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ized from sale of bonds, stock or other securities for a specific 

 work should be applied to such work. 



TRACK LAYING REPORTS. (FORM 19.) 



The number of feet of main track laid every day must be 

 telegraphed to the chief engineer and division engineer in the 

 following manner: 



"Gallatin Butte Division, main track laid Jan. 16. 1890, 

 from station 626 to station 640, fourteen hundred feet." 



A daily record of all track laid must be carefully kept on 

 form 19, with every blank properly filled in. This report will 

 be forwarded to division engineer by first train, who, after 

 checking and making record of same, will forward to chief 

 engineer. 



INSTRUMENT REPORTS. (FORM 11.) 



All persons in charge of instruments, live stock, tents, etc., 

 will make a monthly report of same on form 11, following 

 printed instructions on blank. These reports will be written 

 In copying ink and forwarded to assistant engineer, who will 

 forward all for his work, in one package, to division engineer. 

 After being checked in division engineer's office, an impression 

 copy will be taken and all forwarded in one package to chief 

 engineer. 



Instruments which become unfit for service should be for- 

 warded to Chief Engineer, with a card attached, stating the 

 defects in full. 



Instruments must be properly cared for, and any damage 

 resulting from negligence will be charged to the party at fault, 

 Surplus instruments should be sent in to division engineer. 



REQUISITIONS. (FORM 1018.) 



All requisitions will be made on form 1018, numbered and 

 an impression copy retained. Assistant engineers will make 

 requisition through the division engineer. 



An impression copy of the requisitions made by division en- 

 gineer will be sent to assistant engineer to advise him as to 

 what material has been ordered for his work, and to enable 

 him to check the same upon receipt. 

 Purchases of subsistence stores and camp equipment will be 



