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require payment for all timber cut or destroyed on forest 

 reserve land occupied in direct connection with the enjoy- 

 ment of the privilege. 



Such transactions are designated as timber settlements, and the 

 forest officer, when reporting upon the special privilege, must sub- 

 mit a separate report on Form 578 to cover the timber to be cut or , 

 destroyed. 



REG. 28. Forest supervisors are authorized to make 

 timber settlements in all special-privilege cases granted 

 by them. 



There is no separate form of application or agreement for timber 

 settlements. The special-privilege agreement. (Form 832) must 

 contain stipulations governing payments for the timber, disposal 

 of refuse, etc. 



The timber-sale regulations and instructions, which govern scal- 

 ing, submission of cutting reports, disposal of refuse, and payments, 

 will apply to timber-settlement cases, and forest officers must know 

 and enforce the conditions of each timber settlement. 



ADMINISTRATIVE USE. 



REG. 29. The Forester may, with as little expense to 

 the Government as possible, dispose of any diseased, 

 insect-infested, or fire-killed timber upon forest reserves, 

 by sale or otherwise, when such disposition is actually 

 necessary to protect the forests thereon from further 

 ravages or destruction. 



This method will be adopted only when the regular timber sale 

 and free-use regulations will not avail to remove an actual menace 

 from the reserve, either because of delay for advertising or other 

 reasons. 



When a supervisor discovers that the existence of such timber 

 is endangering the forest reserve, he should report to the Forester 

 at once and suggest the readiest and most economical means of 

 removing the danger. This may involve actual lumbering opera- 



