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well as all the stages of manufacture (phrases de travail ) through which a gun 
passes until it is passed into the service. 
In the second place, in order to make these dispositions agree with those 
inserted in the decree of May 1857, concerning the organization and the 
service of the establishments of the marine outside the dockyards, I would 
recommend to your Majesty to modify Article 28 of the decree of the 
2nd of May, 1857, which gave to the inspector-general the right of giving 
direct instructions to the foundries, which right by the new regulation has 
been reserved exclusively to the minister. 
(Signed) 
HAMELIN, 
Ministre Secretaire d’Mat de la Marine . 
Decree of the 2th February , 1859. 
Napoleon, &c., have decreed,— 
Section I .—Flans and tracings. Mode of manufacture. 
Art. 1. Guns will be manufactured in conformity with the tables and 
tracings which have been approved by the minister of marine. It is 
expressly forbidden to communicate these without orders from him. 
Art. 2. The guns will be cast from a second fusion. 
Art. 3. They will still be cast solid, and without any sort of core. 
Art. 4. They will be cast in sand moulds, which have been properly dried 
in the stove. 
Art. 5. The proportions of the models should be such that, notwith¬ 
standing the contraction of the metal, the guns should have the dimensions 
prescribed by the tables. No exception is to be made, except in case of parts 
which are afterwards fitted. 
Art. 6. No sealed pattern of a gun can be admitted for the service until 
the proces-verhal of its examination and verification has been approved by 
the minister. 
The sealed patterns (modeles definitifs) will be made in cast-iron. The 
pieces which composed the parts in relief, such as cascable loops, trunnions 
and shoulders of trunnions, &c. will be in cast-iron, in bronze, or in wrought- 
iron. 
The weight of the dead-head from the muzzle will be between one-third 
and one-fourth of the finished piece, except in the case of mortars. Every 
establishment on receiving an order for a new gun will send a tracing of the 
dead-head to the minister. 
Art. 7. The mould-boxes will be cast-iron. They will be moulded with 
the greatest care, so that the fitting may be easy and that the different parts 
may have no play among themselves. 
Art. 8. When provisional models are employed they will be made under 
instructions given by the minister. 
