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assistants, and are responsible for the efficiency of the 

 local service. Under instructions from the Forester, 

 supervisors deal with the public in all business con- 

 nected with the sale of timber, the control of grazing, 

 the issuing of permits, and the application of other 

 regulations for the use and occupancy of forest reserves. 

 They keep the records and accounts, and conduct the 

 correspondence and general office business of their 

 reserves, and make reports to the Forester on all mat- 

 ters under their jurisdiction. 



Supervisors have authority to suspend or recommend 

 the discharge of any subordinate employee, and also to 

 recommend such changes in the field force as the good 

 of the service may demand. 



Each supervisor is required to keep at his own ex- 

 pense one or more horses, to be used under saddle or 

 to vehicle, for his transportation in the reserve; and is 

 allowed actual and necessary traveling expenses only 

 when the urgency of the case requires some other 

 means of transportation. 



FOREST ASSISTANTS. 



The position of forest assistant requires technical 

 qualifications of high order, and entails an examination 

 which no man may reasonably expect to pass unless lie 

 has been thoroughly trained in forestry and lumber- 

 ing. Forest assistants may be assigned to any part of 

 the United States, and must be competent to handle 

 technical lines of work, such as the preparation of 

 working plans and planting plans, the investigation of 

 the silvics and uses of commercial trees, the study 

 of wood preservation, and many other investigations 

 requiring a trained forester. 



