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OFFICE WORK OF A GARRISON BATTERY. 
inspection of recruits' sets should be made from time to time, to see that 
no damage is done to the arms or accoutrements, see G.O. 50 of 1880. 
188. Once a week, at kitt inspection, the arms and accoutrements 
ought to be examined, as well as at the monthly inspection on muster 
day. A special examination ought also to be made after any move, 
whether of the whole battery or of any detachment, more particularly 
after any voyage, however short. See Ordnance Stores Department 
Regulations, para. 471. Before leaving any station care should be taken 
to see that there has been no accidental interchange of articles with 
other batteries. See also para. 198 of these notes. 
189. Once a quarter the arms should, whenever practicable, be 
passed through the hands of an armourer, who is allowed for the purpose 
one-sixteenth of a pint of oil for every 18 stand of arms, taken from 
the annual allowance of oil. The knowledge that a frequent examina¬ 
tion will be made stops much carelessness. See Eq. page 99, as altered 
by Errata on Equipment issued with clause 131 of A.C. of June 1879, 
page 9. 
190. Once a year all the articles of equipment, arms, musical instru¬ 
ments, accoutrements, &c., especially frogs and havresacks, are carefully 
inspected: a few sets being called into store at a time, or only brought 
up by the men, as convenient. All the marks on each article are 
compared with the description in the register of arms; and those that 
are getting too faint are re-marked. An annual allowance of one pint 
of oil for every 18 stand of arms, and of two and a-half ounces of old 
sheeting for each carbine, is authorized by Eq. page 99, drawn on the 
1st March on W.O. Form 1456. 
Repairs. 
191. The leather work of the accoutrements is repaired by the 
battery shoemaker, or special tradesman, from time to time, under Eq. / 
para. 330. Three shillings per quarter is drawn on W.O. Form 1090, 
for valise equipment, for this work. Small losses and damages are 
not made good at the time (Eq. para. 32) by special demands; but a 
general requisition is, if necessary, sent in on the 1st of March, June, 
September, and December: on W.O. Form 1456 for articles of equip¬ 
ment, 1457 for articles for repairs. (Eq. paras. 29 and 31.) The battery 
draws annually on 1st March (Eq. 29), on W.O. Form 1456 in dupli¬ 
cate, the yearly allowance of oil and old sheeting (Eq. page 99), and on 
W.O. Form 455, certain articles (Eq. page 100) for the repair and 
completion of the accoutrements. These articles, when received, are 
regularly brought on charge in the ledger; and then shown as expended, 
as far as they are really used, the issue being vouched for as at 
page 174 Eq. : see Eq. page 150, para. 5. Articles not named at 
page 100 Eq. are demanded when necessary on W.O. Form 1456. 
For repairs to arms, see Eq. paras. 323 to 329; accoutrements, Eq. 
