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RECORD. 



Accounts. 



Careful adherence on the part of members of the Service to the instructions printed 

 under the heading " Supervisors' accounts," The Use Book, page 120, will be a great 

 help in getting accounts settled promptly. The direction that accounts on Form 3, 

 Form 4, or Form A be not submitted in duplicate is disregarded by some members; 

 the result is inconvenience and loss of time in the Section of Accounts. The failure 

 of a number of members to send in with their accounts Form 99 or Form 98, as the 

 case may require, makes it necessary to delay the settlement of their accounts until 

 the form is received. 



Accounts for unusually heavy expenses for services or supplies in righting fires 

 need not be held until the end of the month to be rendered with monthly reimburse- 

 ment accounts, but may be submitted immediately after the expenses have been in- 

 curred and paid. Great care should be taken, however, in these emergency accounts 

 to have only expenses of lire fighting included. 



The object of this is to enable officers of the reserves to be reimbursed promptly 

 for advances made by them for fire fighting expenses from their own personal funds. 



If for any reason receipts or other evidence required to support charges in any 

 monthly account can not be secured in time, these charges should be omitted from 

 the account for that month. The remaining portion of such an account can thus be 

 rendered in the usual manner. Items of expense omitted in this way from any 

 monthly account may be submitted in any subsequent account, after the required 

 receipts or evidence are secured. 



Supplies. 



The Instrument Committee is responsible for maintaining the standard not only of 

 instruments but of all equipment and supplies intended for use in the field. Sugges- 

 tions for. new equipment or for changes in existing types for consideration by this 

 committee should be sent to the Forester. 



A change has been made in the pattern of the Century camera hitherto in use by 

 the Service. The film-pack adapter was found to give results uniformly out of focus, 

 and the film-roll holder was substituted for it. The cameras of the Service are being 

 remodeled as rapidly as possible, and only those of the new type will be issued. 



The existing pattern of marking ax has been found unsatisfactory, and the Service 

 has called for bids on a new model with a longer but narrower marking head, of 

 thicker and more beveled blade, and of a better grade of steel. In the meantime 

 a supply of suitable axes for immediate needs has been procured in order to avoid 

 delay in carrying on necessary work on the reserves. 



Tables will be furnished for office use both in Washington and in the field, instead 

 of the ordinary office desk. This change will make effective the instructions in 

 Service Order No. 106 against putting unanswered letters or any other papers deal- 

 ing with unfinished current business in drawers or pigeonholes. The table adopted 



