CHAPTER XI. 



PROPOSED SYSTEM. 

 B. INTERNAL RELA TIONS. 



i. METHOD OF GIVING ORDERS AND RECORDING THEM. 



In the office is kept the Shop-Order Book (see page 150), 

 in which all orders for work are entered and given successive 

 numbers by which they are to be known. As these numbers are 

 only symbols, they may run on indefinitely from one year to 

 another, so that the same job may always be known by the same 

 number. The signature of the Commanding Officer completes 

 the act, which then receives the acknowledgment of the Officer in 

 Charge of the shops and of his lieutenant, the Master Workman. 

 The appropriation from which the work is to be paid should 

 always be designated. 



Standing Orders. 



All jobs may be so entered ; but as there are many small ones 

 regarding only the maintenance of the arsenal, like the glazing 

 of a window, repairs of machines, and routine work which cannot 

 be deferred until special authority for every case is given, the 

 following course is pursued : 



A " standing order " is given for eacn of as many sources of 

 general expense as it is desirable to know the cost of. 



These may be analyzed more or less closely at pleasure ; a dis- 

 tinction should, however, always be made between the mainte- 

 nance of the military part of the post and of the civil establish- 

 ment. 



The cost of keeping up the public grounds ; of heating, lighting 

 and supplying with water both the shops and arsenal ; of trans- 

 portation and of motive power, are also useful secondary headings. 



