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The route will be chosen so as to offer the greatest difficulties and the 
greatest varieties of road. 
Art. 6. —Tour days afterwards the battery will execute another march 
with siege equipment. 
In order that these two series of trials should be thoroughly comparative, 
it will be necessary that the first itinerary should be as far as possible followed 
in the second march. 
The equipment for this trial for each half-battery will be as follows, viz.:— 
24-pr. on carriage, travelling position... 1-—8 horses. 
16-pr. on carriage, travelling position... 1—8 „ 
24-pr. on carriage, spare.1—4 „ 
12-pr. on carriage, boxes packed .1—6 „ 
Carriage pattern, 1833, empty .1—2 „ 
Wagon, siege, empty .1—2 « 
Total 6—30 
Each demi-battery will take with it besides two spare teams. 
The march will be made at the walk. During the march, the harness of 
both systems will be placed in the stables at the halting places, as is the 
ordinary custom. Under all other circumstances they will remain in the 
open air as at the bivouac. 
Aft. 7. —The comparative value of the two systems will be studied 
under all circumstances of marching and manoeuvring: it will be observed 
how they act, during heavy exertions on the part of the horses, and when¬ 
ever it is necessary to increase the number of horses in draught. 
Account is to be kept up of galls and sores incurred by use of either 
system, and of the facility of effecting cures on the march. 
Particular attention is to be directed regarding the ordinary preservation 
of the harness in both systems, and on the nature, the facility, and the 
cost of repairs. 
The Commission will study the effect of the two systems as to the 
wear and tear of the horses, and it will particularly observe the action of 
the neck stall in descents and deep ground. 
Extract of Minute of the Committee of Artillery on the comparative ex¬ 
periments made in different Corps of the Artillery with the Harness with 
the Bricole, and the Service Harness with the Collar, 
Seance of tlie 23rd July, 185S. 
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Each of the regiments belonging to the schools before named was ordered 
to make up a battery of manoeuvre composed half of teams with breast 
harness, half of teams with the collar. It was recommended that each of 
