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mum amount to be removed each year must be specified, except in unusual 

 cases. The Secretary may, in his discretion, when circumstances warrant, 

 extend the time beyond a period of five years; but such extension will be 

 granted only to prevent hardship in cases where the failure to remove the 

 timber within the five-year period is due to circumstances over which the 

 purchaser had no control. 



Reg. S-14. The officer approving any timber-sale contract may re- 

 quire the purchaser to furnish a bond for the satisfac- 

 Bonds. tory completion of the contract. 



Reg. S-15. The disapproval of an application for the purchase of 

 timber or for the modification of an existing contract 

 Appeals. by the officer authorized to approve such application 



shall be considered final unless written notice of appeal 

 to the next superior officer. District Forester, Forester, or Secretary, as the 

 case may be, is filed with the officer disapproving such application within 

 30 days from the receipt of his decision. All appeals arising from the 

 enforcement or execution of the provisions of a timber-sale contract shall 

 be made in the first instance to the Forest supervisor. His decision 

 thereon shall be considered final unless written notice of appeal to the dis- 

 trict forester is filed with the supervisor within 15 days from the receipt 

 of his decision. Appeals from the decisions of the District Forester to the 

 Forester or from the decisions of the Forester to the Secretary may be 

 made by filing written notice from the officer from whose decision appeal 

 is taken within 15 days from the receipt of such decision. 



Reg. S-16. The use of steam engines or steam locomotives in oper- 

 ation on National Forest lands under any timber-sale 

 Use of steam contract or under any permit is prohibited unless they 

 engines or are equipped with such spark arresters as shall be 

 locomotives approved by the Forest Supervisor, or unless oil is 

 used exclusively for fuel. 



Sales are classified into four classes : namely A., Ranger's under 

 $50.00; B., Supervisor's under $100.00; C, Supervisor's advertised 

 under 2,000,000 as authorized ; D., District Forester's above A., B., 

 or C. In unadvertised sales (under $100) officers use the special 

 short form of contract given below; the clauses in this form are 

 seldom varied. The procedure in making a sale of timber is fully 

 explained in the timber section of the Manual. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 FOREST SERVICE. 



Timber Sale. 



(Date) 



National Forest. 



The timber designated herein is hereby sold to 



of , who agrees to take before 



(Give date of closure, 



all the merchantable dead timber standing 



always last day of some month.) 



