Write on one side of the paper only. Duplicate copy of reprint must be furnished when possible if both sides are to be used.

Authors and departments are requested to send to this office the first sheets of copy, not the carbon copies, for the first sheets are much plainer than the carbons. This is especially requested for copy in foreign languages and copy containing figures.

Proper names, foreign words, and technical terms should be written plainly and verified. Illegible signatures and figures should be rewritten. Corrections of figures should not be written over the originals. Manuscript and typewritten copy in a foreign language should be marked accurately to show capitalization, punctuation, accents, etc. Abbreviations should not be used unless they are to be printed as written, in which case they should be marked "follow."

Answer all queries on proof, as delay and errors often result from neglecting them.

All tabulated statements should be written on separate sheets; that is, end the preceding paragraph of text on one sheet, place the table on the next, and commence the next paragraph on the following sheet. Reference marks in text and tables should be arranged consecutively across each page.

Photographs, drawings, etc., for illustrations should accompany manuscript, each bearing the name of the publication in which it is to be inserted and the figure number or plate number. The proper place for each illustration should be indicated on the copy by title, legend, or otherwise.

If a publication is composed of several parts, a scheme of the desired arrangement should accompany the first installment of copy.

All corrections should be made on first proofs submitted, later proofs being intended for the purpose of verification only. Plate corrections will be made only when absolutely necessary.

Requisitions for work containing illustrations should give explicit instructions as to whether or not illustrations are to be furnished by the Government Printing Office, giving the number and indicating the process of reproduction. Instructions should be given on the margin of each illustration if reduction is necessary.

A publication containing illustrations should be accompanied by a letter certifying that the illustrations are necessary and relate entirely to the transaction of public business. (See 33 Stat. L. 1213.) Samples are desirable and should be furnished if possible. They should be plainly marked, showing clearly whether intended for style of type, size of type page, paper, trim, lettering, or binding.

It is imperative that corrections should be marked on the margins of a proof sheet opposite the indicated errors. Do not attempt to

make a correction by writing over the print or between the lines. Errors marked in this way are in danger of being overlooked and are generally illegible.

Proofs read by authors or department readers should be marked to conform to the following style:

s.C. It does not appear that the earliest printers had e 11 any method of correcting errors before the form was on the press/ The learned The learned correctors of the first two centuries of printing were not proofreaders in our sense/they were rather what we should erm office editors. Their labors were chiefly to see that the proof corresponded to the copy, but that the printed page was correct in its latinity/that

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were there, and stet. that the sense was right. They cared a little about orthography, bad letters or purely printer t errore, and when the text seemed to them wrong they consulted fresh authorities or altered it on their own responsibility. Good proofs in the not# modern sense, were e possible until professional readers were employed/ men who had first] a printer's education, and then spent many years in the correction of proof. The orthography of English, which for the past century has under gone little change, was very fluctuating until after the publication of Johnson's Dictionary, and capitals, which have been used with considerable reg lead, spell ularity for the past 60 years, were previously used on the [miss for hit) plan. The approach to regularity, so far as we have may be attributed to the growth of a class of professional proof readers, and it is to them that we owe the correctness of mod

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ern printing. More er/ors have been found in the
Bible than in any other one work. For many gen lead.
erations it was frequently the case that Bibles
were brought out stealthily, from fear of govern-
[mental interference. They were frequently Out, see
printed from imperfect texts, and were often mod-
ified to meet the views of those who publised
them.The story is related that a certain woman
in Germany, who was the wife of a printer, and
had become disgusted with the continual asser-
tion of the superiority of man over woman which
she had heard, hurried into the composing room
while her husband was at supper and altered a
sentence in the Bible, which, he was printing, so
that it read Narr instead of Herr, thus making
the verse
read
"And he shall be thy fool" instead

of "And he shall be thy Xord." The word not

was omitted by Barker, the King's printer in En

Bland in 1632, in printing the seventh commandment

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13. References:

CEMETERIAL

Post cemeteries.-AR 210-500.

National cemeteries.-AR 30-1840.

Disinterment of remains.-AR 30-1825.

Reports of burials.-AR 30-1815.

Burial expenses.-AR 5-280.

Preparation and disposition of remains.-AR 30-1820; AR 40-590. Burials on field of battle.-AR 30-1810.

Graves registration service; operations.-AR 30-1805.

PROCUREMENT AND DISTRIBUTION

14. References:

General duties of the Assistant Secretary of War in connection with procurement.-AR 5-5.

Procurement of supplies.

General provisions.-AR 5-100.

Open-market purchases.-AR 5–240.

Periodicals and certain books.-AR 5–260.

Burial expenses.-AR 5-280.

Interbranch procurement.-AR 5-300.

Interdepartmental procurements.-AR 5-320.

Foreign purchases.-AR 5-340.

Procurement of supplies, services, and rentals by organizations away from home stations.-AR 35-6300.

Remount purchasing headquarters.-AR 30-430.

Procurement of horses and mules.-AR 30-435.

Procurement of typewriters and similar office labor-saving devices.---AR 30-2720.

Purchase of filing equipment for use in the District of Columbia without the personal approval of the Assistant Secretary of War forbidden.Cir. 1-4, OQMG, 1928.

Purchase and inspection of electric lamps.-Cir. 1-4, OQMG, 1928. Purchase and distribution.-Cir. 1-4, OQMG, 1928.

Classification of supplies for procurement.

Policies governing the purchase and distribution of supplies.
Control of purchases.

Restricted purchase and distribution.

Centralized purchase and distribution by special supply points.
Regional purchase and distribution.

Other purchasing depots.

Local purchase.

Manufacturing depots.

Procurement of supplies from other Government departments. Groups of supplies for procurement.-Federal Standard Stock Catalogue.

Inspection and delivery.-Cir. 1-4, OQMG, 1928.

Responsibility.

Inspection.

Packing.

Shipments.

Receiving reports.

Unpaid bills and claims.

Claims against contractors.

Claims against the United States.-AR 35-7020.

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