CHAPTER I. 



LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 



The following extracts comprise all the essential regulations bearing upon the 

 accountability for public property at the Arsenals : 



I. REVISED STATUTES. 



" The Chief of Ordnance shall, half-yearly, or oftener, if so 

 directed, make a report to the Secretary of War of all the officers 

 and enlisted men in his department of the service, and of all 

 ordnance and ordnance stores under his control. Every officer 

 of the Ordnance Department, every ordnance storekeeper, every 

 post ordnance sergeant, each keeper of magazines, arsenals and 

 armories, every assistant and deputy of such, and all other 

 officers, agents, or persons who shall have received or may be 

 intrusted with any stores or supplies, shall quarterly, or oftener, 

 if so directed, and in such manner and on such forms as may be 

 directed or prescribed by the Chief of Ordnance, make true and 

 correct returns to the Chief of Ordnance of all ordnance, arms, 

 ordnance stores, and all other supplies and property of every 

 kind, received by or intrusted to them and each of them, or 

 which may in any manner come into their and each of their 

 possession or charge. The Chief of Ordnance, subject to the 

 approval of the Secretary of War, is hereby authorized and 

 directed to draw up and enforce in his department a system of 

 rules and regulations for the government of the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment, and of all persons in said Department, and for the safe 

 keeping and preservation of all ordnance property of all kinds, 

 and to direct and prescribe the time, number, and forms of all 

 returns and reports, and to enforce compliance therewith." Sec- 

 tion 1167, Revised Statutes of the United States. 



