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folder to the closed files. The supervisor will retain the original and 

 will transfer the folder and the card (Form 615) to his closed cases. 



CLASS B: SUPERVISOR'S SALES NOT EXCEEDING $100 IN VALUE. 



Application may be made through any Forest officer, but the super- 

 procedure visor must approve the contract. If the latter 



decides that a sale should be made, after an examina- 

 tion in accordance with the instructions on page 36, the applicant 

 should forward to the United States depository the payment required, 

 and receive from the supervisor an approved copy of his contract. 

 Procedure in other respects follows that outlined under class A sales. 

 Where no living timber is involved, maps or Forest descriptions 

 need not be prepared unless they are required by the 

 description! 1 Forest supervisor or are necessary in the judgment of the 



Forest officer making the examination. 



Since the law definitely limits the amount of timber which can be 

 sold in an individual sale without advertisement to a 



$i?o ay not l vame of not more tnan $ 100 > g reat ? are will be taken, 

 in making class B sales, that the value does not exceed 

 $100. It is safer to make the sale a little under the $100 limit to allow 

 for possible excess cutting. If the value of the timber cut exceeds 

 $100 it will be necessary to make a new sale of the amount cut in 

 excess, but where the amount of a sale together with a small overcut 

 does not exceed $100 the overcut should be accounted for as an excess 

 cutting on the original contract. 



Repeated sales of unadvertised timber to the same 

 Repeated sales. purchaser, in order to avoid advertising, are not per- 

 mitted. 



CLASS C: SUPERVISOR'S ADVERTISED SALES. 



The amount of timber which can be advertised is limited to the 



A iication amount named in the supervisor's letter of authority, 



whether the timber is advertised under a general notice 



or in response to an application. This authority is given only to the 



person named in the letter, and is not incident to the office. 



Upon receipt of an informal application to purchase timber the 

 Forest supervisor will determine, in accordance with the procedure 

 outlined under "Examination of timber applied for," on page 36, 

 whether the sale can be made. 



The formal application will be prepared in quadruplicate. Two 

 copies will be transmitted to the applicant, the original of which 

 should be executed and returned to the supervisor. A copy will be 

 forwarded to the ranger. 



Upon receipt of the formal application or upon receipt of the 

 report in general notice sales, the case will be recorded on a salmon- 

 colored timber-sale record card (Form 615) which will be filed under 

 timber sales alphabetically. 



The notice of sale will be prepared in triplicate by the supervisor 

 as soon as the application is approved and the adver- 

 tising deposit of $50 has been made. The^signed 

 original will be sent to the publisher; the first carbon, on which the 

 name of the newspaper is entered, will be sent to the district forester, 

 and the second carbon filed. 



