.66 PRESENT SYSTEM. 



After the material has been inspected, the following is the 

 course required to get it out of store: The foreman, having 

 ^ascertained by repeated inquiry that the stores have come, and 

 still desiring them, writes them again on the store book (ll), 

 and after being again approved by the Commanding Officer (12) 

 the book goes to the storekeeper, who takes the material and the 

 book, when he can get it, to the foreman, whose receipt (13) ends 

 his share of the business. 



The initialed bill then goes to the Ordnance Storekeeper, who 

 receipts for the stores on the duplicate stub (14). The assistant 

 storekeeper also keeps a record, of a more or less perfect 

 kind, of all receipts into (15) and issues from (16) his store- 

 house. 



So much for the transaction as it regards the internal economy 

 of the arsenal. The external requirements are met as follows : 

 From the stubs receipted by the Ordnance Storekeeper and the 

 bills received from the dealer, is made out a Certificate of Inspec- 

 tion (17), signed by the assistant inspector (i8),then by the 

 Commanding Officer as principal inspector (19); then the 

 material is receipted for again by the Ordnance Storekeeper (20) ; 

 then approved by the Commanding Officer and forwarded to the 

 Chief of Ordnance for payment to be authorized (21) ; then re- 

 turned by the Chief of Ordnance for payment (22). Vouchers 

 in duplicate (23, 24) are then made out, approved by the 

 Commanding Officer (25, 26), and the creditor's receipt affixed 

 to each (27, 28) after payment. 



The purchase is then entered in duplicate on the Monthly ab- 

 stract of purchases, a cash paper (29, 30) ; and again in dupli- 

 cate on the Quarterly abstract of purchases, a property paper 

 (31, 32). This imposes a responsibility on the Ordnance Store- 

 keeper, so he hastens to credit himself with the expenditure of 

 the same items on the abstract of Expenditures, also in duplicate 



(33. 34). 



Here, at last, the identity of the purchase disappears, being 

 merged in that of other purchases of the same material, which 

 .are consolidated, as before described, through both sets of 



