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    "ocrText": "[C:A/R/56.]\nB\n-10 Tedto TO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR EQUIPMENT IlA\n681-A. There shall normally be but one accountable officer 1 for equipment\n\"C,\" of each bureau for a regiment, separate battalion, field hospital, ambulance\ncompany, or other tactical organization for which equipment \"C\" is prescribed\nand such officer will account on a separate return for all articles listed in the\nvarious equipment manuals as equipment \"C,\" and he will be referred to in the\nfollowing paragraphs as the Unit supply officer.\" W hen one officer serves as\nsupply officer for all bureaus, he will be designated as \" Regimental, field hospi-\ntal, etc., unit supply officer,\" but when several officers serve as supply officers of\nthe several bureaus, each, except the Quartermaster Corps, will be designated as\n\" Regimental, etc., Ordnance, Engineer, or Signal officers,\" as the case may be.\nThe supply officer of the Quartermaster Corps will be designated as the regi-\nmental, etc., supply officer. Should local conditions make it desirable or neces-\nsary to have an accounting officer for any detachment serving separately from\nits parent organization, one may be designated for that purpose and the articles\nof equipment \"C\" that pertain to such detachment will be transferred to the\ndesignated accountable officer of the detachment, but as soon as the conditions\nmaking this separate accountability necessary cease, the account will be closed\nby transferring back to the unit supply officer of the parent organization the\naccountability for the property which had been carried separately. Batteries\ntroops, companies, or detachments will hold on memorandum receipt from the\nunit supply officer of the unit of which they form a part articles of equipment\n\"C\" prescribed in the equipment manuals as pertaining to them. (C. A. R.\nNo.\n56, May 10, 1917.)\n681-B. All property received by such unit supply officer will be accounted\nfor on authorized blanks of a loose-leaf character, with a separate sheet for\neach article and columns for date, voucher numbers. debit entries. credit\nentries, and balances. Vouchers to the account will be numbered serially,\nbeginning with No. 1, through the six months' accounting period, regard-\nless of transfers from one officer to another and will be posted to the\naccount currently. The account will be kept in duplicate, an original and\na carbon copy. On June 30 and December 31 of each year the account will\nbe examined as provided in paragraph 681-D; and the original record, together\nwith all vouchers pertaining thereto not previously forwarded, mailed direct\nto the chief of the bureau to which the property pertains. Before being\nmailed the correctness of the account, together with a notation of the serial\nnumbers of the vouchers pertaining thereto, will be certified to by the unit\nsupply officer. (C. A. R. No: 56, May 10, 1917,)\n9d 681-C. When an officer is relieved as unit supply officer, his account will be\nclosed by drawing a line below the last entry on each sheet, immediately\nbelow which will be entered the balance of the article, with the notation\nopposite thereto \" Received from predecessor When a transfer has been made\nthe officer making the transfer will certify to the correctness of the account\nand will, after the account has been audited, mail direct to the chief of the\nbureau to which the property pertains the original vouchers to the account\nup to the date of transfer. These will be accompanied by a letter of transmittal,\nwhich will enumerate the vouchers, giving date of the transfer and name of\nthe officer to whom the transfer was made. The receiving officer will acknowl-\nedge receipt of the balances shown on the return account by signing the receipt\nattached thereto, and will furnish a signed copy of such receipt to the trans-\nferring officer. (C. A. R. 56, May 10, 1917.)\néd\nof"
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