FURTHER NOTES 
ON THE 
OFFICE WORK OF A GARRISON BATTERY. 
BY 
MAJOR R. PHIPPS, 
ROYAL ARTILLERY. 
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The Notes now printed are a continuation of those that appeared in 
the Institution's Proceedings for May 1879, Yol. X., No. 6. A 
Manual of Office Work ought to fulfil certain conditions:—First, it should 
contain sufficient general description to enable any one coming fresh to 
the work to understand the principal points to attend to, and the 
connection between the different accounts. Secondly, it should give 
enough special detail to prevent errors in the treatment of the ordinary 
casualties. Thirdly, it should be short enough to be reprinted annually 
and sold for 6d. or Is. Such a manual would he useful as a means of 
recording the numerous alterations made from time to time in the 
ordinary routine, which are now so often and so inevitably overlooked. 
Its contents would vary to some extent from year to year, as the 
occasional publication of a Circular containing all the regulations on 
some subject would enable the explanation to be omitted that was 
necessary as long as a number of clauses of different dates, bearing on 
the matter, had to be referred to. 
I believe that the two instalments of Notes now published, with 
another very short one that I hope to prepare, will form a fair ground¬ 
work for such a manual, especially after they have been properly 
arranged and shortened. When the new Clothing Warrant is issued, 
and a system of accounts authorised, much explanation now required 
can be omitted: and I propose to then attempt the formation of a 
Manual, after which it will be for the Batteries to decide whether its 
annual issue would be of use to them. 
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