2io PROPOSED SYSTEM. 



CASE 13. Dropping Material. 



The Commanding Officer of an arsenal is authorized to drop 

 by his own act, subject to the approval of the Chief of Ordnance, 

 such worn-out and unserviceable material as he does not wish to 

 keep on his return of stores in current service. See abstract 4, 

 page 45- 



If the stores are absolutely without value, the accompanying 

 case will serve; otherwise the form for transfers, case 14, should 

 be used. 



Such transactions may thus be made definitely as positive and 

 distinct acts of the Commanding Officer's agents, the property 

 dropped being actually in view at the time. It seems unneces- 

 sary to dwell on the difference between such a course and the 

 common one of having the dropping done by memory alone, or 

 in the judgment of a clerk who wishes to clear off his return. 



The Commanding Officer may thus have the practical exami- 

 nation of the stores made by his agents, and merely ratify their 

 acts in detail by his punch-mark. Cards so punched have only 

 to be sorted into classes and copied to form abstract 4. 



In the case shown, the couplings should in reality be taken up 

 by transfer as scrap brass and credited to 215 at their scrap value. 



