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is possible that more writing will be required (of the clerks only), 

 this will be so distributed from day to day, and will be based on 

 such plain and consistent data, that the total amount of labor 

 performed will be much less than it is now, and its results be 

 much more satisfactory. 



Combining these advantages with those following the appoint- 

 ment of an Executive Officer, it seems reasonable to deduce the 

 following propositions : 



1. That the Executive Officer and the Ordnance Storekeeper 

 shall be co-ordinate subordinates to the Commanding Officer, 

 each acting independently in his own sphere in behalf of the 

 Commanding Officer. 



NOTE. In the Executive Department there may be several officers, assistants to 

 the Commanding Officer, each of whom in his own sphere represents the Executive 

 Officer. 



2. That the responsibility of each officer shall be confined to 

 the property which, under the Commanding Officer, he himself 

 controls or which actually passes through his hands. 



3. That the Storekeeper shall be responsible for only the public 

 property in store ; and that the Executive Officer shall be re- 

 sponsible for only the public property of all kinds in current 

 service. 



4. That the Executive Officer shall account for the property in 

 his charge on the Current Service Return ; and the Storekeeper 

 for that in his charge on the Store Return. 



5. That the foremen shall be considered the agents of the 

 Executive Officer, and the assistant storekeepers the agents of the 

 Ordnance Storekeeper ; and that the returns of these officers shall 

 be compiled from the records of their agents' lawful actions. 



6. That unless specially required, no account shall be had of 

 property transactions between agents of the same principal ; but 

 that transfers between agents of different principals shall be always 

 recorded. 



7. That the Executive Officer shall, under the Commanding 

 Officer, have sole power to expend materials, and to make and 

 originally account for the fabrications resulting from such ex- 

 penditures. 



