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The services of preparators, clerks, or copyists. 



Tlie purchase of supplies. 



The Registrar will act on requisitions for blanks and circulars, pack- 

 ing, and shipment. 



The Stationery Clerk will supply articles from the stationery room on 

 indorsement of Chiefs of Departments, a list of whom will be posted in 

 the stationery room. 



The Superintendent of Buildings will act on requisitions for — 



Eepairs. 



Cleaning. 



Services of laborers. 



Regular articles of Museum supply. 



CVIII. 



Issue of Supplies and Assignment of Laborers. — Officers of the Museum 

 requiring supplies or the use of furniture, or other property of the 

 Museum in the custody of the Superintendent, may obtain them by filing 

 a requisition with that official. 



If the article needed is not in stock, or of a kind not ordinarily kept 

 in stock, the requisition must be indorsed by the Director or Assistant 

 Director. 



Requisitions must be countersigned by the chief of the special depart- 

 ment of the Museum from which they emanate. 



The Property Record shall show, under each number, the final dispo- 

 sition of each article. 



The Superintendent shall keep an account with each Chief of Depart- 

 ment, debiting him with property deliv^ered to him, and crediting him 

 with its return. Certificates of exiientlitures may cancel debits in this 

 book. 



Reqtiisitions for labor or other service shall be made in a similar 

 manner, and a book shall be kept in which each Chief of Dei)artment 

 shall be charged with labor assigned to him. 



CIX. 



Preservation of Supplies — Inspection. — The Superintendent shall have 

 charge of and be responsible for the buildings and jjropertj'^ not other- 

 wise assigned. . 



He shall make a monthly examination of all furniture and fixtures, 

 water and gas pipes, locks, window-fastenings, roofs and gutters, plugs 

 and stop-cocks, hose, sinks, urinals, washstands and water-closets, and 

 shall attend to the necessary repairs of the same, reporting result of 

 inspection and his action in the premises in writing to the Assistant 

 Director. 



ex. 



Property Record. — The Superintendent shall receive and, when de- 

 sired, receipt for every piece of furniture, implement, or article of sup- 



(519) . 



