

SERVICE ORDERS 



SERVICE ORDER 35 



MONTHLY LIABILITY STATEMENT 



AUGUST 5, 1909. 



The Liability Statement (Form 159), hitherto rendered monthly, will hereafter 

 be prepared at the end of each quarter only, beginning with September 30, 1909. 



All sections of the Manual of Procedure in conflict with this order are hereby 

 amended. 



OVERTON W. PRICE, 



Associate Forester. 



SERVICE ORDER 36 



PROCEDURE IN FREE USE 



AUGUST 31, 1909. 



Hereafter no record of individual free-use cases except those involving the approval 

 of the District Forester will be kept in supervisors' offices. Rangers will retain the 

 duplicate copy of each permit (Form 874-8), which will be filed alphabetically by 

 name of permittee in a promise-card box. When a case is closed the date of closing 

 and the amount and value of material secured will be entered on the back of the 

 permit. The use of Form 874-14 will be discontinued. 



At the end of the fiscal year, or at other times, if required by the supervisor, each 

 ranger will submit a report giving the number of permits issued and the amount 

 and value of material involved, together with the amount and value of the material 

 actually taken by the permittees. 



Cases requiring the approval of the District Forester should be handled in the 

 same manner as timber-sale cases involving similar amounts, except that the amount 

 of timber cut should not be included in the monthly statement sent to the District 

 Forester by the supervisor, but the total should be reported by the ranger at the 

 end of the year in his annual report. 



Supervisors should inspect the conduct of free-use business, both field and office, 

 :ts often as possible to see that the cases are closed promptly on expiration, and that 

 the free-use policy for the Forest is being carried out. When it is necessary for a 

 permit to be issued from the supervisor's office for the convenience of users, the 

 duplicate should be sent at once to the ranger concerned, but, so far as possible, 

 free-use permits should be issued only by rangers. 



OVERTON W. PRICE, 



Associate Forester. 



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