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administrative regulations of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture in the transportation of arrested persons to custody, 
or for necessary subsistence of such persons at hotels, etc., 
or for necessary expenses in the execution of any other 
necessary legal process for which no other authorities can 
properly assume responsibility, in the prosecution of viola¬ 
tors of the laws, or of the regulations of the Department 
of Agriculture, in national forests. As has previously 
been pointed out, however, expense, as well as the time 
of forest officers for other needed duties, can often be saved 
to the Forest Service by making use of sheriffs and con¬ 
stables for the serving of warrants, subpoenas, and other 
such assistance. In particular, the hiring of men for posse 
needs, or to accompany officers for identification of wit¬ 
nesses, in State cases can appropriately be assumed by 
the counties, and its expense should by the above means 
be transferred to them when it is feasible to do so. If it 
is necessary for a forest officer to bring in a witness, the 
latter should pay his own expenses if possible. Either 
the forest officer or the witness can in such duly authorized 
cases be reimbursed by the court under the conditions 
imposed by law; but no reimbursement for expenses in 
connection with witnesses can be made by the Forest 
Service. Certain other expenses in connection with the 
trial itself can sometimes be assumed by the sheriff or the 
United States marshal, as the case may be, or by other 
agencies of the administration of justice. It is impossible 
to make general instructions which will fit every con¬ 
tingency. In case of any doubt, specific advice should, 
whenever possible, be sought before incurring the contem¬ 
plated expense. 
PREPARATION OF THE CASE. 
PREPARING THE MATERIAL. 
When all possible or necessary evidence in a case has 
been run down and the necessary witnesses provided for, 
with a definite understanding of just what each will 
testify to, all these facts in the case must be put into 
systematic and workable shape. 
