503.
Table of Allowances.
Subjoined is a list of articles which are indispensable for the service required, and must be kept in readiness at or near every mortar, in some secure position:
| Tube-boxes | 4 | |
| Straps for boxes | 4 | |
| Quill-tubes | 400 | |
| Friction-tubes | 600 | |
| Fuze-composition for priming | 12 | lbs. |
| Powder-bags | 250 | |
| Port-fires | 100 | |
| Port fire-sticks | 4 | |
| Rasps, half round | 4 | |
| Cotton wick | 4 | lbs. |
| Hand-hatchets | 2 | |
| Sheep-skins | 6 | |
| Diagonal scale | 1 | |
| Compasses | 2 | |
| Copper funnel, 13 in. | 1 | |
| Wood mallets | 2 | |
| Fuze-extractor | 1 | |
| Iron pincers | 2 | |
| Augurs | 2 | |
| Cutting-knives | 2 | |
| Scissors | 2 | |
| Thread | 1 | lb. |
| Brass quadrants | 1 | |
| Sponges with staves, 13 in. | 2 | |
| Handspikes | 6 | |
| Claw-hammers | 1 | |
| Lead plummets | 3 | |
| Tallow | 20 | lbs. |
| Shell-hooks, 13 in. | 2 | |
| Shell-hooks, with thimbles | 2 | |
| Cotton quick-match | 6 | |
| Punches for mortar-vents | 2 | |
| Corkscrews | 2 | |
| Blocks for driving fuzes | 2 | |
| Drifts of iron tapped with copper | 4 | |
| Copper ladles for fuzes | 2 | |
| Leather buckets | 3 | |
| Elm plugs | 60 | |
| Brass pickers | 2 | |
SPARE ARTICLES.
| Cap-squares | | |
| Eye-pins | | |
| Keys for pintles, large | 2 | |
| Keys for pintles, small | 2 | |
| Washers | 2 | |
| Bolts, traversing | 4 | |
| Bolts, dog | 4 | |
FOOTNOTES:
[41] If the Spirit-Level should be damaged, he will apply the Gunner's Quadrant to the face of the mortar.
[42] To lessen the shock of the discharge and the concussion on the ear, the crew should be instructed to stand on their toes at the moment of firing, keeping at the same time their mouths and ears open.