2 3 o PROPOSED SYSTEM. 



CASE 2 1 . Storekeeper's Issue to Z. 



Suppose an order of supplies to arrive, directing the issue of 

 certain stores. The Commanding Officer sends it to the Ordnance- 

 Storekeeper and from him it goes to the stock clerk. ' The latter 

 makes out one card for every item on the order of supplies, as- 

 follows : 



He fills the title space, except the date ; also the spaces for ab- 

 stract, voucher, class, quantity, name, address, and in " authority " 

 gives the number and date of the order of supplies. 



Inasmuch as all these entries, except those for the class, quantity,, 

 unit and name of the material, are alike for each invoice, if the 

 number of entries on the invoice should justify it, they should be 

 printed in by rubber stamps, the electric pen or cyclostylic stencil,, 

 or by some other permanent process. 



The cards being returned to the Ordnance Storekeeper with the 

 original order, the latter may either submit them to the Com- 

 manding Officer for the " authority " to be punched ; or, prefer- 

 ably, relying on the authority implied in the transfer of the original 

 order, the Ordnance Storekeeper may do this himself. 



If the order should call for more items of one kind than one 

 box will hold, the packer should make out blank cards for each 

 box. Thus, suppose that 100 halters are ordered to be issued, 

 and that it is found advisable to divide them among five boxes, 

 containing other stores besides. Such a case is by no means- 

 improbable, in packing the large, irregularly shaped assortment 

 of the cavalry supply table, when sent over roads where freighting 

 is expensive and room must be economized. 



In such a case, the packer would make out five cards, each one 

 giving the number of halters the box it represented contained. 

 These cards would be punched by whoever inspected the boxes, 

 and the original card, unpunched, would be returned to the stock 

 clerk with the others. He would destroy this card after seeing 

 that the 100 halters ordered issued were fully accounted for on 

 the five punched cards. These last would form the basis of his 

 accounts. 



So, in receiving or issuing large quantities of miscellaneous 



