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corps should be arranged so as to allow of the Fire Commander of 
each of the more important groups of forts exercising his Command 
annually. 
That it would be sufficient in the case of the other: Batteries and 
“Fire Commands” if they were manned every second or third year. 
That the whole of the Artillery of the fortress should be mobilized 
periodically at such intervals as may be found practicable. 
(2) That in the allotment of garrisons to Batteries the Corps 
stationed nearest to the fortress, and therefore having the greater 
facilities for drill, should as a rule be those to man the more important 
guns. 
(3) That quick-firing guns are specially suitable for Volunteers. 
(4) That, to avoid mixing units, a corps should furnish its own 
reliefs, and that this should be borne in mind when computing the 
number of guns that it is capable of manning. 
(5) That a Corps manning a work must also be prepared to provide 
reliefs for the specialists. 
(6) That the aim of the instruction should be to qualify a Corps to 
man its Batteries independently in every detail; but that this principle 
should not be carried so far in practice as to trust inexperienced men 
uncontrolled in positions of responsibility. 
(7) That in training a Corps new to Coast Defence work the 
Regulars should afford it every assistance, but that it should gradually 
be placed in a position to carry out its own training. That the 
drawing up of the programme of work however should remain in the 
hands of the Regular Artillery, who would also take up the instruction 
again in case of any changes in drill or in the armament, and would 
always continue to exercise a strict supervision over the work. 
