(4) Each package shall be marked, so far as practicable, in addition to the general address, with:

(a) The package number, in_relation to the number of packages of the kind in the shipment. To be marked on the upper left-hand corner of the address side of the package.

(b) The gross weight of the package. To be marked on the upper right-hand corner of the address side of the package.

(c) The shipment-order number and the number of the store invoice covering the package. To be marked on the lower left-hand corner of the address side of the package. The number of the invoice shall be followed by an abbreviation of the name of the bureau under which the package is shipped.

(d) The name of the station from which the shipment is made. To be marked on the lower right-hand corner of the address side of the package.

(e) The name of the ship, when a shipment is made to a general storekeeper for a particular vessel. To be marked under the general address.

(f) When not practicable to put the above markings on the address side of the package,. they shall be placed on the most available space on the package.

(5) Shipments for navy yards, excepting medical stores, shall be consigned to general storekeepers, and those for ships to the captains thereof.

(6) Articles for more than one ship or department shall not be placed in the same package except under extraordinary circumstances. In such cases each article shall be distinctly tagged, with the name of the ship or department for which it is destined.

Bills of lading

1287. (1) General storekeepers shall be responsible for the shipment of all stores under their charge by such conveyances as and other papers. may be furnished and conformably to orders. Particular attention must be paid to have the articles to be transported delivered by the bills of lading at the precise place (depot, steamer landing, or navy yard) to which they have been ordered, and that they are in good shipping order. They shall attend to procuring the customhouse documents necessary, in case of shipments to foreign ports.

(2) The price, rate, or amount of freight to be paid, and the number of days and the amount of daily demurrage after they shall have expired must be explicitly stated in the charter party and bill of lading.

(3) Bills of lading shall particularly state the number and character of the contents of packages of each kind and their exact gross weight and measurement.

(4) The party by whom the freight is to be paid must also be stated, who, unless otherwise specially agreed upon for some good cause, should be the purchasing pay officer nearest the place whence the stores are shipped.

1288. (1) When a supply steamer of the Navy is detailed to carry Naval supply freight in quantity, the public freight of the ship shall be supplied steamers. through the general storekeeper of the yard where the ship is being loaded. Stores that are to go by a supply steamer, and which are not prepared and invoiced by the general storekeeper, shall be delivered to him with the proper invoices by the shippers. Stores belonging to the Medical Department and to the Marine Corps shall be delivered in care of the general storekeeper and the invoices for the same transmitted through him.

Making shipments.

(2) The pay officer of the supply steamer shall, under the direction of the captain, be charged with the details of stowage and general supervision of cargo. He shall notify the general storekeeper, through the proper channels, when the vessel is ready to take freight and specify the order in which it is to be stowed.

(3) The general storekeeper shall prepare on prescribed forms freight lists in triplicate of the stores to be shipped, and before loading is begun shall deliver two copies to the pay officer of the supply steamer. When the cargo is all delivered and stowed, the pay officer shall return one copy to the general storekeeper receipted, on or before the day the vessel sails, for transmission to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.

(4) Stores prepared or received for shipment by the general storekeeper after the regular freight lists have been sent on board shall be entered on supplementary lists, which shall, when possible, be delivered in triplicate to the pay officer of the supply steamer before the packages are actually put on board.

(5) Freight list sheets shall be fastened together in book form. Lists prepared by different general storekeepers are to be assembled separately.

(6) Pay officers of supply steamers shall receipt, subject to verification, for the contents of all packages as shown by the invoices. Discrepancies found when the packages are finally opened shall be subject to an investigation by a duly appointed board, as provided by article 1293, and the consignee shall adjust his books accordingly. When stores are diverted from their original destination, a report of the fact shall at once be made by the pay officer of the supply steamer to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, stating the authority under which the delivery was made.

(7) The pay officer of a supply steamer shall enter on a separate manifest a list of all private packages not received from or through a general storekeeper which have been taken on board for delivery to persons in the Government service abroad; and he shall send a certified copy of this manifest to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts on or before the day of sailing.

(8) Stores taken from freight for the use of the supply steamer shall be regularly invoiced by the pay officer to the proper ship's department.

(9) Stores shipped in small quantities by regular cruising ships shall be treated as provided for in article 1292.

1289. (1) The general method prescribed for issues to ships at navy yards shall be pursued in making shipments to general storekeepers, to ships in commission not at a navy yard, and to ships under construction at private shipyards, the store invoices, summaries, and record books being practically the same in form, and embracing the same data.

