79. They are 150, 200, 250, and 300, yards.

80. Two targets, having a bull's-eye eight inches, and a centre two feet, in diameter.

81. They are 400, 500, 550, and 600, yards.

82. Four targets, having a centre two feet in diameter. 83. They are 650, 700, 800, and 900, yards.

84. Six targets, having a centre three feet in diameter. 85. Five at each distance, and, consequently, twenty in a period.

86. Marching order. .

87. They fire standing in the first period, and kneeling in the other two.

88. "Preliminary ball practice," and the "first" and "second periods."

89. "First," "second," and "third," periods.

90. That they should have been exercised in all the subjects embraced under the head of "preliminary drill." 91. Yes.

92. No.

FIRING SINGLY.

1. They fire at 100, 150, 200, and 250, yards. 2. Two targets, having a bull's-eye eight inches, and a centre two feet, in diameter.

3. Five rounds from each distance, one of which is to be fired off a rest.

4. The third class.

5. The total points, obtained by each man, are entered in the proper column of the "Musketry Drill and Practice Return," from which a classification is made.

6. Fifteen.

7. They are formed into a third class.

8. He is to read out to the company, on parade, the names of the men, who have passed into the second class; also, the number of points they have each obtained.

9. Two; viz., second and third.

10. Twelve.

11. The points, obtained by each man, are to be entered in the columns "total points," from which, a second classification is made.

12. They remain in their respective classes.

13. Three; viz., first, second, and third.

14. The points, obtained by each man, are to be entered in the columns "total points," from which, a final classification is made.

15. A final classification return, in which the men are to be entered, in order as to merit.

16. Seven.

17. Aiming drill, at distances under 600 yards.

1. Ten.

FILE FIRING.

2. Three hundred yards.

3. Eight targets, placed together, having bull's-eyes eight inches, and centres two feet, in diameter, on each. 4. The same as in the practice of the third class. 5. Because 300 yards is a third class distance.

6. Ten.

7. The company instructor, and a non-commissioned officer of another company, are to mark off the hits in a diagram.

8 The company instructor, "marker," and the captain of the company.

1. Ten.

VOLLEY FIRING.

2. Four hundred.

3. The same as that for file firing.

4. As in the second class; bull's-eyes only being counted as centres.

5. Kneeling.

6. The hits are to be marked off in a diagram by the company instructor, and a non-commissioned officer of another company.

7. The company instructor, "marker," and the captain of the company.

SKIRMISHING.

1. Ten.

2. Advancing and retiring between 400 and 200 yards. 3. Eight.

4. At intervals of six paces.

5. The same as those detailed for the third class.

6. The same as in volley firing.

7. Yes.

8. They are to run up to their file leaders after returning their ramrods, and cap, after giving the word "ready."

9. A sentry.

10. The hits are to be marked off in a diagram, by the company instructor, and a non-commissioned officer of another company.

11. The company instructor, "marker," and the captain of the company.

12. They are to be handed over to the officer instructor, or battalion sergeant instructor.

13. So that he may enter them in the "Musketry Drill and Practice Return."

14. They are to be exercised, after the yearly course of practice is concluded, through a course of aiming and position drills, snapping caps, and blank firing; afterwards, they are to fire through the first period.

15. In a recruit's practice return, headed "third class shots at final classification."

16. By adding the average points obtained in the "first period," "skirmishing practice," and "file and volley firing," together.

17. Because, in this "period," all the men fire under the same circumstances.

18. One is absolutely necessary.

19. Yes; it is.

20. No.

THE STADIA.

1. An instrument called a stadia.

2. Barrack stores.

3. Two.

1. Fix a flag at the place where the party, about to judge distance, is to stand.

2. A non-commissioned officer is to fix the staff perpendicularly in the ground, at any distance that may be determined on by the instructor, and align the vertical pointer on the flag at the judging distance point.

3. Another flag is to be aligned, by means of the horizontal pointer, 40 yards to the left of the "staff," and fixed perpendicularly in the ground.

4. On the right.

5. The stadia is to be placed at the judging distance point, and the "shaft" aligned on the centre of the "staff," by means of the fixed fore-sight, and the movable slider.

6. By pushing the slider backwards and forwardstaking care not to move the shaft in doing so,—until the movable fore-sight, on the arm of the stadia, is aligned on the flag, that is fixed 40 yards to the left of the "staff.” 7. The one immediately behind.

8. So that it may be adjusted according to the scale to be used.

9. At the line, marked 1,000 yards.

10. At the line, marked 600 yards.

11. The large scale is to be used, when the distance