SERVICE NOTES FOE APRIL. 



These notes contain instructions and necessary information to forest 

 officers, and will therefore be carefully read and kept on file for 

 reference. 



SERVICE ORDER 44. 



Distribution of the Loose-Leaf Manual 



The following instructions are issued for the guidance of forest officers 

 concerning the distribution of the loose-leaf Manual : 



The limited edition of the Manual makes necessary the exercise of 

 care in its distribution. Copies for use outside the Forest Service will 

 be issued only by the Forester, to Government or State officials whose 

 duties in connection with Forest Service work make it necessary to 

 supply them with the Manual, and to colleges and universities which 

 have professional forest schools or ranger schools that train men for 

 the Government service. Institutions receiving the Manual will be ex- 

 pected to provide themselves, at their own expense, with binders. 



Binders with full copies of the Manual will be furnished to individual 

 members of the Washington and district offices upon requisition by 

 chiefs of branch and district foresters, and to each Forest on requisi- 

 tion by the supervisor in such numbers as his actual administrative 

 needs may make necessary. The binders will be considered for the 

 present and until further instructions as nonexpendable property and 

 will be accounted for to the property auditor in accordance with the 

 regulations covering such property. 



All men who require, for the efficient discharge of their duties, that 

 they have copies of the Manual should be equipped with them, and 

 only such men. The fact that the binders are nonexpendable property 

 will insure special care in supplying copies to any temporary men who 

 may need to be equipped with the Manual, preventing indiscriminate 

 distribution and insuring return of all copies when the employment 

 terminates. 



As new copies are required on individual Forests in the six western 

 districts because of increases in the number of officers needing to be 

 equipped with the Manual, the necessary copies should be requisitioned 

 from the Ogden Supply Depot. 



As new leaves are issued there will be sent by the Ogden property 

 clerk to each Forest in the six western districts, a number equal to the 

 number of copies of the Manual charged to the supervisor, and to each 

 district forester the number needed by members of his office individually 

 charged with copies. Forest officers in District 7 and members of the 



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