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going discussion, and are here inserted as a help to the consideration of this 
subject by officers who may be called on to report upon it hereafter:— 
(1) Magazines. —Is the communication between the guns and the expense 
magazines sufficiently direct and as well covered as circumstances permit ? 
(2) Are the expense magazines in the best situations in point of security, and 
convenient in point of access ? 
(3) Are the main magazines in the best situation in point of security, and con¬ 
venient in point of access ? Is the store of powder sufficiently divided to render 
all risks as small as is practicable ? 
(4) Are the doors or openings in the best direction, in reference to security under 
fire? 
(5) Are the shell rooms and shell recesses sufficiently numerous, convenient of 
access, and convenient for the supply of loaded shells with rapidity ? 
(6) Number of Artillery Store Rooms. —Are they adequate in point of accommo¬ 
dation and size; sufficiently numerous; conveniently placed ? 
(7) Traversing Platforms .— Are the racers firmly laid and true in gauge ? Do 
the guns traverse with the proper degree of facility ? 
(8) Are the ground 'platforms in good repair, the proper slope, and of sufficient 
size for the guns now mounted upon them ? 
(9) Are traverses sufficiently numerous, and do they give as much protection as 
the circumstances of the work admit of ? 
(10) Splinter-proof Cover. —Is there any protection provided against splinters of 
shells ? Is there in your opinion room for its extension or improvement ? 
(11) Cover generally. —Are the parapets of the batteries high enough and solid 
enough to give a serviceable degree of protection ? 
(12) Aids to accuracy. —Are the heights of each battery, and the distances of 
conspicuous permanent objects within cannon shot of it, perfectly ascertained and 
permanently recorded at the battery P 
The Committee above referred to having agreed on general principles, the 
subjoined memorandum was drawn up by the Deputy Director of Works, and 
embodies the instructions under which the officers of that Department 
acted in completing the works at Southsea Castle :— 
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1. “The amount of cartridges and loaded shells that it is proposed 
to provide accommodation for in batteries is 100 rounds* (100 per gun). 
* This number was fixed at a time when it was considered that shells would be used on all occa¬ 
sions. As now laid down in Circular on Ammunition and Stores—Garrison Service, the proportion 
of shells will be 65. The rest of the 100 are solid shot. Of these, some will be stored near to the 
gun, and the rest piled in a convenient place, 
