UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 FOREST SERVICE. 



AMENDMENT NO. 28 TO THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL, 1911 

 TIMBER SALES. (REGULATIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRI- 

 CULTURE AND INSTRUCTIONS TO FOREST OFFICERS RELATING 

 TO AND GOVERNING TIMBER SALES UPON NATIONAL FOREST 

 LANDS.) 



Effective on and after November 15, 1913. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE 



SECRETARY. 



Regulation S-8, page 8 of the National Forest Manual, 1911, 

 Timber Sales, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture to take effect 

 December 1. 1911, is hereby amended to read as follows: 



Timber will not be sold in amounts exceeding $100 stumpage value, 

 in advance of advertisement, except in cases of unusual emergency, or 

 to homestead settlers and farmers under the terms of Kegulation S-9. 

 Applications for emergency sales of not more than 5,000,000 board feet 

 of timber will be submitted to the district forester for approval, with 

 a statement of the circumstances creating the emergency. Applica- 

 tions for more than 5.000.000 board feet will be submitted to the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture for approval. 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 ad- 

 vertisement 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 

 reasonably be anticipated. After approval of the application the 

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

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

 timber in advance of the award when the applicant has made a de- 

 posit covering the value of the timber to be cut and removed and 

 has agreed to pay for all timber actually cut under the privilege of 

 advance cutting at the rate of the highest price bid for the whole 

 amount of timber advertised, or, if no bids are received, at the rate 

 named in the advertisement. When necessary to protect the Govern- 

 ment against loss a bond will be required. 



An unusual emergency will be deemed to exist if the applicant is 

 so urgently in need of timber that it will result in a serious delay 

 and hardship should cutting operations not be permitted in advance 

 of the completion of the sale advertisement, or if cutting operations 

 in advance of advertisement are necessary to insure the logging of 

 enough timber to meet the actual needs of the applicant before 

 weather or similar conditions may be expected to interfere with such 

 operations. 



Done at Washington this 31st day of October, 1913. 



Witness my hand and the seal of the Department of Agriculture. 



[SEAL.] B. T. GALLOWAY, 



Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 



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