8 NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL REGULATIONS. 



to supervisors to make sales for specified amounts, which in no 

 instance shall exceed 2,000,000 feet board measure. All supervisors 

 may, without special authorization, make sales of timber and cord- 

 wood in amounts not exceeding $100 in value in any one sale. The 

 supervisor may authorize subordinate Forest officers to make sales 

 of timber and cordwood in amounts not exceeding $50 in value in 

 any one sale. 



Reg. S-4. The supervisor may, in his discretion, require that a 

 Deposits. deposit be made with the proper United States 



depository before any timber applied for is examined. 

 In every case where a supervisor decides to recommend a sale of 

 timber for which advertisement is required by law, he will notify 

 the applicant to forward to the proper United States depository 

 such part of the purchase price as will be sufficient to cover the 

 cost of advertising; such deposit to be applied to the purchase 

 price in case the sale is made to the depositor; to be refunded 

 in case the sale is made to some one other than the depositor; to be 

 retained in the discretion of the officer approving the sale, if, through 

 fault of the depositor, no sale of the timber is made. 



Reg. S-5. No timber shall be cut under any timber sale contract 



until it has been paid for. Refunds may, in the dis- 



fundl ments and re ~ cretion of the Forester or district forester, be made 



to depositors of such sums deposited by them to 



secure the purchase price of forest products as may be found to be 



in excess of the amounts actually due the United States. Refunds 



or payments may also be made to the rightful claimants of such 



sums as may be found to have been erroneously collected for timber 



or other forest products sold from lands within, but not a part of, a 



National Forest. 



Reg. S-6. In any sale the timber may be paid for in one or more 

 installment pay- payments, as agreed. In sales of $100 or less the par- 

 ments - tial payments must not exceed three. 



Reg. S-7. Modifications of contracts for the sale of timber will not 



be allowed except in those cases where the full per- 



co?t?a d ts. ication f formance of the contract by the purchaser is rendered 



inequitable and unjust bv some act of the United 



States, or except where the modification is sought in respect to the 



unexecuted portion of the contract and such modification would not 



be prejudicial to the interests of the United States. Modifications, 



where proper, within the meaning of this regulation, may be made by 



the officer approving the sale, or by his superior officer. 



Reg. S-8. No timlber will be sold, other than in amounts not 

 exceeding $100 stumpage value, in advance of adver- 



Advance cutting. .. .^ , . A n ' -, 



tisement, except in cases of unusual emergency. 

 All applications for emergency sales of timber will be submitted to 

 the Secretary of Agriculture for approval, with a statement setting 

 forth the reasons for the emergency. When application is made for 

 timber to meet an unusual emergency the Forest officer authorized to 

 make the sale will, when practicable and proper, include in the adver- 

 tisement of such timber a sufficient quantity of other timber in the 

 same locality and of the same class to satisfy such other bids as may 

 be reasonably anticipated. After approval by the Secretary, the 

 Forest officer may, in sales not exceeding the amount which such 

 officer is authorized to approve, permit the cutting and removal of 



