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keeping a stock book or a detailed account. The fact of any article 
being made away with and not replaced would be still more difficult to 
trace in after years. 
Articles made away with. 
168. A man who makes away with any necessaries, except for those 
of a free kit fraudulently received, is only placed under stoppage to 
replace them; this is simply a battery transaction, as the Major has 
to supply him, and if the articles are not replaced—for example, if the 
man is discharged after trial—no stoppages are made. In the case of a 
free kit fraudulently obtained, the man bas to pay the full original 
value of the necessaries, the money being credited as recovered, no 
payment being made by the battery till recovery. For any article 
of clothing made away with, the man has to pay, not the cost of 
replacing, but the unexpired value of the article made away with. The 
price of clothing and necessaries is at present given in A.C. 71 of 1880, 
Appendix, except helmets, for which see A.C. 239 of 1879, and brass 
numerals, etc., 121 of 1877. Thus for clothing a man is charged the 
full value less the proportionate part for each full month the clothing has 
been worn, but plus the value when worn out. Only the amount actually 
recovered is credited monthly in the pay list, and these amounts are re¬ 
corded in the form given at page 53 of the clothing ledger. As soon as 
a man is convicted of losing or making away with any article, a note to that 
effect should be made in the nominal roll against the mam’s name, and also 
among the issues of part worn, page 27. The articles taken away by a 
deserter are written off in the nominal roll under the heading “ Taken 
away by Transfers and Deserters.” In the detailed account (para. 171) 
all articles of clothing lost or made away with are at once entered with 
full remarks. 
For the disposal and crediting of articles of clothing bought by a 
man to replace others made away with, etc., see paragraph 5 of letter 
p.o. 
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For price of time -expired articles, see paragraph 118 of these notes. 
Closing of the Ledger. 
169. At the end of the clothing year, 31st March, all the various 
accounts in the ledger being closed, and the remain struck (for necessaries 
see paras. 135 and 136), a Board of Survey assembles and actually 
counts all the stock in hand of clothing, necessaries, and sea kitt 
necessaries, comparing the totals, as counted, with those in the ledger, 
and recording them on W.O. Form 623. Of course a preliminary 
stock-taking is made by the battery. If from any cause the assembling 
of this Board is delayed, there may be discrepancies between their totals 
and those in the ledger caused by issues or receipts belonging to the new 
year. In such cases the Major attaches an explanatory memorandum 
giving particulars of the difference, and how it was caused. The real 
