184 THE USE BOOK. 



Supervisors are given authority to expend fixed amounts for 

 the administration of their Forests. Liability must not be 

 incurred in excess of allotments. Separate allotments are 

 made for : Salaries, general expenses, permanent improvements. 

 A separate account of expenditures under each of these allot- 

 ments will be kept in the journal of expenses. Transfers from 

 one allotment to another will not be made except by written 

 authority of the Forester. Accounts should be kept in accord- 

 ance with instructions in the journal of expenses, and on the 

 back of Form 99. A separate account of all expenditures from 

 the improvement fund should be kept in the project ledger. 

 Transfers of funds from one authorized project of improve- 

 ment work to another authorized project may be made by the 

 supervisor, but the Forester should in all such cases be promptly 

 notified in order that the proper entry may be made on the 

 card records in the office of engineering. 



The salaries of rangers while engaged on improvement proj- 

 ects, for which the supervisor has been given a specific au- 

 thorization from the improvement fund, will, when proper 

 entry is made on the pay roll and Form 99, be charged against 

 the authorization for these projects, rather than against the 

 allotment for salaries. These entries will be based upon the 

 reports submitted by the rangers on Form 347 accompanying 

 tne monthly Service reports. 



Standard articles of equipment and supplies will be furnished 

 from the Forest Service supply depot, Ogden, Utah, to National 

 Forest officers and to men at field stations in the West. Requi- 

 sitions on revised Form 668 should be sent directly to the sup- 

 ply depot. 



RECORDS. 



RANGERS' RECORDS. 



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All rangers and guards, in addition to recording the neces- 

 sary information and reports upon the regular blank jorms for 

 free use, timber sales, supervision of^cuttmg, fire, pjr- are re 

 quired to keep a diary_of the Forest work or business upon 



