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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
2. Department of Receipt .—The storerooms of this department must 
be adjacent to those for issue, but so separated as to prevent liability to 
the mixture of stores coming in and going out. 
Stores received may be classed as follows :— 
(a) (( Unserviceable ” or obsolete stores, returned from regiments, 
batteries, or departments. 
(< h ) “ serviceable,” returned owing to departure of regiment, &c., or 
change. 
(<?) Stores from factories of arsenal, or other Government factories. 
(d) Stores from contractors, to replace or complete stock. 
(a) The regulations on this head are generally understood, and need 
not here be repeated. Personal communication between the officer 
sending in the stores and the Asst.-Superintendent will often adjust 
matters of difference. The tendency to call for special Boards of 
Survey should be checked, as the officer returning the stores and the 
officials of the arsenal should be mutually responsible for the correct 
performance of duty. It is needless to point out, what is a matter of 
regulation—that no stores can be condemned for mere change in pattern. 
No state in the world could bear the expense of continual replacement, 
and it should be the duty of all officers to use stores committed to their 
charge as their own property, and not regard the supplying department 
as a mere agent for drawing upon an inexhaustible source of wealth;* 
while on the other hand, those departmental officers charged with 
supply should know the requirements of the service, and the uses of 
the articles they issue, so as to be able to supervise them efficiently, and 
have a fair judgment on those returned for receipt. 
(b) Care is of course necessary that the stores of this class answer in 
quality and quantity to their invoices. 
(c) Same remark is applicable. 
(( d ) Stores of this class require especial attention. 
In the receipt of combustible stores great care is necessary, and they 
must be examined in some safe place, under the special supervision of 
the D.-A.-S. in charge of the magazines, who would, when necessary, 
call in the assistance of the Laboratory. 
In this department, the D.-A.-S. in charge, or his assistant, will per¬ 
sonally superintend the unloading and opening of all packages. 
The stores will then be counted, &c., and their condition, after their 
entry in the Receipt Book, carefully inspected and shown; the invoice 
being marked “ correct” or otherwise, so that the Asst.-Superintendent 
in charge may know what course to adopt. The stores will then be 
received over by the various Storeholders, and the invoice will be 
forwarded to the Asst.-Superintendent for registry in the office, and com- 
* A really important point is correctness of “ nomenclatureonly those charged with supply of 
stores can appreciate the difficulties of supply when this is wanting. Full information, and 
drawings with specifications should he given when the article demanded is a new supply. This 
prevents much labour in reference. 
