296 Public Establishment for 



finished manufactures destined for private sale. The 

 former are kept in magazines or store-rooms, of which 

 he alone has the keys ; the latter are kept in rooms set 

 apart as a store or shop, where they are exposed for pub- 

 lic inspection and sale. To prevent abuses in the sale 

 of these manufactures, their prices, which are determin- 

 ed upon a calculation of what they cost, and a certain 

 per cent added for the profits of the house, are marked 

 upon the goods, and are never altered ; and a regular 

 account is kept of all, even of the most inconsiderable 

 articles sold, in which not only the commodity, with its 

 quality, quantity, and price, is specified, but the name 

 of the purchaser, and the day of the month when the 

 purchase was made, are mentioned. 



All articles of clothing destined for the army which 

 are made up in the house, as well as all goods in the 

 piece destined for military clothing, are lodged in 

 the Military Magazine, which is situated at some dis- 

 tance from the Military Workhouse, and is under the 

 care and inspection of the military store-keeper. 



From this Military Magazine, which may be con- 

 sidered as an appendix to the Military Workhouse, 

 and is in fact under the same direction, the regiments 

 are supplied with every article of their clothing. But 

 in order that the army accounts may be more simple 

 and more easily checked, and that the total annual 

 expense of each regiment may be more readily ascer- 

 tained, the regiments pay, at certain fixed prices, for all 

 the articles they receive from the Military Magazine, 

 and charge such expenditures in the annual account 

 which they send in to the War OfiEice. 



The order observed with regard to the delivery of 

 the raw materials by the store -keeper or steward of the 



