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supplied with, all kinds of small-arms, including rifles, carbines, pistols, 
swords, bayonets, lances ; all the implements used in connection with 
these arms, and the necessary cartridges for the rifles, carbines, and 
pistols. It must be supplied with entrenching tools, and, indeed, tools 
of every description; all kinds of engineer requirements, including 
pontoons, military railway construction materials, telegraph materials, 
&c. An army requires harness and saddlery, and all sorts of accoutre¬ 
ments, and in our service a vast quantity of camp equipment. Lastly, 
it requires such tools and materials as will enable its artificers to keep 
everything in repair. 
In this imperfect summary of the requirements of an army, I have 
necessarily excluded those necessities which rather come under the 
head of clothing and munitions de louche . 
These requirements of an army, therefore, demand the following 
establishments in a first-class arsenal of construction and store, in 
addition to great storehouses :— 
1. Gun Factories. 
2. Carriage Department. 
3. Laboratory. 
4. Small-arms Factory. 
5. Harness, Saddlery, and Tent Factories. 
6. Powder Factory. (This latter, however, being removed from the 
arsenal itself, but connected with it in the matter of administration.) 
Second-Class Arsenal. 
In an arsenal of the second class, the great manufacturing establish¬ 
ments of the first-class arsenal are compressed into workshops for 
partial construction and for repair, the store department being of equal 
magnitude and importance with that of the first-class arsenal. Pro¬ 
vision must, however, be made for manufacture, to a limited degree, 
so that by the judicious position and arrangement of our arsenal, we 
may be prepared to utilise the manufacturing resources of the district 
in time of pressure or danger. 
With the construction of guns, and the various elaborate processes 
to which the metal is subjected before being placed in the hands of the 
artilleryman, a second class arsenal is hardly concerned, although its 
workshops must ,be adapted to perform certain minor operations con¬ 
nected with ordnance. 
While it would be necessary to provide for the chief kinds of ammu¬ 
nition used for field purposes, it would not be possible to have such an 
establishment as would suffice to manufacture the numerous varieties 
of ammunition required for siege and naval purposes. 
Again, while the second-class arsenal in peace time would be unable 
to turn out large batches of carriages, it should be able to make and 
repair gun-carriages and other carriages used in the field, and form 
the nucleus of a larger establishment for this purpose. In addition, 
the second-class arsenal should possess workshops for the repair of 
small-arms, and for the manufacture on a limited scale of harness, 
saddlery, and accoutrements, 
