CHAPTER VIII. 



PROPOSED ORGANIZATION OF AN ARSENAL. 



Subalterns: Responsible for Accounted for Assisted by- 



on 



I. Paymaster Values Cash papers ... Pay Clerk. 



2. Storekeeper Units of property.. Store return. .. Stock Clerk. 



(" Stock Clerk as to 



3. Executive Officer.. Units of property Current service 1 unit-,. 



and values. return. | Cost Clerk as to 



\. values. 



I would divide the Arsenal into three general departments, each 

 independent of the other, but all directly dependent upon 

 the Commanding Officer. Several functions might be united in 

 the same person, and in the smaller arsenals the Commanding 

 Officer might perform them all, as he does now in strictly mili- 

 tary matters. 



His assistants would be : 



1 . The Paymaster ; responsible for values only, for which he 

 accounts on his cash papers, with which this discussion is not yet 

 concerned. 



2. The Ordnance Storekeeper; responsible for units of prop- 

 erty, for which he accounts on the arsenal Store return and its 

 accompanying papers, prepared by the Stock Clerk. 



3. The Executive Officer; responsible for both units and 

 values, accounting for the former by the Current service return, 

 and for the latter by properly balanced statements of the cost 

 of articles fabricated or otherwise transformed. The former ac- 

 countability is cared for by the Stock Clerk, and the latter by the 

 Cost Clerk. 



By sharing the services of the stock clerk between these two 

 officers in preparing papers which have so much in common, 

 much work can be saved, and the result of what work is done be 

 made more accurate. 



