Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1918 — UNITED STATES FUEL ADMINISTRATION FOR INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

UNITED STATES FUEL ADMINISTRATION FOR INDIANA.

To County Fuel Administrators: 1. On and after April 1, 1918, the jobber’s compensation, if any, must come out of the government price at the mine and may not be added to it. 2. And all anthracite coal bought between April 1 and September 1 there will be a reduction of thirty cents a ton in the F. O. B. government mine price. 3. Every'consumer should be urged to place at once with his regular dealer an order for his reasonable requirements for the year ending March 21, 1918. Coal will not be supplied through this office after March 18, 1918. 4. Until further notice no domestic consumer of coal or coke may purchase, receive, or otherwise take possession of, more ooal or coke than is required for his actual and necessary requirements prior to March 31, 1919. if such consumer already has a quantity on hand he may receive only such additional amount as will make up his actual and necessary requirements proper to that date. 5. No person, firm, association or corporation, whether acting alone or in conjuncture with others, may directly or indirectly, provide any domestic consumer of coal or coke with more coal or coke before March 31, 1919, than necessary, with the amount already on hand, to meet the actual and necessary requirements of such consumer prior to that date.

6/ On and after April 1, 1918 and until further notice no retail dealer may, unless authorized by the federal fuel administrator for Indiana, deliver or cause to be delivered to any domestic consumer more than two-thirds of his normal annual requirements of anthracite coal until each domestic consumer who has placed his order with said dealer and is willing to receive delivery of the same has received two-thirds of his normal annual requirements for the year ending March 31, 1919; provided, however, that orders of six tons or less may be filled in full. 7. Car load or barge load lots' may not be delivered to a single domestic consumer or to a groupe of consumers except with the permission of the county fuel administrator.

8. Dealers shall file with the county fuel administrator on the first of each month, a statement containing the. names and addresses of consumers to whom deliveries have been made firing the previous month and the quantity delivered to each. 9. An inspection system to enforce the mining of clean coal is being established by the United States Administration. Under the regulations, the district representative, Mr. Charles G. Hall, Terre Haute, will have charge of the system in Indiana. 10. It is desired that on and after April 1, 1918, there be in effect no orders establishing conservation restrictions, except those issued from Washington through this office. EVANS WOOLLEN, Federal Fuel Administrator for Ind.