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Transfer of Grazing Tees 



Grazing fees paid on any Forest may be transferred to the credit of a per- 

 mit for the same grazing period on another Forest, but under no circumstances 

 will a transfer be made from one permittee to another or from one grazing 

 year to another. All adjustments of grazing-fee permits, except as first men- 

 tioned, must be made by means of refunds. 



BRANCH OF OPERATION. 



OFFICE OF MAINTENANCE. 



Property Accounting 1 on the National Forests 



A Service Order giving instructions in regard to a new system of property 

 accounting on the National Forests, to take effect June 1, 1908, will be pointed 

 in the Field Program for May. By this system two records will be kept by 

 supervisors, one designated " Forest Accountability," and the other " Individual 

 Accountability." Under the head of Forest Accountability, will be recorded all 

 nonexpendable property for which the supervisor is accountable and responsible. 

 Under Individual Accountability will be kept an individual record of all non- 

 expendable property issued to subordinates and all property kept on hand by the 

 supervisors. 



On June 1, 1908, each supervisor will prepare an inventory on Form 939, and 

 send it to the Forester. From this inventory the supervisor will make up both 

 the Forest and Individual Accountability records. The aggregate number of 

 articles in each class in the Individual Accountability record must in every case 

 equal the number of articles on the cards for the corresponding class in the 

 Forest Accountability record. Each subsequent transaction which affects the 

 sum total of property on the Forest, whether by purchase, transfer, or certificate 

 of loss or sale, will be entered on the Forest Accountability recprd. Transactions 

 which do not affect the sum total of the property on the Forest, such as a trans- 

 fer between a supervisor and a ranger, or a transfer between rangers, will be re- 

 corded in the Individual Accountability record. 



The Order will give full instructions for the preparation of invoices and 

 receipts covering transactions between property clerks, supervisors, and sub- 

 ordinate Forest officers. 



OFFICE OF LANDS. 



Special Uses 



Telephone Permits. The general telephone contracts entered into between the 

 Forest Service and telephone companies do not relieve the companies from the 

 necessity (under Reg. 6 of The Use Book) of taking out special-use permits for 

 all their lines over Natipnal Forest lands. In fact all such general contracts 

 expressly provide that special-use permits shall be secured for the companies' 

 lines crossing National Forest lands. It is very important that all telephone 

 lines in National Forests, and particularly all such lines operated by companies 

 with whom the Service has entered into general contracts, be covered by special- 

 use permits. Supervisors of Forests in which there are any telephone lines not 

 under special-use permits should givo this matter their immediate attention. 



