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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
APPENDICES. 
APPENDIX, No. I. 
[ 1 ] War Office, 
26th August, 1859. 
Sir, 
I am directed by Mr Secretary Herbert to transmit, for tlie information 
of tbe Ordnance Select Committee, a copy of a letter which has been ad¬ 
dressed to Mr Britten on the subject of experiments with his projectiles and 
system of rifling. I am also to enclose the programme referred to, which I 
am to request may be followed, should the Committee see no objection. 
I am Sir, &c.. 
The Secretary, (Signed) K. BACON. 
Ordnance Select Committee, 
Woolwich. 
[ 2 ] War Office, 
26th August, 1859. 
Sir, 
I am directed by Mr Secretary Herbert to acknowledge the receipt of 
your letter of the 16th instant, and in reply to request that you will forward 
to Shoeburyness the ten shells wdiich you have prepared for a preliminary 
trial, notifying to the Secretary to the Ordnance Select Committee at Wool¬ 
wich that you have done so, and requesting that a day may be named for the 
experiment. The programme you have prepared has been forwarded to the 
Committee, with directions to adhere to it, should they see no objection. 
I am further to state that Mr Herbert considers that fifty projectiles will 
be sufficient for the proposed competitive trials of different plans of rifling. 
I am therefore to request that you will proceed with their manufacture at a 
cost not exceeding £75 (seventy-five pounds), reporting to this office when 
they are ready for delivery. 
I am to take this opportunity of enclosing a copy of the Beport of practice 
made with twenty of your projectiles in May last, the request which was 
contained in a former letter from you was accidentally overlooked. 
I am, Sir, &c. 
Mr Bashley Britten, (Signed) J. K. GODLEY. 
Sydenham Hill, Kent, S. 
P.S. I am to request that you will furnish at once an estimate of the 
probable cost of rifling the 32-pr. service gun, which you have undertaken 
to prepare for the experiment alluded to. 
