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The enclosure must be well drained; and both indoors and outside 
the proper means for accurate weighment must exist, together with 
appliances such as cranes, &c., for hoisting heavy goods. 
This department may conveniently be situated on the left of the 
general plan of buildings, looking to the front, and the Department of 
Receipt on the right, which arrangement will greatly facilitate the 
modes of egress and ingress. 
In the organisation of our arsenal, we are not concerned with the 
method of business by which authority is primarily given for the supply 
of stores. The requisition may be made to meet a demand for regu¬ 
lated equipment, or to meet an extraordinary demand; and upon the 
requisition we are required to supply, by issue from store or manufac¬ 
ture, as quickly and efficiently as possible, the articles therein demanded. 
Instances, however, must occur, when a requisition must be met without 
the previous approval of superior authority. The responsibility for 
supply rests, in this case, with the Superintendent of the Arsenal ; and 
it is to this authority alone, or to the Asst.-Superintendent, to whom the 
duty may be confided, the D.-A.-S. of the Issue Department has to 
look. 
The method of business would be somewhat as follows :— 
Requisitions and demands in the prescribed form, after registry and 
numbering, &c., would pass from the hands of the Superintendent or 
Asst.-Superintendent to the D.-A.-S. of the Issue Department, who, 
assisted if necessary, would enter the requisition in his Requisition 
Booh. 
The requisition should have attached to it a printed form with the 
names of the various departments of the arsenal and stores, with two 
columns for date and hour of receipt by the Storeholder. The requisi¬ 
tion would then be passed to the latter functionary, who would either 
copy, or eliminate from the demand, the stores which come under his 
section, entering them in a book. The requisition would then be passed 
to the next Storeholder concerned, and so on. The Storeholders 
interested would have been named or marked off in the first instance on 
the printed form by the Asst.-Superintendent. 
When a Storeholder has not stores to meet the demand, he would at 
once send in to the Asst.-Superintendent in charge of these departments 
a Deficiency Report, showing what stores he is unable to supply; these 
reports would be entered in a guard book for portability, and the 
Superintendent or Asst.-Superintendent would order the supply, where 
possible, by manufacture. And here it may be noticed that the 
Superintendent of an arsenal should always be in a position to execute 
an order the authority for which has been given by regulation or by superior 
power. The Superintendent, then, is the person who must decide the 
best manner, whether by manufacture or local contract, in which the 
demand can be satisfied. On the requisition which comes from superior 
authority must be shown whether unconditional supply is meant, or 
whether the condition is named as to the stores being in stock. 
The mode of executing, &c., the orders for manufacture will be spoken 
of hereafter, under section B. 
The stores for issue would then be brought as soon as possible to the 
