CHAPTER III. 



PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF AN ARSENAL. 



Schedule showing the relations of the principal officers and em- 

 ployees of an arsenal as at present organized. 



Workman, 

 etc. 



1 2. Stock Clerk. 



We have first the Commanding Officer, who represents the 

 proprietor and stands for the arsenal in its relations with the out- 

 side world. 



His only subordinate distinctively recognized by the regula- 

 tions as charged with separate responsibilities, is the Ordnance 

 Storekeeper. He is supposed to have charge of all material not 

 in use ; to receive all material, whether received from external or 

 internal sources, and to issue it only on the written order of the 

 Commanding Officer. He is also generally the paymaster, dis- 

 bursing on similar written orders, but the two functions are not 

 necessarily combined in the same individual. 



So important are deemed his duties as custodian, that the 

 storekeeper is required to give bonds, except when tempo- 

 rarily chosen from the active list of ordnance officers by the 

 Chief of Ordnance. 



The table illustrates the anomaly of his position, for while 

 subordinate to the Commanding Officer, he is not appointed by 

 him and is only discharged from his responsibilities by the ap- 

 proval of their common superior, the Chief of Ordnance. As 



