FOOTNOTES:
[1] Not including reserve.
[2] Includes reserve ammunition carried with battery, but not that in field-parks, arsenals, or ammunition-columns.
[3] In the model of 1885 it enters from the rear.
[4] The point at which the projectile has a remaining velocity of 500 ft.-sec., the minimum at which shrapnel is effective.
[5] These numbers correspond to a time of flight which is generally less than the tabulated time of flight by an amount required to cause the shrapnel to burst at a point within a distance of 75 yards short of the target.
[6] A corrugated sheet-metal prop will hereafter be attached to the neck-yoke stop. It will fold up under the pole, partly enveloping it, and be secured by a hook on the prop.
[7] Reduced when necessary by removing an ammunition-chest.
[8] On sights hereafter made this will be 1/1000 of the range.
[9] On the sights hereafter made the deflection divisions will correspond to 1/1000 of the range.
[10] Or 8 if upper braces are used.
[11] Berthelet says: "Thin disks of compressed guncotton may be pierced by a ball without explosion; but if thickness of disk be increased or resisting envelope used an explosion occurs."
[12] Also 2 copies to the designated paymaster.
[13] When Meat cannot be furnished.
[14] Each caisson is provided with spare-wheel axle, but only two spare wheels are supplied to a four-gun battery.
[15] When the necessity for their issue is certified to by the department commander.
[16] Accounted for on return.
[17] ½ increase if mean temperature for 20 days < 20° F.; and if temperature is not above 10° F. an increase of ½ is allowed for any latitude.
[18] Under act May 15, 1872.
[19] Act approved February 27, 1893, to take effect on and after 1st day of July 1893.
[20] Upon trial for desertion and conviction of absence without leave only the court may, in addition to the limit prescribed for such absence, award a stoppage of the amount paid for apprehension.
[21] Including first and excluding last.
[22] In specifications to charges of larceny or embezzlement the value of the property shall be stated.
[23] Each station should have its characteristic signal or call letter, as Washington, "W," and each operator his personal signal, as Jones, "Jo."
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Transcriber's Note:
1. The minutes of the angle for the RANGE TABLE FOR 3.6-INCH B. L. MORTAR. 16 ounces; Range 2900 is unclear.
2. Punctuation has been standardized.
3. Spelling has been corrected where necessary.
4. Under CHAPTER X, DEFINITIONS: INTERIOR BALLISTICS, Density of Loading, the word "cubic" has been added before the word "inches".
5. Morse code for & (in the original book) has been silently corrected. (Page 465).