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motion to 31st March. They are, however, entitled to receive in 
kind the extra badges and chevrons. 
Men coming home from India receive the rates due to them, after 
authority has been received from Pimlico. 
At Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and Ceylon, Generals may 
withhold the issue of cloth tunics and trousers, when compensation will 
be allowed on 31st March to assist in providing white clothing. See 
A.C. 34 of 1879, para. 4. 
In all other cases compensation is only granted to men if all clothing 
is withheld from them, the Major satisfying himself on 31st March, 
1879, that the clothing in their possession will last till 31st March, 
1880, and so on, and obtaining the written sanction of the District 
General to the articles due being withheld. The only exception to this is 
that boots may, if necessary, be issued when other articles are withheld. 
Thus a man cannot draw his trousers and get compensation for his tunic. 
The amount due will be drawn at the end of the year on W.O. Form 
604, with a certificate thereon that no issue of clothing in kind has been 
made, except boots, accompanied by the original authority of the 
General for withholding the issue. 
All compensation is drawn on W.O. Form 604, sent in original, a 
copy being being kept with the battery, at the end of the year, 31st 
March, except apparently for men returning from India, for whom it is 
drawn at once. In the nominal roll of the ledger and the man^s account 
book the' letters “ C,” in red ink, are inserted in each column that the 
issue, if made, of any article would have been recorded. The same is 
done in the detailed account, where a note of the amount paid is also 
given. 
For compensation instead of the issue of plain clothes on discharge, 
see para. 140 of these notes. 
Clothing .—Responsibility. 
145, It is well, before proceeding to the manner of accounting for 
the clothing, to consider the Major’s liability in reference to it. From 
the time the clothing enters his store until it is regularly issued to some 
man, transferred to another battery, or returned to Pimlico, the Major 
is responsible for any loss or damage to it. If any deficiency or injury 
is believed to have occurred between the time the clothing left Pimlico 
and its examination by the Board of Survey, Pimlico would have to 
bear the loss or prove the damage was done in the battery store, the 
Major only having to show that due care was taken of the cases after 
arrival. Once, however, the articles are taken on charge, that is, imme¬ 
diately the Board of Survey have completed their work, the responsibility 
for all damage or loss rests with the Major; and, failing proof to 
exculpate him, he has to make if good. He can only escape the con¬ 
sequent charge by obtaining a Court of Inquiry, and producing evidence 
before it that he has taken every possible precaution against thieves, fire, 
damp, moths, and vermin, or whatever may have been the cause of the 
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