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will be obviated if requisitions are made March 1 and September 1 for routine 

 supplies needed during the ensuing six months, in accordance with the instruc- 

 tions printed on page 111 of " The Use Book." 



Photographic Laboratory. 



Rolls of films sent out from the Service are plainly marked with the date after 

 which they should not be used because of deterioration, and members are ex- 

 pected to return them to the photographer at the date given, if unused. The 

 observance of this rule will insure good results from exposures, and will also 

 save the writing of letters calling for the return of the expired films. 



Mail. 



Postage stamps in payment of the registry fee must be affixt when official 

 matter is sent by registered mail by one forest officer to another or to the Service 

 at Washington. The penalty frank provided for official mail takes the place of 

 the ordinary postage but not of the additional charge for registering. Reim- 

 bursement is made in the monthly expense account if the postmaster's receipt for 

 the registered matter is submitted as voucher. 



Personal mail of all classes addrest to members of the Service is forwarded 

 without the payment of additional postage if the postmaster at the forwarding 

 office is informed that the address is changed by official orders, either by the use 

 of a rubber stamp or by sending postal card Form 560. 



GRAZING. 



A. F. Potter, inspector of grazing, returned to Washington November 25. 

 The grazing arrangements and authorizations for 1907 will be taken up and 

 acted upon without delay. 



RESERVE ORGANIZATION. 



Telegraphic messages, unless paid for and submitted in monthly accounts, are 

 not charged to the reserve authorization, but are paid from a general fund set 

 aside for that purpose. 



After repeated requests to submit Form 99 with every expense account 

 rearly 50 per cent of accounts are received from officers in charge without this 

 form attached. This causes much unnecessary clerical work in the Washing- 

 ton office. A cost-keeping system by projects and lines of work is now in opera- 

 tion for all expenditures of the Forest Service, and it is necessary that this 

 form accompany each Form 4 or Form A voucher, in order that the account 

 can be properly apportioned among the different items. 



To avoid delay in the payment of accounts this form, when omitted, has 

 heretofore been made out in this office, but in the future the officer in charge 



