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and, in general, to follow as liberal a policy in the matter 

 of free use as the interests of the reserves and the proper 

 performance of their other work will allow. 



The free use business of forest reserves will be conducted mainly 

 by the rangers. Subject only to general restrictions, instructions, 

 and supervision, they will decide the rights of applicants to the 

 privilege, assign and direct the removal of material, and be re- 

 sponsible for results. 



REG. 13. No free use material may be taken without a 

 permit. Application for a permit may be made verbally 

 or in writing to any officer authorized to grant it. If it 

 receives his approval he will see that the applicant un- 

 derstands the regulations governing the privilege and 

 will fix the amount, kind, and location of the material 

 and the terms under which it must be taken. The priv- 

 ilege of free use must never be granted verbally. 



Both the forest officer and the applicant will sign an agreement 

 to these conditions upon the prescribed form, which will be for- 

 warded at once to the supervisor as a part of the records of his 

 office. The permit will be filled out, signed, and delivered to 

 the applicant by the forest officer, who will also record it upon 

 the stub in his notebook. These duplicates will be used by the 

 supervisor in preparing his annual statement of free use business, 

 to be submitted immediately after the close of the calendar year. 

 No map, estimate sheet, forest description, or report need be made 

 unless desired by the ranger or supervisor for his own use. The 

 agreement forwarded to the supervisor should contain sufficient 

 information to enable the latter to record the case properly. Any 

 additional facts may be stated in a letter. 



The forest officer issuing the permit, unless he should be the 

 supervisor, who may instruct a ranger to do so, should designate 

 the timber to be cut, by the most practicable means, not necessa- 

 rily uniform in every case. Living timber must be marked. Dead 

 timber may be marked or, if practicable, an area may be blazed 

 or denned by natural boundaries, and the class of trees to be taken 



