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Under the provisions of this regulation, the use of Government tele-— 
phones for personal business is_prohibited except_in case of emergency. 
When such cases arise, field officers should collect from the users the 
amounts involved and transmit them to the telephone companies before the 
items are billed. If, however, an unofficial item is billed by the com- 
pany, it should not be crossed off the bill as heretofore. Instead, the 
amount is to be collected from the user of the telephone and a check or 
money order, drawn to "Disbursing Clerk, U. S. Department of Agriculture," 
to cover that portion of the bill, must accompany the telephone voucher 
when transmitted to Washington for settlement. It should be clearly in- 
dicated on the voucher which items are unofficial. 
It will be permissible when the plan is satisfactory to both the 
field station and the telephone company to arrange for the submission of 
Separate bills, one covering official and the other unofficial messages. 
In such cases, the settlement with the telephone company of charges on 
the unofficial messages may be handled by the field station direct. 
Discrepancies between contract and actual shipping point in. 
(P.. B.-A. Circular No. 165) 
"Tt sometimes happens that material purchased by the department on 
contracts or agreements providing for shipment on Government bill of 
lading from a designated point is in fact shipped from another and more 
distant place, so that the department is at greater expense for the 
transportation than it would have been had the contract stipulation 
been carried out. These discrepancies are or should be apparent from 
entries on the standard Government bill of lading, Form 1058, which 
shows actual shipping point at the top and toward the bottom in the 
"Certificate of issuing officer' the F.0.B. point named in the contract. 
"It is important that this latter information be invariably entered 
by officers who forward Government bill of lading forms to contractors 
for use in the transportation of purchased material. The first oppor-— 
tunity to note discrepancies between actual and contract shipping points 
is that of the consignee as he fills in the consignee's certificate of 
delivery at the bottom of the bill of lading form. If there is such 
discrepancy, and unless it is quite certain that it has occasioned no 
expense to the department, the consignee should immediately notify the 
