34 NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL - TIMBER SALES. 



may proceed with the cutting and removal of the timber without piling the brush until 



such time, not later than .......... , as said Forest officers shall decide that the brush 



can be properly piled, and have agreed if said application is allowed that they will, as 

 soon as the snow is gone, at the request of the Forest officer in charge, put on a sufficient 

 force of men to dispose of all brush caused by the operations subsequent to the granting 

 of said application, and also other brush of which disposal has not been made at the 

 date of said application, in a manner satisfactory to the Forest officer in charge, and to 

 use every precaution against fire being started in the brush and debris not piled on 

 account of the granting of said application, and to pay for any damage that may be 

 caused by the granting of said modification of the contract. 



In unadvertised sales modifications will be granted only in writing, 



by letter, or by approval of an application in accord- 



ctons val f m dl " ance with the f oregoing forms if their use is deemed 



advisable. In advertised sales modifications will be 



granted only by approval of a formal application. 



Modifications will be approved by the officer having authority to 

 make the class of sale the contract for which is to be modified, after 

 the district assistant to the solicitor has advised that such modifica- 

 tion is lawful. The application and consent of sureties should be 

 approved on the same day. 



In unadvertised sales modifications will be prepared with two 

 Record carbons, the original forwarded to the purchaser and 



the carbons filed with the supervisor and ranger. In 

 advertised sales modifications will be prepared in quadruplicate and 

 executed and approved in duplicate. A fifth copy will be prepared 

 for the Forester's files in sales where the modification is approved 

 by him. The original will be re tamed in the district forester's files in 

 class D sales and in the supervisor's files in class C sales. The dupli- 

 cate is for the purchaser, the third copy for the supervisor or district 

 forester, as the case may be, and the fourth for the officer hi charge of 

 the sale. Dates and signatures should be filled in on all retained 

 copies. 



Consent of sureties will be prepared hi duplicate but only the origi- 

 nal executed. The original will be filed with the original of the appli- 

 cation. The duplicate will be filed in the supervisor's office in class 

 D sales and the district forester's office in class C sales. 



CANCELLATION OF CONTRACTS. 



If the cancellation is by mutual agreement, an application executed 

 by the purchaser and approved by the Forest officer approving the 

 sale will be required except in unadvertised sales in which notification 

 signed by the approving officer is sufficient. 



Form for adver- The following form with necessary modifications 

 tised sales. ^j j^ use d m advertised sales: 



(Case designation.) 



(Title of approving officer.) 



(Address.) 

 SIR: 



............ , ........................................ , of .............. , 



(I or we.) (City.) 



............. , purchaser. . of the timber in the above designated case by a contract 



(State.) 



signed in duplicate by ............ on the ____ day of .......... , 19 . . , and approved 



(Me or us.) 



