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8. Tools and Instruments. —This department might be in charge of a 
man whose turn of mind was mechanical. It would contain all tools 
not kept with special equipments. It would sometimes be found advan¬ 
tageous to add this charge to, 
9. Engineer Store, including engineer equipments, such as pontoons, 
&c., not common to the other branches of the service. The Storeholder 
should be selected from the R.E. 
10. Magazines. —The magazines, although forming an integral part 
of the administration of an arsenal, would be placed in positions of safety, 
consistent with facility of supply. The chief points to be attended to 
are :— 
(1) Precautions for safety. 
(2) Freedom from damp. 
(3) Yentilation. 
The regulations for the safety of magazines do not need repetition 
here, as every officer is expected to know them as contained in the 
Queen's Regulations. 
The separation of combustible stores is an important point— i.e., the 
division of powder, which should be kept by itself, from other stores; 
tubes, fuzes, cartridges (empty and filled), &c., being kept in a separate 
magazine. In all magazines very clear arrangement is necessary, and 
a list of the stores contained, should always be placed on the exterior 
door, the quantities being inserted in a column which may be renewed 
from time to time by pasting over strips of paper. All cases and barrels 
should be legibly labelled. 
In the present day, a very strong construction of magazine is 
required. 
Projectiles— i.e., shot and empty shell—have been allotted to No. 5, 
the Ordnance or Park Department, because it is deemed better to keep 
these heavy articles near the Issue Department, and divided from the 
combustible part of ammunition, which must be stored in a place of 
safety. 
11. Raw Material Store .—For materials such as iron, copper, brass, 
fcinc, rope, oils, paints, paper, cloths, canvas, &c., &c.— i.e., all those 
materials that are kept in stock to work up for use* 
12. Timber Yard. —Under this head are embraced the duties of 
receiving, examining, and stacking timber. The examination prior to 
receipt from a contractor would be most properly performed by an 
officer of the Carriage Department. In a second-class arsenal this duty 
Would be performed by one of the officers of the arsenal, assisted if 
necessary. 
13. Breaking-up Store.-• —Must be located in a safe place, and superin¬ 
tended by a careful man, so that the destruction of damaged or obsolete 
combustible stores may be attended with as little risk as possible. 
11. Unserviceable Store .—Requires no special knowledge, and would 
hold stores condemned for sale or conversion. 
