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All saw timber will be scaled by Scribner Decimal C log rule, as used by the 

 Forest Service. (Issued October 31, 1911, to take effect December 1, 1911.) 



Time limits. 



REGULATION S-13. The period allowed for the removal of timber, which in 

 no instance shall exceed five years, except in special cases, upon specific ap- 

 proval by the Secretary, will be fixed in the agreement; and in sales in which 

 a period of two or more years is allowed for the removal of the timber, the 

 minimum amount to be removed each year must be specified, except in un- 

 usual cases. The Secretary may, in his discretion, when circumstances warrant, 

 extend the time beyond a period of five years, but such extension will be 

 granted only to prevent hardship in cases where the failure to remove the 

 timber within the five-year period is due to circumstances over which the pur- 

 chaser had no control. (Issued October 31, 1911, to take effect December 

 1, 1911.) 



Bonds. 



REGULATION S-14. The officer approving any timber-sale contract may 

 require the purchaser to furnish a bond for the satisfactory completion of the 

 contract. In all sales exceeding 10,000,000 feet and in smaller sales, when 

 necessary in the judgment of the approving officer, the successful bidder will 

 be required to submit, before the timber is awarded to him, a statement satis- 

 factory to the approving officer of financial ability to conduct the operation and 

 fulfill all of the obligations to be assumed under the sale contract. Such a 

 statement may be required, in the discretion of the approving officer, before 

 the approval of a sale application or before any steps are taken to examine 

 areas tentatively applied for. (Issued October 31. 1911, to take effect Decem- 

 ber 1, 1911 ; as amended July 16, 1912.) 



Appeals. 



REGULATION S-15. The disapproval of an application for the purchase of 

 timber or for the modification of an existing contract by the officer authorized 

 to approve such application shall be considered final, unless written notice 

 of appeal to the next superior officer, district forester, Forester, or the Sec- 

 retary, as the case may be, is filed with the officer disapproving such applica- 

 tion within 30 days from the receipt of his decision. All appeals arising from 

 the enforcement or execution of the provisions of a timber-sale contract shall 

 be made in the first instance to the Forest supervisor. His decision thereon 

 shall be considered final unless written notice of appeal to the district forester 

 is filed with the supervisor within 15 days from the receipt of his decision. 

 Appeals from the decisions of the district forester to the Forester or from the 

 decisions of the Forester to the Secretary may be made by filing written 

 notice with the officer from whose decision appeal is taken within 15 days from 

 the receipt of such decision. (Issued October 31, 1911, to take effect Decem- 

 ber 1, 1911.) 



Use of steam engines or locomotives. 



REGULATION S-16. The use of steam engines or locomotives in operation 

 on National Forest lands under any timber-sale contract or under any permit 

 is prohibited, unless they are equipped with such spark-arresters as shall be 

 approved by the Forest supervisor, or unless oil is used exclusively for fuel. 

 (Issued October 31, 1911, to take effect December 1, 1911.) 



TURPENTINE SALES. 



REGULATION S-16a. So far as applicable the regulations governing timber 

 sales will apply in turpentine sales except as follows: District foresters are 

 authorized to make sales in amounts not exceeding 200,000 cups, and to delegate 

 this authority to supervisors for specific amounts not exceeding 40,000 cups. 

 Cupping in advance of advertisement will not be allowed. (Issued December 

 3,1912.) 



ADMINISTRATIVE USE OF TIMBER. 



REGULATION S-17. The Forester and the district foresters within the amount 

 which they are authorized to sell may remove and sell, or dispose of, under free- 

 use permit or otherwise, as shall be most advantageous to the United States, 

 any timber upon the National Forests when such removal is actually necessary 



