30 NATIONAL FOKEST MANUAL TIMBER SALES. 



Forest users, when asked to make payments, will be furnished by 



Forest officers with a form letter of transmittal 



m t e ai. ers " properly filled out to be sent to the depository with 



the payment. A duplicate will be forwarded at once 



to the supervisor. Duplicates will be held in a promise file. When 



the original is received from the fiscal agent and the necessary record 



made, it will be forwarded to the payor, and the duplicate, with proper 



notation, returned to the ranger. 



MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT. 



verbal modiflca- No Forest officer has or will be given authority to 

 modify any agreement verbally. 



Modification will be made to prevent unnecessary hardship to pur- 

 conditions under <\ nasers > subject to the restrictions stated in Regula- 

 which modifications tion S~7. For example, when the purchaser fails to 

 remove the designated amount of timber in the speci- 

 fied time through unavoidable circumstances, the modification of the 

 contract may be considered, if not disadvantageous to the United 

 States, 

 postponement of Postponement of payments, however, will not be 



payments. allowed 



When a bond has been given, the consent of the 

 tie^? nsent f sure " sureties must be secured before any modification of 

 contract is approved. 



The necessary evidence of authority of the person 

 thor!ty. nce f au ~ wno sig 118 on behalf of a corporation shall always be 



obtained. 



In all cases applications to modify contracts under the terms of 

 Regulation S-7, will be submitted by or through the district forester 

 to the district assistant to the solicitor for determination of the legal- 

 ity of such modification before it shall be approved. 



The following form, varied as required by conditions, will be 

 Form for modiflca- use d for the modification of contracts in advertised 



tion of contract. Sales I 



APPLICATION FOR MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT. 



(Case designation.) 



(Forest officer who will approve modification.) 



"(Address.)'" 

 SIR: 



, , of , 



(I or we.) (Name of applicant.) 



State of , purchaser of timber in the above-designated case, 



National Forest, respectfully request that clause of the agreement signed in 



duplicate by , on the day of , 19. ., and approved by the 



(me or us.) 



on the day of , 19 . . , be 



(Title of approving officer.) 

 modified to read as follows: 



