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pounded to the Service by the park superintendents and field 

 men. It prepares leases and contracts in connection with the 

 working of the concessionaire system in the parks and passes 

 upon similar documents submitted to the department. All 

 of the title work in connection with lands presented to or pur- 

 chased by the Government for park uses is likewise done by the 

 Law Section. Besides the work mentioned above there are 

 contracts for the construction of buildings and bridges to be 

 drawn and let, all legal correspondence of a general nature to 

 be handled, and advice to be given concessionaires as to what 

 they can legally do in varying situations and states of fact. In 

 addition this section keeps informed regarding all legislation 

 affecting the parks and advises the Director in regard thereto. 



Publications Section. As soon as a Service publication 

 has been prepared for the printer the responsibility of 

 the Editorial Section in connection with it ceases, and it passes 

 into the jurisdiction of the Publications Section. This sec- 

 tion has full charge of the distribution of the Service publica- 

 tions, answering all inquiries in regard thereto, keeping the 

 mailing lists of the Service up to date, and, in general, per- 

 forming all work pertaining to the Service's publications 

 not of a preparatory or editorial nature. 



Individual Park Organization — the Yellowstone. No 

 standardized system of internal organization for the individual 

 parks has ais yetbeen adopted. In general features, however, 

 park organization is similar to the general service organization. 

 This is especially true of the larger ((arks, the most important 

 of which, the Yellowstone, is organized under a superintend- 

 ent and an assistant superintendent into ten sections which 

 may be described as the sections of Administration, Informa- 

 tion, Protection, Transportation, Light and Power, Communi- 

 cation, Sanitation, Painting, Machinery, and Engineering. 

 T^his '.^cha^cterization is necessarily rough and does not in 

 every case fully describe the work of the unit. 



