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held, proceedings on W.O. Form 623, giving tlie dates of issue of all the 
P.W. articles, showing annual and biennial issues separately, and recording 
the state; application should then be made to Pimlico for authority to 
return them. When authority is granted, the articles are sent with 
vouchers W.O. Form 1220, which include the cases or barrels sent, and an 
entry of the transaction is duly made in the ledger, with number and 
date of authority, at page 11 for the new clothing and the cases, and 
for P.W. at page 27. All these issues are, of course, recorded in 
the stock book. For despatch of packages to Pimlico see Army 
Circulars, clauses 208 of 1878, 89 of 1877, 81 of 1879, 238 of 1879. 
On all packages sent from the battery, it must be stated by whom they 
are sent (see A.C. 208 of 1878) : the contractors for the carriage of 
clothing, etc., are, for Great Britain, Messrs. Lavington Brothers, 69, 
Old Bailey, London, E.C., see A.C. 81 of 1879; for Ireland, Messrs. 
Chaplin and Horne, Gresham Street, London, see 89 of 1877 altered 
by 81 of 1879. 
Empty cases and barrels can be returned without authority, but the 
regular vouchers W.O. Form 1220 must pass. Cases can be handed 
over to Garrison Needlewomen’s Association, see A.C. 55 of 1876. 
Surplus articles of clothing of any sort are not to be taken to India, 
see A.C. 197 of 1879, para. 9. 
Whether for transfer to another battery, or return to Pimlico, no 
articles leave the store till surveyed by a board. 
Regimental Necessaries . 
131. Due provision has to be made for the regimental necessaries 
required. They are demanded, as wanted, on W. O. Form 307 in 
duplicate, inspected on arrival by a Board of Survey, as with clothing, 
and brought on charge in the clothing ledger at pages 57 and 58, and 
in the necessaries ledger (see para. 24). Their issue is accounted for 
in the necessaries ledger from day to day. When issued on payment a 
small calculation is made monthly in the necessaries ledger, across the 
foot of the columns, to get the value of the articles issued, and to prove 
that the right amount is recovered from the men and carried to the 
necessaries fund, or credited to Pimlico at the end of the month. The 
amounts recovered are credited to Government, monthly or quarterly, in 
the Pay List, supported by W. O. Forms 611 and 606, and the same 
amounts are entered in the clothing ledger, page 73, if the necessaries 
are obtained from Pimlico. The recoveries for necessaries, battery 
property, are simply carried to the credit of the necessaries fund at the 
end of the month (see para. 21). 
132. When issued to recruits as part of their free kitts, necessaries 
are accounted for in a separate page of the necessaries ledger. In the 
clothing ledger they are accounted for at pages 65 and 66 properly, C( as 
per nominal roll, 5 ’ the number of free kitts agreeing with the number of 
recruits shown as clothed and kitted. It is probably best in your own 
