(*) Articles thus indicated should be given into the custody of the Engineer and a receipt obtained therefor. This receipt must accompany the next return of property. 8. Miscellaneous. Such articles as awning frames, carpets and other floor coverings, door checks, curtains and shades, electric fans, flags, lockers (except portable), radiators, switchboards, towel holders, and ventilators will be accounted for by the Chief Clerk and Superintendent, who will take up on his return all such equipment. 9. Property clerk. The chief of each bureau or office shall designate a competent employee as property clerk, whose duty it will be to receive and issue all property, keep a suitable record of same, and prepare the returns for the signature of the accountable officer. EXCHANGE OF PROPERTY. SEC. 4. Property which the law permits to be exchanged in payment for new property, such as typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, may be transferred to stock and dropped from the return upon approval by the Chief Clerk of a requisition for the new property containing a request for the exchange. 1. Transfer to stock. Property which is still serviceable but of no further use to the accountable officer may be transferred to stock upon written request in duplicate addressed to and approved by the Chief Clerk, one copy of the approved request to be returned to the office making the same and the other copy to be forwarded to the Auditor of Property Returns. 2. Between bureaus or services.—When it is desired to transfer property from one office or bureau to another, written request in duplicate addressed to the Chief Clerk should be made, one copy of the approved request to be returned to the office making the same, the other copy to be forwarded to the Auditor of Property Returns. When it is desired to drop from the return property which has been transferred to a field office or station under existing law or regulation, written request in duplicate addressed to the Chief Clerk should be made, one copy of the approved request to be returned to the office making the same, the other copy to be forwarded to the Auditor of Property Returns. 3. Authority. No property shall be dropped from the returns required by these regulations without the specific authority of the Secretary, except in the manner herein prescribed. ARTICLE I.—FIRE. DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS. SECTION 1.-1. General requirements. (a) Approaches to fire escapes, elevators, and stairways must at all times be kept free and unobstructed. (b) Windows and flues in the vicinity of the fire shall be promptly closed. (c) When an alarm is sounded all persons detailed to the fire force will immediately assume stations to perform duties assigned. All other persons will immediately leave the building under the direction of the fire captains of the respective floors. (d) The person discovering a fire will immediately turn in an alarm at the nearest fire-alarm station, also advise the elevator conductors as to the location of the fire. (e) A fire-alarm station is located on each floor in the corridor north of the elevator shaft, except on the first floor, where it is at the rear of the elevator shaft. (f) To turn in an alarm, push the button the number of times (giving long rings) which corresponds to the floor, i. e., for the second floor twice, fourth floor four times, etc. (g) Upon hearing the alarm of fire, both elevator conductors shall immediately operate their cars. If the location of the fire will permit, the extinguisher men will be immediately taken to the scene of the fire by car No. 1. Car No. 2 shall proceed to the top of the building and carry as many persons as possible (women and aged men taking precedence), repeating this operation as long as the car can be operated or until no persons remain above the fire. Car No. 1 will do likewise after extinguisher men have been taken to the appropriate floor. (h) The engineer or his assistant and one laborer shall immediately hasten to the fire plug nearest the fire, take down the hose, and with the nozzle report at the fire ready for action. (i) The watchman on duty will turn in District fire alarm at Seventeenth and F Streets, when necessary. He should remain at the box to direct the fire department on its arrival. (j) The electrician will pull the main-line switch when the building is clear, and assist the fireman in securing the boilers, pulling the fires if necessary. (k) It will be the duty of the assistants and substitutes to act in place of the regular men when the latter are not on duty. 2. Duties of fire captains.—(a) Each fire captain will be in charge of his floor. (b) He will direct the operations of extinguisher men in putting out any fire which occurs on his floor, subject only to orders from the Chief Clerk and Superintendent or his assistant, until the arrival of the District fire department, which will immediately assume |