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heading ''Clothing, camp supplies, and equipment" (p. 152) will serve 

 to indicate the general scope of the accounts. 



DAILY REPORT OF CONSTRUCTION. 



Form No. 8 is suggested for the daily report of construction. In 

 addition to the name, date, weather, and other hues which form the 

 heading, there are spaces for reporting the amount and kind of all 

 labor, such as superintendence, hired labor, teams, and convicts, the 

 wages per day, and the subdivision of the time of each kind of labor 

 among a number of work accounts, such as rock, loose rock, and earth 

 excavation, and quarrying and crushing rock. There are also spaces for 

 reporting the amount of time lost by reason of bad weather, Sundays 

 and hohdays, sickness, and camp duty, and for the total time of each 

 kind of labor. In the second section of the report there is provision 

 for the daily report of materials of construction used in kind, amount, 

 and cost, and for charging such materials to their proper work account. 

 Finally, by means of the progress report at the bottom of the sheet, 

 the locaUty and kind of the day's work may be shown and also the 

 locahty and length of the finished work. The form is designed as a 

 daily report for the reason that the information it should convey can 

 only be accurately recorded daily, while the operations of the day are 

 fresh in the minds of the officials. 



MONTHLY REPORT OF CONSTRUCTION. 



The last of the cost-account reports is shown as Form No. 9, namely, 

 the monthly report of construction. The report is designed for the 

 monthly summary of the information contained on the daily reports 

 of construction, and for the purpose of completing and reducing 

 that information to useful form. One sheet should be made 

 out to the account of each class of work done during the month, and 

 the entries of the time of each kind of labor employed should be 

 made on the proper date lines each day, at the same time that the 

 daily report is made out. At the end of the month the total number 

 of days served by each kind of labor on a given class of work will 

 be shown by the sums of the daily time entries in the spaces pro- 

 vided for "Total days." Below the latter spaces are others for 

 reporting the daily wage and board of each kind of free labor, and 

 for the sum of the two, which represents the total daily rate. Mul- 

 tiplying "Total days" by "Total rate" in each case gives the "Total 

 amount," or cost of each kind of labor for the month. The daily 

 rate in the case of convict labor is the daily per capita cost of mainte- 

 nance, and this can not be determined each month on account 

 of the long life of some of the items of supplies and equipment. 

 Howev(!r, for the ])urposc of month to month comparisons of work 



