SERVICE ORDERS. 



SERVICE ORDER 135. 



(Amends Service Order \o. 100.} 



Classification of Correspondence. 



MAY 2, 1907. 



Hereafter the correspondence of the Forest Service will be divided into three 

 classes, to be known as (a) Service correspondence, (/>) Branch correspondence, 

 and (c) Office correspondence. 



SERVICE CORRESPONDENCE. 



The following classes of Service correspondence and documents will be signed only 

 by the Forester or the Associate Forester: 



1. Letters or papers dealing with or involving questions of policy affecting the 

 entire Service. 



2. Letters to -Senators, Congressmen, high officials, or persons of unusual promi- 

 nence. 



3. Letters which, in the opinion of the assistant foresters in charge of branches, 

 are of sufficient importance to require the signature of the Forester or the Associate 

 Forester. 



4. Very important contracts. 



The following classes of correspondence and documents will be signed by the 

 Assistant Forester in charge of the branch concerned, as Acting Forester: 



1. Letters which relate directly to the business of a branch, but w T hich must, in 

 accordance with law or regulation, be signed by the Forester or Acting Forester. 



2. Letters of authorization. 



3. Contracts binding the Service, but not of sufficient importance to require per- 

 sonal attention by the Forester or the Associate Forester, and which follow estab- 

 lished policies. 



BRANCH roKRESPON'DEXCE. 



Branch correspondence will be prepared for the signature of the Assistant Forester 

 in charge, and will include the following classes: 



1. Letters dealing with questions of policy, affecting the branch, but not the 

 Service as a whole. 



2. Letters involving more than one office of the branch. 



3. Letters pertaining to the work of the branch, addressed to officials of lesser 

 rank or persons less prominent than those indicated under "Service Correspond- 

 ence," paragraph 2. 



4. Letters affecting the personnel of the branch. 



OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE. 



Office correspondence will be prepared for the signature of the Chief of Office and 

 \\i\\ include that which deals specifically with the work of the office, except as pro- 

 vided under " Branch correspondence." 



OVERTON W. PRICE, Associate Forester. 



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