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applicant has made a deposit, covering the value of the timber to be cut, 

 and removed, and has agreed to pay for all timber actually cut under the 

 privilege of advance cutting at the rate of the highest price bid for the 

 whole amount of timber advertised, or, if no bids are received, at the rate 

 named in the advertisement. When necessary to protect the Government 

 against loss a bond will be required. 



Reg. S-9. After any timber has been advertised and no satisfac- 

 tory bid has been received, or if the bidder fails to 

 Private sale. complete the purchase, Forest officers may, within 

 their authorization, dispose of it at private sale, in 

 quantities to suit purchasers, without further advertisement, at prices not 

 lower than those named in the advertisement. 



Timber may also be disposed of at private sale without advertisement 

 where the stumpage value of the timber does not exceed $100. 



Reg. S-io. In awarding advertised timber of a value exceeding 



$5,000, allotments at the highest price offered may be 



Prevention of made to several bidders to prevent monopoly. Bids 



monopoly. Azvard submitted by parties who have trespassed upon any Na- 



of sales to tres- tional Forest will not be considered unless full settle- 



passers. ment has been previously made for such trespass. 



Reg. S-ii. Timber cut from any National Forest may be exported 

 from the State or Territory in which the National 

 Exportation of Forest is situated, except that from the Black Hills Na- 

 timher. tional Forest in South Dakota only dead and insect- 



infested timber may be exported from the State, and 

 this only until the date upon which the Forester shall certify that the 

 ravages of the destructive insects in said Forest are practically checked, 

 but in no case after such date or dates as Congress has specified or shall 

 hereafter specify. Timber cut from any National Forest in Alaska may 

 be exported therefrom and sold anywhere, upon certification by the super- 

 visor that the timber has been purchased and cut from a National Forest 

 in Alaska. 



Reg. S-12. No trees on National Forest lands, or from any un- 

 patented claim within National Forests, shall be cut, 

 Conditions of or otherwise killed, injured, or destroyed, except under 

 sale. permit or where allowed by law in the development of 



claim. 

 No trees on any unpatented claim within National Forests shall be filed 

 with the Forest Supervisor, except in emergencies arising from insect in- 

 festation. 



No live trees shall be cut under any contract until marked or otJierwise 

 designated by a Forest Ofiicer. 



No timber cut under any contract shall be removed from the place 

 selected for scaling, measuring, or counting until it has been scaled, 

 measured, or counted, and stamped by a Forest Ofiicer. 



No person except a Forest Officer shall stamp any timber belonging to 

 the United States upon a National Forest with the regulation marking axe 

 or with any instrument having a similar design. 



All saw timber will be scaled by Scribner Decimal C log rule, as used 

 by the Forest Service. 



Reg. S-13. The period allowed for the removal of timber, which 



in no instance shall exceed five years, except in special 



Time limits. cases upon specific approval by the Secretary, will be 



fixed in the agreement, and in sales in which a period 



of two or more years is allowed for the removal of the timber, tJie mini- 



