Excerpt from Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1905, Vol. 9: Report of the Chief of Ordnance Under this system the Officer controlling expenditures, having the reports of the percentage of work done from the officers In charge of the manufacture or purchases, can readily ascertain at any time whether or not he has the necessary funds to complete the work. In all cases of large expenditures, where the amounts involved are large, no possibility of exceeding the allotment is admitted if the system is properly carried out. This system was fully thought out and in Operation before Con gress enacted the recent law impressing upon officers in charge of expenditures the obligation of keeping expenditures within appro priations. Under the system above outlined it is not possible for an allotment to be exceeded when the records are kept up to date. It is obvious that as long as expenditures are kept within allotments appropriations can not be exceeded, for it is the primary duty of this Office to see that no allotments are made in excess of appropriations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.