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When the blacksmith, having completed his task, returns the 

 ticket, the foreman acts as follows, according to the case : 



1. If the job has been finished to his satisfaction, he stamps 

 both tickets with the date when completed, keeps one of them 

 and returns the other to the office after identifying it by punching 

 out his shop number in the " completion " line. He keeps no 

 other record. 



In the office, the date of completion is entered in the proper 

 column of the Order Book. The tickets are then sorted according 

 to the official classification, so as to serve as the basis for making 

 out the monthly " Report of Work done." After this they are 

 sorted in order of numbers, and placed in trays, page 94, with 

 other tickets previously completed, for ready reference when 

 required. 



2. Should the job require further work by another man, say a 

 carpenter, the foreman takes both duplicates and puts them in 

 the carpenter's division of rack No. 2, awaiting the disengagement 

 of the particular labor required ; or else he simply transfers the 

 smith's ticket to a carpenter. He picks out from rack No. 2 other 

 work for the smith, divides the tickets, gives him one and trans- 

 fers the other to the active list of rack No. I. Should he wish to 

 keep both men at work on the same job at once, he gives to one 

 a similar white ticket, bearing the order number and such details 

 as are necessary for his guidance, and substantiates the proceed- 

 ing by punching the authority space. The duplicate of this ticket 

 should be treated as the others were. 



3. Should the foreman have to give an order based on one of 

 the standing orders, he makes out a duplicate white card and 

 treats it as before explained. 



Whenever a duplicate ticket is turned in to him as complete, 

 he sends it to the office, as an indication of the progress made in 

 the work, and also as a check on his management. This permits 

 him to act freely by requiring only a record of his acts. 



In making out order tickets the foreman should be careful to 

 indicate on them, as far as he may, the proper symbols to be used 

 by the workman in reporting his resulting work. The manner of 

 doing this is explained page 97 and Chap. XII, XIII. 



