326 APPENDIX. 



body's way until it is finally disposed of. At the office it may 

 be approved or sent back for explanation, or simply suspended, 

 without interfering with immediate action on other articles 

 asked for at the same time. A long list is like a large bank- 

 note, easy to carry, but hard to change. 



Suppose that the requisition is approved by the superintend- 

 ent's also punching " required by," the card is sorted with other 

 cards of the same kind, say for hardware, the name of the dealer 

 from whom the material is to be ordered attached, or not, at 

 pleasure, and the card sent with others to the foreman or store- 

 keeper who is to receive it on arrival. If to the foreman, he 

 knows what to expect. 



When the steel has come, the quantity actually received is 

 filled in, the receiver punches " certified by " or " received by," 

 or whatever special form of acknowledgment may be required 

 by the management, and sends the card to the bill clerk, who, 

 after comparing it with the bill, and, maybe, adding prices or 

 amount, sends it to the cost clerk for filing in the proper pigeon- 

 hole. 



Let us suppose again that the foreman, having no immediate 

 use for the steel, has charged his departmental standing order 

 with it. By and by he finds that he wants ten pounds of it for 

 a special job. He makes out another card, charging it to the 

 special job and crediting himself accordingly on the same card, 

 and punches " certified by " as before. The converse is possible 

 if he finds that he has charged too much to the special order 

 first mentioned. 



If he lets another foreman have steel, he charges and credits 

 appropriately between departmental orders, certifies the entry, 

 and gets the other foreman to do so before he gives up the 

 steel. The issuer keeps the punched card as his equivalent, and 

 sends it to the office for entry. 



The card may also be used for reporting each batch of work 

 packed or shipped or sent to the storeroom or warehouse, as 

 the custom of the place may require. Such cards contain a 

 credit to the order under which the material has been made. 

 They take the place of all memoranda recopied into lists for 

 office use. Each card may start independently of the rest at the: 



