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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
Art. 66. After the two rounds have been fired, as prescribed in Art. 64, 
the gun will be cleaned and searched to find out the effect of the proof. 
The result of this examination will be noted down in the proces-verbal of the 
proof. 
Art. 67. All the operations, inspections, and proofs prescribed in the 
present section shall take place in the presence of a committee, presided over 
by the director of the foundry, and composed of all the officers of artillery 
employed in the establishment together with the chef-ouvrier d’etat. The 
civil officer agent administratif will be warned and may attend and take part 
when he thinks fit. 
Art. 68. All operations, examinations and proofs prescribed under the 
present head, will be recorded in a separate proces-verbal for each sort of gun 
of the same calibre. This proces-verbal will comprise not only the pieces 
which have been proved and passed, but those also which have been rejected, 
from whatever motive; or those which, being in the case specified by 
Art. 83, have not yet been classed by the minister, so that the series of the 
numbers may not be interrupted. 
Art. 69. The director will address to the minister a precis of all the 
proces-verbaux. He will send the guns away only when he hears from the 
minister that the proces-verbaux have been approved, and the guns may be 
dispatched. He will send with the guns to the prefect maritime of the port 
a copy of the proces-verbaux. 
Art. 70. If a gun burst in the ordinary proof, the director will report 
immediately to the minister, and give an account of the causes of the 
accident. 
Section YII.— On the extraordinary proof and the proof of continuous 
firing . 
Art. 71. Extraordinary proofs will be made,— 
(1) On passing metal. 
(2) On proving the mixtures of current manufacture. 
(3) "When a gun has burst with the ordinary proof. 
(4) When a new nature of gun is to be introduced into the naval service. 
(5) Each year, on one or more guns out of the number ordered, accord¬ 
ing to the number. 
Whatever may be the end proposed in making this proof, it must never be 
made except under orders of the minister, except in the cases anticipated 
in Articles 20, 22, and 25. Every piece submitted to this proof should have 
undergone the ordinary proof. 
Art. 72. Guns will be proved partly with spherical shot, partly with 
cylinders, and a series of increasing charges, as pointed out in the schedule 
of proofs aunexed to the present decree. A wad of hay will be put on the 
cartridge, and one on the last projectile: two blows will be struck home on 
the wad. The number of rounds that guns should bear before being passed 
will be hereafter fixed, and after the results of the first extraordinary proofs. 
