The artillery officers of the third cœtus take these exercises in hand on two afternoons, under care of the artillery teacher in the same cœtus.
The purport of it is not so much a thorough instruction in this manufacture, as a completion of the theoretical lectures on the mode of conducting the processes by means of personal inspection and handling of the instruments. The teacher will pay particular attention to the errors that may occur in the measurements, &c.
E. Examination of Cannon.
This exercise is to be undertaken by the artillery officers of the third cœtus, under the inspection of their artillery teacher, in six afternoons. The object of it is exactly the same as of the foregoing.
The exercise must commence with directions for proving the instruments, when the teacher will show the mode of their manipulation.
As the use of such instruments only can be reckoned on as the school, the depôt, and the artillery proof department possess, only three sections of the students can work each day simultaneously; the section consisting, at the utmost, of six persons, if individual handling of them is presumed necessary.
The teacher must, therefore, divide the students into sub-sections, and make such arrangement that each student, if possible, personally work every part of the exercise, or at least have a perfect sight of it.
That portion of the students which can not be immediately occupied on each exercise day, put their tables of dimensions in the order and forms required by the regulations.
F. Examination of the Gun-Carriages and Wagons.
The exercise is to be conducted by the artillery officers of the third cœtus, exactly as the foregoing, in five afternoons.