. The Federal Trade Commission would 

 assign such field agents to this work as might be necessary 

 to obtain accurate results. 



(d) To withdraw its supervision and make only such occasional 

 inspections as may be necessary, whenever an organized forest 

 unit proves itself capable of taking direct charge of the work 

 of forest protection and perpetuation in its forests and gives 

 assurance that the standards attained will be continued. 



The Government would retain power to renew its super- 

 vision in case the public welfare so demanded. 



(e) To control production whenever such action is necessary for 

 the public good in times of economic stress. 



(/) To sanction the co-operative combination of lumber manu- 

 facturers for all purposes resulting in economies in production 

 and marketing whenever, in the judgment of the Commission, 

 such co-operative combination will promote the public interest. 



(g) To acquire for the United States the title or control of for- 

 est lands, both timbered and cut-over — 



1. By purchase of the entire fee or of surface rights. 



2. By a system of long-time leases. 



3. By designating general areas within which title to all 

 forest lands should pass to the Government by condemnation 

 upon the completion of logging operations. 



(Compensation under the above methods should be made 

 either from funds appropriated or from the sale of long-term 

 serial bonds.) 



4. By gift. 



5. By defraying the additional expenses of regulated logging 

 as a means of acquiring title or control. 



6. By the issuance of certificates receivable in payment for 

 National Forest timber, ripe and approved for cutting, to be 

 cut under National Forest rules and regulations, such certifi- 

 cates to be used for the purchase of the title to land (entire 

 fee or surface) and timber privately owned within or adjacent 



