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OFFICE WORK OF A GARRISON BATTERY. 
one of his financial transactions. Are not all these checks practically 
useless for their real object; and only of value because he is acting 
honestly? You cannot by paper checks control the person that has the 
practical use of the cash. You may ensure ultimate detection, but that 
is the last thing that clever fools who commit frauds fear. Officers often 
say that they used to lose money till they adopted such and such a 
system ; the truth being, 1 suspect, that the attention incidentally 
called to the cash by any system is what really stops the loss. The 
accounts will always take very long to check; the payments, in a service 
battery, hardly take any time to check. Look after your cash, and you 
need fear little about your accounts. 
Clothing. 
98. The Clothing Regulations can scarcely be said to exist at present 
in any tangible form. The old warrant of 1865 has been altered, and 
re-altered by a number of Army Circulars; while manuscript letters 
have lately been used as the form for communicating important 
decisions. The following letters appear to contain the latest regulations : 
p. o. p. c. p. c. 
No. a. R.H.A. pf 8 March, 1879; General Np. 19 Hussars. 0 f AllgUSt 1879; 
512 2911 474 
and another letter of the same General No. dated 1 February, 
1879. For Foreign Stations, see para. 173 of these notes. A new 
warrant has long been expected and may be out soon. In the mean¬ 
time Majors have to be most careful as to how they act, and had better 
refer any case that admits of the slightest doubt for special decision, not 
trusting to settlements of similar points with other batteries. The 
mode of working in each battery varies in clothing matters so ex¬ 
traordinarily that it has been difficult to define any system; but I trust 
these notes will be useful even if the warrant appears this year. 
All correspondence about clothing is addressed to The Director of 
Clothing, Royal Army Clothing Depot, Grosvenor Road, London, S.W., 
and must be written on the left-hand margin in duplicate. It is strange 
that our departments vary in their choice of margin, and the use of the 
duplicate letter is not apparent, as the department returns it, in case 
of any question being asked therein, with their reply on the margin. 
The department do not follow' this duplicating rule themselves, probably 
finding it useless and inconvenient; and I notice that while a similar 
rule exists for internal correspondence in the Ordnance Store Depart¬ 
ment (para. 828 of their Regulations), a similar exception is made in 
favour of the head office. We may therefore assume that the copying 
of some thousands of letters annually could be dispensed with by an 
alteration of this system. In these notes, for brevity sake, the depart¬ 
ment is called “ Pimlico/ ; 
99. All articles of clothing, that is, head-dresses, helmets or busbies, 
tunics, patrol jackets, pantaloons, overalls, trousers, Wellington, knee, 
and ankle boots, cloaks and capes, great-coats, and capes, and leggings, 
spurs for knee-boots, gloves for mounted men, plain clothes for dis* 
