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jail for violation of the rules and regulations relating to the forest 

 reserves under a commitment issued by a United States Commis- 

 sioner. Such payments are chargeable to the judiciary appropriation. 

 (14 Comp. Dec, 113.) 



A forest officer keeping a privately owned automobile for official 

 business can not receive compensation for carrying another forest 

 officer in the car, both being on an official trip. (2 Sol. Op., 782.) 



General expenses. 



The appropriation for the general expenses of the Forest Service 

 can not be used to pay an impounding fee under a village ordinance 

 for horses of the Government taken up and impounded by the village 

 authorities. (1 Sol. Op., 642.) 



The expense of transporting horses of employees of the Forest 

 Service, needed in the performance of their official duties, is payable 

 from the appropriation for general expenses. (1 Sol. Op., 350.) 



The expenses of identification and eradication of poisonous plants 

 within the National Forests may be paid from general expenses un- 

 der the appropriation for 1910. (1 Sol. Op., 199.) 



The fire-fighting fund provided under general expenses in the act 

 of March 4, 1911, is available for paying the cost of repairs to a 

 vehicle unavoidably damaged while under hire to the Forest Service 

 for conveying men to a forest fire, with the express agreement to be 

 responsible for damages. (2 Sol. Op., 740.) 



Salaries of stream gaugers working under cooperative agreement 

 with the Geological Survey are payable from the appropriation for 

 general expenses of the Forest Service. (2 Sol. Op., 719.) 



Telephone lines consisting of insulated wire laid upon the ground 

 and temporarily used in one part of the forest and then removed and 

 used in the same way in another part should be charged, under gen- 

 eral expenses, for the "purchase and maintenance of all necessary 

 field * * * supplies," etc. (1 Sol. Op., 651.) 



Labor employed in constructing such lines should be paid for from 

 the appropriation for general expenses, as a field expense of the par- 

 ticular forest. (1 Sol. Op., 651.) 



Expenses of a forest officer while attending, in his official capacity, 

 the examination or trial of a person charged with violation of the 

 laws relating to timber trespass on National Forests are payable from 

 the general expenses for the Forest Service. (1 Sol. Ap., 383.) 



The appropriation for the construction and maintenance of roads, 

 trails, bridges, etc., in the appropriation act of August 10, 1912, is not 

 exclusive, but is interchangeable with the item for general expenses 

 "to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, and improve 

 the National Forests." (Solicitor to his assistant at San Francisco, 

 Sept. 7, 1912.) 



Improvements. 



Enlargement and improvement of ranger stations. See under " Operation," 



page 30, ante. 



The installation for the first time of bathroom fixtures in the Fort 

 Valley experiment station, in the same manner as similar fixtures are 

 usually installed in the ordinary- city house, are not repairs within the 

 meaning of the appropriation act. (2 Sol. Op., 768.) 



