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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    Units of U.A., &c. A.O. 132 1913 Special Re- serve and Territorial Force. Banlcing arrange- ments. Banlting accounts; general rules. Cash boolc and ledger. Cash -pay- ments to soldier. Increase in rate ot pay. Detach- ments. 302. Officers commanding units of Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Armv Service Corps, Army Ordnance Corps, and Royal Army Medical Corps will obtain funds weekly by direct indent (A.F. N 1487) upon the cashier of the command in which their unit is quartered. 303. In the case of units of the Special Rese)-ve or the Terri- torial Force, sub-accountants will obtain funds in the manner laid down in the Special Reserve or the Territorial Force Regulations. 304. Officers acting as sub-accountants may open banking accounts at any authorized bank, if such a course is desirable and convenient for the purpose for which they receive advances of public money. Except where an imprest is issued as an advance to meet purelv personal expenditure, ])ublic money will not be paid into the private banking account of an officer. Any necessary information as to authorized banks is obtainable from the command or regimental paymaster, and will be treated as strictly confidential. Forms of cheque will be obtained from the bank with the words On His Majesty's Service conspicuously printed thereon and will not bear a stamp. 305. The banking accounts, &c., of officers acting as sub- accountants are subject generally to the conditions and rules in Section I governing the banking accounts, &c., of cashiers. 2. PAYMENT OF BEGTJLAE, TROOPS. 306. A company, &c., commander of regular troops will keep an account of his casti receipts and expenditure, together with the regimental stoppage account, in the cash book and ledger (Army Book 69). , • • 1 , 307. The duty of making cash payments to the individual soldier will devolve upon the company, &c., commander to which the soldier belongs, or is attached for pay. All such paymeuts will be recorded in the pay and mess book (A.F. N 1504a) by the company, &c., commander. 308. No cash payment will be made in respect of any increase m a soldier's rate ot pay until such increase has been duly notified to the regimental paymaster and the amount placed to the credit of the man's account in the pay list. 309. Cash payments to detachments not attached for pay to other units will be made on the detachment pay sheet (A.F. I N 1510). At the end of each account period the total pay issuec to each soldier on detachment will be carried into the pay and mess book as a casual payment, and the detachment pay sheet wd be annexed to the pay and mess book in support of the entry. 310. Pay due to soldiers on furlough, &c., will be remitted by means of money order and not by cheque. 311 On the last pay day in March of each year, the approxi- mate balance of pay, &c., then due to the soldier will be paid t him, whei'e this course is practicable.