THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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ON THE 
ARRANGEMENT OE EXPENSE MAGAZINES, SHELL ROOMS, SMALL STORES, 
AND SIDE-ARM SHEDS 
TOR 
BATTERIES OE HEAVY RIFLED GUNS.* 
[COMMUNICATED BY THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OE ORDNANCE.] 
Introductory Remarks by Major-General lefroy, R,A. 
The auxiliary batteries at Southsea Castle, Portsmouth, were so far com¬ 
pleted as to be in a fit state to be handed over to the Eoyal Artillery in 
July, 1868, and it was proposed by the Department of Works to take 
advantage of this opportunity to ascertain whether any improvement could 
be suggested, as regards the accommodation and arrangement for the reception 
of ammunition and stores, and for the supply of ammunition to the guns, the 
objects kept in view in the construction were in general accordance with the 
recommendations of a Committee assembled at the War Office in July, 1866, 
for the purpose of agreeing on some general rules to be observed in these 
important arrangements, and which reported as follows:— 
Proceedings of a Meeting assembled at 109 Victoria Street } on the 
30 th July , 1866. 
PRESENT. 
Major-General St Georg-e, C.B., R.A; 
Major-General A. G. Taylor, R.A. 
Brig.-General Leeroy, R.A. 
Colonel Gambier, C.B., R.A. 
Lieut.-Col. Jervois, C.B., R.E. 
“Major-General Taylor read some remarks he had drawn up as Inspector- 
General of Artillery, the result of his observations in making his inspections. 
These are appended to the proceedings. 
“ The meeting considered the general principles to be adopted in the future 
construction of forts and coast batteries, and decided on the following :— 
1. “ The Southsea auxiliary defences, as lately constructed, with respect to 
the arrangements of the magazines, expense magazines, shell rooms, &c., as 
* See Vol. II. p. 279, for a previous papct oil this subjects 
