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 SERVICE NOTES FOR JULY. 



These notes contain Instructions and necessary information to forest 

 officers, and will therefore be carefully read and kept on file for 

 reference. 



SERVICE ORDER 43. 



DISTRICT 7. 



JUNE 27, 1914. 



There is hereby established in the Forest Service, effective on and 

 after July 1, 1914, an additional administrative district to be known 

 as District 7, with headquarters at the Forest Service, Washington, 

 D. C. This district will include the Luquillo, Arkansas, Ozark, Wichita, 

 and Florida National Forests, the present Weeks Law Purchase Areas 

 and such additional Purchase Areas as may be designated in the east- 

 ern states. The new district will be in charge of Assistant Forester 

 Wm. L. Hall, who will perform the duties which in the other districts 

 devolve upon the district forester. The various branches of the Forest 

 Service will exercise the same administrative functions over this dis- 

 trict as they do over the other six. 



H. S. GRAVES, Forester. 



ACCOUNTS. 



Alterations Made in Accounts During Administrative Examination. 



The following memorandum and copies of letters have been received 

 from the Chief Clerk of the Department of Agriculture: 



DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE, 



OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK, 

 Washington, D. C., July 6, 191%, 

 To chiefs of bureaus, divisions, and offices: 



I am directed by the advisory committee on finance and business 

 methods to transmit for your information and guidance the attached 

 copy of a letter dated June 23, 1914, from the Auditor for the State 

 and Other Departments with reference to alterations made during 

 the administrative examination affecting accounts submitted by claim- 

 ants, and copy of an extract from a letter of the Comptroller of the 

 Treasury to the Secretary of Agriculture under date May 28, 1914, 

 on the same subject. 



As suggested by the auditor, steps should be taken to avoid any 

 administrative cancellation, erasure, or change of a claimant's bill 

 as rendered. 



R. M. REESE, Chief Clerk. 



