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OFFICE WORK OF A GARRISON BATTERY. 
Brigade and District Monthly Returns, and Weehly Increase 
and Decrease ; 
40. One set of remarks will do for these and all similar returns. 
Nominally due on one day, they are often called for several days in advance, 
and thus a casualty affecting them gets overlooked. Tor example: the 
brigade return may have to go in on the 28th of the month; a man is 
discharged on the 29th, and in making up the next return, that nominally 
commences on the first of the next month, this discharge is likely to be left 
out if there is any change of clerks. All such returns should therefore have 
the columns giving the names of men “joined” or “gone” kept up from 
day to day, each casualty going in as it occurs. Tor this purpose the 
battery copies of these returns, and especially that of the brigade returns, 
should be kept in a printed book, that ought to be supplied by Government. 
j Register of Arms and Accoutrements. 
41. Gives a list in detail of every article forming each set of arms and 
accoutrements, and the date of issue of each article. A side column gives 
the name of each man that has held the set, with the dates of issue to him 
and of his giving them up. Any loss or replacement of any article should 
be carefully noted as in the equipment ledger (see par. 25); the date of 
issue of the lost or returned article being struck out, and that of the one 
replacing it inserted. This register must be treated as an account and 
history of the arms, not merely as a list of the men that have carried them. 
Certificate Booh. 
• 42. Have a book, cut like an alphabetical index, to contain spaces for 
lists of certificates of education, long and short courses, Gymnasia, Laboratory 
course, wheelers', smiths', and other courses, and any really ascertained 
trades. Any useful qualifications might also appear as headings—“ Skilled 
Swimmers/' “Bowers,” “Climbers,” &c. 
Married Boll. 
43. Should contain, first, the names of all men married and on the 
establishment, and their families, giving date of first being brought on the 
establishment, and of what battery, also date of being brought on establish¬ 
ment of the present battery; secondly, at considerable interval, or at the 
other end of the book, the names of all men married with leave waiting to 
come on establishment, giving dates of marriage and the name of the officer 
granting leave; thirdly, the names of all men married without leave. In all 
cases, the date of marriage and the names of the wives and children, as well 
as dates of birth of the children, should be given. 
Register of Marriages and Baptisms. 
44. Bequires no explanation. On the transfer of a married man, his 
marriage and the baptisms of his children are entered here, as well as fresh 
occurrences. 
