Manual of military cooking / prepared at the Army School of Cookery.

Date:
1910
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Manual of military cooking / prepared at the Army School of Cookery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Claims. 106 Gen. No. 1719 an officer duly authorized by them; and such sanction will not be given unless the circumstances represented show sufficient reasons for the allowances not having been drawn at the proper time. 12. Claims for allowances will be made on the appropriate Army forms, and will be endorsed by the head of the staff or department, or by the O.C. the unit, to which the claimant belongs. Abroad, oiBcers leaving station. Loral regulations abroad. Tem- porary deviations from rates, lABues on repayment 13. The claims of an officer or soldier quitting a station abroad should be adjusted before he leaves the command ; if from any unavoidable cause this is not done, application will be made by the officer to the local authorities of his previous station for the allowances outstanding. AU claims preferred by officers or soldiers, who have left India, for allowances for periods of service m India, will be addressed to the local authorities in that country, as such claims will not be entertained by the India Office. In the case of soldiers the claims wiU be sent through their CO. 14. Local regulations for allowances will be pubHshed in each command abroad and no permanent alteration in the rates and scales laid down in these regulations involving increased cost to the public shall be made without the previous approval of the Army Council. On the 1st April in every third year three copies of the local regulations, revised up to the 31st March preceding, will be for- warded to the War Office. 15. Any temporary deviations from rates and scales which G.Os.C. at home or abroad are empowered by these regulations to authorize wiU in no case be continued for a longer period than six months without the authority of the Army Council. 16. The prices to be charged for all supplies issued on repayment— except as provided for in paras. 44 and 45, which apply to the army only—should cover the fuU cost of the articles, with the following additional charges for departmental expenses :— Home and Abroad. 2 J per cent, upon all supphes obtained under contract or purchased locally. 6 per cent, upon all supphes manufactured in army departments. Adjust- ment of over Usues. Abroad. To cover transport charges, a further 10 per cent, should be added to the cost of all supphes sent from home. 17. When rations overdrawn in error are adjusted by payment at contract rates departmental expenses wiU not be recovered.