APPENDIX.

1. On the 1st April.

2. On the 1st October, or at the beginning of the cold

season.

3. He is to hand over to the Instructor the full noncommissioned officers, by one-fourth at a time.

4. No; they are to be struck off all duty.

5. One-eighth.

6. No.

7. Four.

8. No; they are not.

9. They are to assist in the instruction of their respective companies.

10. Four days.

11. Two of each.

12. Half-an-hour.

13. Four.

14. The first distance is 150 yards, and the last 900 yards.

15. Up to 300 yards.

16. Up to 600 yards.

17. An hour and a half.

18. They are to be practising Position Drill, with the sight for the actual distance.

19. Target, and judging distance, practice.

20. Two days after the first one proceeds to target practice.

21. Eleven.

22. Two companies, with their officers and non-commissioned officers, are again to be struck off duty, and exercised

in the file and volley firing on one day, and the skirmishing

practice on another.

23. Ten.

24. In about twelve weeks.

25. No; only one at a time.

26. Two at preliminary drills, and two at practice. 27. Two companies are to be engaged at preliminary drills, and afterwards exercised to the end of the third period, when they are to return to duty; two more companies are to replace them, and so continue until the whole battalion is similarly exercised; after which, the file and volley firing, and skirmishing practices, are to be executed, two companies, at a time, being engaged in them.

28. Only one.

29. They are to be relieved for the purpose of instruction, by companies that have already gone through the year's practice.

30. The officer instructor is to be sent to instruct them. 31. Yes.

32. They are to be exercised with the furnished for instruction.

company next

33. They are to be recorded in separate registers.

34. If there be more than five men, they are to be exercised in the preliminary drills, and practised to the end of the third period, in a squad by themselves.

35. They are returned as "non-exercised," but join the succeeding year's course.

36. They are to be exercised, either with the next company engaged in these practices, or in a squad by themselves, should every company of the battalion have concluded.

37. No; in separate diagrams.

38. The "average points" obtained by the squad in each practice.

39. In order that the "points," which they obtain, may be secured for the company to which they belong. 40. No; one diagram will do for the squad.

41. No.

42. Yes; they may.

43. In the winter months; in tropical climates, early in the morning, and late in the afternoon, during the hot

season.

44. Yes.

45. No; they are to be exercised whenever not on duty.

46. In a company's practice return headed, "Casuals after the termination of the annual course."

47. Yes; excepting that the instruction is to be conducted by half-troops; two being engaged at drill, and two at practice.

48. Yes.

49. Two half-batteries; and the course ought to be completed in nine working days.

50. Fifteen working days.

51. It is never to exceed 240, nor ever to be under 20. 52. One company.

53. By the non-commissioned officers, under the superintendence of the officers of the companies, if an instructor is not available.

54. Not more than one-half, and not less than onefourth.

55. For about three weeks.

56. On each day, two position drills, one lesson in cleaning arms, and one lesson in theoretical principles, are to be executed; on the first day, the sights are explained, and aiming drill carried on at 100 and 150 yards; on the five following days respectively, three distances are aimed at; for the four first days, judging distance drill is carried on up to 300 yards, and on the remaining four days up to 600 yards; on the seventh and eighth days respectively, 10 caps are snapped, and 10 rounds blank cartridge are fired; on these two days, there is also a lesson on the manufacture of cartridges.

57. Eight working days.

58. All the motions of loading, standing and kneeling. 59. One party is to be at preliminary drills, and another at practice, at the same time.

60. When they exceed sixty, the squad is to consist of not less than twenty, and, when under that number, ten. 61. A course of musketry training.

62. The "Annual Musketry Practice Return," completed to the date on which the instruction ceased.

63. Yes.

64. Lecture room models, &c., as a means of profitable occupation on the voyage.

65. Yes; to catechise the officers of companies, and ascertain whether they are acquainted with the theory and practice of musketry.

66. The circumstance, and the cause of it, are to be reported to the Adjutant-General.

67. Correct duty-states, specifying the posts of sentries and the numbers furnished for guard, are to accompany the report.

68. The Inspector-General of Musketry.

3. It is the same, with such modification, of course,

as the different nature of the duties of the two services requires.

4. No; if it can, by any means, be avoided.

5. From 2 P.M. until it is time to prepare for evening stables.

10. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, periods of target practice, and of judging distance practice; and skirmishing from 400 to 200 yards.

11. Preliminary drills, four days; practices, seven days. 12. At the same time as the musketry instruction of the Infantry.