(2) Upon making shipments of stores of any kind the general storekeeper shall forward direct to the officer to whom the stores are consigned a bill of lading, with required store invoices, and a bill of lading only, through the commandant, to the officer in command of the station to which the stores are consigned.

(3) When deemed necessary, the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts will mail to the commanding officer of a foreign naval station a copy of the freight list of a supply steamer bound to the station.

(4) Store invoices of miscellaneous mixed shipments shall show the contents of each individual package separately, under the package number.

(5) Invoices shall also cover only articles embraced in one shipment; and each invoice shall bear on its face the date and number of shipment order and such reference to marks on the package concerned as may be necessary to make known its contents without opening the package.

(6) The number of copies of each store invoice to be prepared and to be forwarded in making shipments shall be as follows:

(a) To general storekeepers: For articles intended for general issue, two copies, one to be retained by the general storekeeper making the shipment and one mailed to and retained by the consignee; for articles for a specified ship in commission, or for a ship fitting out at a navy yard, four copies, one to be retained by the general storekeeper making the shipment and three mailed to and retained by consignee, one to be used as his invoice on which to take up the articles in his great ledgers and the other two to be used in making the issue to the ship.

(b) To ships in commission not at a navy yard, two copies, one to be retained by the general storekeeper and one mailed to and retained by the head of department on board ship to which the stores pertain.

(c) To ships under construction at a private shipyard, three copies, one to be retained by the general storekeeper and two mailed to the officer on duty at the shipyard who receives the stores. One of these copies shall be receipted by him and returned to the general storekeeper, and the other retained for delivery to the proper department officer of the ship when it goes in commission.

(7) When shipment is made over the land-grant and bonded railroads, an additional copy of the store invoice must be made for the depot quartermaster of the army, to whom the shipment is turned

over

(8) For shipments to general storekeepers the summaries shall be forwarded at the end of each month, the summary for each account under each bureau covering all store invoices sent during the month.

(9) For shipments to a ship in commission not at a navy yard the summaries shall accompany the store invoices covering each shipment.

(10) For shipments to a private shipyard the summaries shall not be forwarded until the ship goes in commission, when they shall be forwarded to the proper department officer on board the ship, and shall cover all store invoices previously sent to the officer on duty at the shipyard, and delivered by him to the ship's officers.

(11) One copy of the summary, receipted by the officer receiving it, shall in each instance be returned to the general storekeeper making the shipment.

1290. (1) A report of each shipment made and each shipment Report of shipreceived shall be forwarded to the Paymaster General.

(2) The report of shipment made shall state the shipment number, date of order, file number, requisition number, on account of what bureau, navy yard or station, line of transportation, date of shipment, consignee, and whether all articles in order referred to are shipped, and if not, the reason therefor, and when the remaining articles (naming them) will be shipped.

ment made and received.

What report of shipment made

shall state.

What report of

(3) The report of shipment received shall state consignor, navy yard or station, date of shipment, date of order, file number, requi- shipment resition number, bureau under which required, date of receipt, and

ceived shall state.

Duty of officer

whether or not all articles ordered shipped as per invoice have been received, and, it not, a list of the same.

1291. The officer receiving stores by shipment shall indorse such receiving stores receipt upon the bills of lading, particularly stating over his signaby shipment. ture the condition of the supplies. In the event of there being any loss or damage, the indorsement must fully show the character and amount of such loss or damage, in order that proper deductions may be made by the officer drawing up the bill for freight. An accomplished bill of lading shall be returned to the general storekeeper who shipped the supplies.

Stores shipped

1292. (1) When supplies are shipped by a Government conveyby a Government ance, the general storekeeper shipping them shall at once send to the Paymaster General a report of shipment made.

vessel.

(2) At the time of making shipment a bill of lading, in addition to the invoices, shall be made out in triplicate by the general storekeeper making the shipment. This bill must show the number and character of the packages, and, after careful verification thereof, shall be receipted by the pay officer of the vessel carrying the shipment, if one is attached thereto, and, if not, by the captain. One copy shall be retained by the signing officer and the others returned to the shipper, who shall send one, indorsed with his certificate of its correctness, by mail to the consignee. The officer signing the bill of lading shall be held responsible for the packages therein enumerated until they shall have been delivered to the consignee and a detailed receipt for the same given by him.

