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employed, or by any investigation or other work in which he may be engaged, except 

 as otherwise provided herein. 



6. No member of the Forest Service shall, directly or indirectly, engage in or profit 

 by private business transactions with, or receive gifts from, a National Forest user 

 or others with whom he has official relations, which might influence his official action 

 or tend to expose the Forest Service to criticism. 



7. It is improper for any member of the Forest Service to grant any privilege or per- 

 mit by which he or any member of his family will profit, directly or indirectly . Such 

 permits may be issued only by his official superior. 



8. Whenever in granting a permit or in making any decision or recommendation 

 the good faith of a member of the Forest Service might be questioned, on the ground 

 that the action was influenced by personal friendship, family relationship, or busi- 

 ness interests, the Forest officer may refer the case to his official superior when in 

 his judgment this course is advisable in order to protect himself and the Service. 



9. No member of the Forest Service shall give or use information acquired by 

 means of his o.Ticial position to advance the interests of himself, his family, his 

 business associates, or his personal friends over those of other persons. 



10. No member of the Forest Service shall engage in any speculation, mercantile 

 transaction, or other activity of a character to engross his attention or to divert it 

 from his public duty. 



11. A Forest officer is a representative of the National Government, and as such 

 his acts as a private individual are particularly open to criticism and may reflect 

 on the Service. Consequently he must set and hold to a high standard of personal 

 conduct and integrity that will safeguard the Service against criticism and embar- 

 rassment. 



12. The order of the Secretary prohibiting political activity, published in the 

 Field Program of January, 1911, will be strictly enforced. 



SILVICULTURE 



Correspondence on Insects, Diseases, and Protection from Animals 



All letters dealing with insect infestations on the National Forests, which are pre- 

 pared by supervisors for the Bureau of Entomology, should be forwarded in triplicate 

 to the District Forester, who will retain one carbon and forward the original and the 

 other carbon, with his approval, or such comment as he may care to make, to the 

 Forester for transmittal to the Bureau of Entomology. The Bureau of Entomology, 

 in its turn, will address its reply in triplicate to the Forest supervisor and will for- 

 ward it through the Forester and District Forester, each of whom will retain a carbon 

 copy. When the Bureau of Entomology has a District field agent or an expert in 

 charge of a District field station within a Forest Service district, correspondence 

 between the supervisor and the field representative of the Bureau of Entomology 

 should be carried on through the District Forester, with carbons of important letters 

 for the District Forester, Forester, and the Washington office of the Branch of Forest 

 Insect Investigations in the Bureau of Entomology. 



Correspondence relating to diseases, which is intended for the Office of Investiga- 

 tions in Forest Pathology in the Bureau of Plant Industry, should similarly be 

 transmitted by the supervisor through the District Forester and the Forester, with 



