178 PROPOSED SYSTEM. 



12. Whoever first punches the face of a card, should date it. 

 The abstract, voucher and class spaces are to be filled in by 



the stock clerk. 



The amount space is to be filled in by the cost clerk, when 

 required. 



13. The price space should always be filled when the price is 

 known ; when not known, a query ( ?) should so indicate. 



NOTE. When fabrications, the product of a shop-order, the cost of which remains 

 to be determined, are reported, the price space should be crossed out. The cost clerk 

 credits such entries to the order on which made, as hereafter explained. When the 

 job is done, they serve to show what it has accomplished. 



14. The package and address spaces in the stock section need 

 not be filled, except, 1st, when the material is received from some 

 source other than that indicated in the requisition column on the 

 back of the card ; 2d, when the material is issued to Z ; 3d, when, 

 owing to the exigencies of the case, packages containing material 

 have to be opened before the bill or invoice is received. The 

 marks, size and weight of the package being at once recorded, 

 no questions can afterwards arise. 



15. But one entry may be made on each card. 



1 6. Four, but not more than four, consecutive transactions can 

 be represented on the same card. To be so represented they 

 must be in immediate succession in point of time, the receipts and 

 issues alternating. 



What is said of any one of the illustrations following, is equally 

 true of it, whether it represents an independent act, or is one of a 

 successive series, as just described. 