(3) Stores shipped by Government conveyance to United States island possessions for general storekeepers or ships shall be invoiced to the pay officer of the carrying vessel, who shall receipt for the stores as packed, the contents of each package being clearly shown on the invoice. Any discrepancies in the contents of the packages when finally opened shall be treated in the manner prescribed in article 1293. Store invoices in such cases shall be marked "cargo. Four copies of the invoice shall be made, two without heading, to be turned over to the pay officer of the vessel, to be used by him in reinvoicing the stores.

Shipment to be 1293. (1) When any shipment is received it shall be immediately compared with compared with the bill of lading, and should the packages bear the bill of lading. least evidence of having been opened and tampered with while in transit, the fact shall be immediately reported to the commandant, who shall direct that they be opened and checked in the presence of the board of survey. Where there is no external evidence of loss, and articles are found, on opening the packages, to be missing, the fact shall, in like manner, be reported to the commandant, who shall direct the matter to be investigated by the board of survey, article 1448. In both cases a thorough inquiry will be made as to the cause and responsibility for the shortage. A statement of the means of transportation and condition of the packages when received shall be incorporated in the report of the board.

(2) The recipient of the supplies shall make no alterations in the figures of an invoice or summary, but shall indicate the necessary corrections, and receipt the invoice or summary with the reservation "except as to articles or values indicated as not received, in whole or in part, as per report of the board of survey, dated

When a ship 1294. (1) When a ship, not in commission, is sent from one yard not in commis- to another, and articles of equipage and supplies belonging to her sion requires sup- are put on board, they shall be placed in charge of the officer desigplies. nated for the command of the ship. As in the case of ordinary ship

ments, the general storekeeper shall designate some person connected with his department to check upon a list all articles as they are stowed, and to certify the lists. The person performing this work shall be held personally responsible for the correctness of the list so certified. The general storekeeper shall see that the invoices agree with the lists checked and certified to as above directed.

(2) Articles not required for use in transit, which can be stored in the storerooms, shall be so stored, and the storerooms sealed by the general storekeeper. A detailed list, in triplicate, of all articles not so sealed shall be prepared by him and receipted, after verification, by the officer placed in command of the ship, who shall retain one copy and return the other two to the general storekeeper. The latter shall forward one copy to the general storekeeper to whom the supplies are invoiced. The officer placed in command shall be responsible for supplies not sealed, and that the seals are not broken. If it becomes necessary to break the seal of any storeroom, the officer in command shall become responsible for the contents. Upon the arrival of the ship at he. destination it shall be immediately ascertained whether or not all the articles embraced in the invoices are on board, seals being broken in the presence of the officer in command, and of the general storekeeper who is to receive the articles. If any articles are found to be missing, the fact shall be reported to the commandant for the immediate action of a board of survey.

1295. (1) When shipment is to be made over the land-grant and bonded railroads, the articles shall be properly packed for transportation, appropriately marked, and placed in charge of the nearest officer of the Quartermaster's Department of the Army, who may be designated for this duty by the Secretary of War. The quartermaster, at the request of the proper officer of the Navy Department, will ship them through to their destination.

(2) General storekeepers shall furnish depot quartermasters with store invoices, and enter thereon, in all cases, the character of the supplies contained in the packages, the bureau to which they pertain, the appropriation for which the freight charges are payable, and a reference to the requisition or order authorizing the shipment. Especial attention must be paid to these requirements in order that depot quartermasters may be enabled to note these facts on the bills of lading, thus insuring full information when the vouchers are prepared or claims are adjudicated by the accounting officers of the Treasury. The usual expenditure invoices will be forwarded to the consignee.

SECTION 4.-REQUISITIONS ON SHORE.

Shipments over land-grant and

bonded railroads.

Stub requisi

1296. (1) All expenditures of supplies by general storekeepers for use of the departments of Ordnance, Construction and Repair, tions on general Steam Engineering, Equipment, Yards and Docks, and Supplies and storekeepers. Accounts, must be preceded by a stub requisition in duplicate, signed by the head of the department or by such officers as have been designated by name by the head of department in writing to the general storekeeper as authorized to sign them.

(2) No stub requisition upon a general storekeeper shall be filled which fails to express the account, job order, title, subtitle, and general head under which supplies are wanted.

(3) Stub requisitions shall be numbered consecutively by the head of each department and embrace material under one account, title, subtitle, and general head only.

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