OFFICE WORK OF A GARRISON BATTERY. 
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184. The packing cases are brought on charge at page 6, Receipts, of 
the ledger, but they should soon be returned to the Department, regular 
delivery and receipt vouchers, W.O. Form 1220, being sent with them (see 
Regulations Ordnance Stores Department, page 18, para. 112, and also 
page 31, para. 222), while their issue is recorded at page 6, Issues, of the 
ledger. The receipt voucher when returned, signed, by the Commissary- 
General, is clipped to the ledger to eventually accompany it for audit. 
See Eq. paras. 65 to 72. Care should be taken to keep the cases 
received from the Ordnance Department separate in store from those sent 
by the Clothing Department. See Army Circular 113 of 1876. 
185. All the articles of equipment received, except the arms, have 
now to be marked. The accoutrements and musical instruments are 
marked in accordance with Eq. paras. 272 to 275 and 289 to 300 (arms, 
if done, under Errata issued with Army Circular of 1st June, 1879, 
clause 131), so that any article, except some too small to bear all the 
marks, can at once be identified, as belonging to the battery and to a 
certain stand of arms (or set of accoutrements) in the battery. For 
cost, see Eq. paras. 298 and 299. As the braces,” however, are not 
interchangeable, it will save trouble, in the case of a battery receiving 
its first supply of valise equiqment, not to mark the braces until they 
have been actually tried on the men, and until it is quite certain the 
proportion received of the different sizes will do. (See General Order 
No. 62 of July 1878, instructions fitting valise equipment, especially 
para. 7.) The proportion of sizes for braces given in paragraph 3 of the 
order are not suited to the artillery, see para. 178 of these notes. 
186. Before issue to the men' the description of each set of arms and 
accoutrements is entered in detail in the register of arms (para. 41), 
ample space being left for the names of all the men that may in 
subsequent years receive the set, and also for the entry of other articles, 
replacing those of the first issue, lost, destroyed, or returned as 
unserviceable. Leggings, although accounted for as clothing, and never 
shown on the equipment ledger, are generally, for convenience, 
numbered with the stand of arms, so that a man's equipment and 
leggings all bear the same number. See paragraph 129, and also see 
Ordnance Stores Department Reg. para. 488, and A.C. 15 of 1880, page 
33. 
187. On issue to the men, whether for the first time, or on any set 
changing hands, each article is examined by the Sergeant-Major in the 
presence of the man who is to receive it: the man himself is given full 
liberty, or rather is made , to examine every article in detail; while he is 
warned that any damage not noted at the time will be charged against 
him. All defects and special marks are noted in the register. The 
name of the man receiving the set and the date of issue to him is 
entered in the register, and the number of the set is entered against the 
man's name in the squad book of his sub-division. Recruits should be 
specially warned not to make fresh holes in their belts or braces, but to 
take them to the Sergeant-Major if any alteration is required. Special 
