
= 15 - 
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
Cancellation of Condition No. 7 on Standard 
Government Bill of Lading. 
(Secretary's Memorandum No. 611) 
In view of the refusal in some instances of common carriers to 
accept for transportation Department material under the standard Govern= 
ment bill of lading form No. 1058, G.A.0O., General Regulations No. 69, 
without the cancsllation therefrom of ssction 7 of "Conditions" under 
"General conditions and instructions" on the reverse of the form, which 
section reads: "In case of loss, damage, or shrinkage in transit, the 
rules and conditions governing commercial shipments shall not -apply 
as to period within which notice thereof should be given carriers or 
to period within which claims therefor shall be made or suit instituted," 
‘officers and employees of the Department by whom bills of lading are 
executed on behalf of the Department should, in case of such specific 
refusal, cancel the section in question and annex thereto and sign with 
‘official title a marginal note, "Cancelled prior to execution under 
authority of the Secretary of Agriculture." The deletion of the section 
should be confined to the cases where the carrier makes this action a 
condition precedent to the transportation of the material. 
Fe TS meer ea as OL ES me eS 
(Communication from Comptroller General to 
Secretary of Agriculture No. A-27784.) 
"In connection with a survey that is now being made of the several 
bureaus of the Department of Agriculture, it has been found that in the 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics a procedure has been adopted for the 
payment of rental vouchers in accordance with the plan outlined in the 
"Bureau of Agricultural Economics News,' issue of June 12, 1928, as 
follows: 
'In the interest of speeding up payment of rental 
vouchers in the future the Business Manager suggests that 
the various field offices leasing commercial space furnish 
all the monthly vouchers for the entire fiscal year on July 
1. The vouchers will be held in the Section of Audits and 
Accounts. Around the 25th of each month the vouchers for 
that particular month will be forwarded to the General Ac-— 
counting Office for preauditing. This will permit the mail- 
ing of checks promptly at the beginning of the succeeding 
month. Under the present system the checks are not mailed 
until the 8th or 10th of the month and quite frequently they 
are delayed more than a month for one reason or another.' 
