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(d.) Officers Commanding Batteries will collect and collaborate 
all the reports and sketches received from the Section 
Commanders in the field, and these, together with their 
own remarks, will represent the work of the Battery for 
the day. 
(e.) Where two or more Batteries are stationed together, the 
scheme will be carried out by the Brigade Division, under 
its Commanding Officer, who will collect and collaborate 
the sketches and reports of the Batteries under their 
command, and forward the whole, with their own remarks, 
to the General Officer Commanding the District. 
Each Battery should be required to report upon an area 
not less than 50 square miles. 
(/.) All sketches should be executed on the same scale—say, 
2" to 1 mile, which is a convenient scale for a Cavalry 
sketching case. 
(g.) The use of small scale maps of the country, or handker- 
chief manoeuvre maps, is permitted, whenever these are 
available. 
(h.) The “ General 99 and “ Special ” ideas for these reconnaiss¬ 
ances should be drawn up under the orders of the General 
Officer Commanding the District, and only issued the 
night before. 
('i.) All work should be done in the field, and the time carefully 
noted and certified to by the Battery Commander. 
(k.) Battery signallers and range-takers may, of course, be 
utilized. 
2. The attention of Boyal Artillery Officers is invited to Cavalry 
Drill, 1898, Part IV., Sectiou 3, Section 4, Section 5, Section 6, and 
Section 7—also Part V., Section 8. 
3. The sketches, reports, &c., together with the remarks by 
General Officers Commanding on the work done, should be furnished 
to Command Head-Quarters, where the relative merits of the work 
done by the Batteries in the Command will be compared. 
