B.L. and quick-firing guns, and carriages; knowledge of
sights, and the method of using them; description, weights,
and marking of filled cartridges; description, weights, and
marking of projectiles, and the circumstances under which
the different natures would be used; description of ammunition
for quick-firing guns; knowledge of the cases, cylinders
and boxes in which filled cartridges for R.M.L. and B.L. guns,
and ammunition for quick-firing guns, are stored, and the
means of opening and closing them; storage of shell and cartridge
stores in forts, and the means of supplying ammunition
to guns; general description of fuses in use with the R.M.L.
and B.L. guns, and how to fit them; description of tubes
for use with R.M.L. and B.L. guns; knowledge of fuse and
shell implements, and how to use them; method of filling
cartridges and shells. Theoretical: Definition of the principal
gunnery terms, as laid down in the "Manual of Garrison
Artillery.''

Section II (Gun-laying) — Badges and certificates for gun-laying
will only be issued to such members as hold certificates for
gunnery for current year. The test shall be that laid down
from time to time in “Instructions for Practice.”

Section III (Range-finding). — Badges and certificates will only
be issued to members who have once qualified in gunnery:
provided that no member shall receive a personal payment
for efficiency in range-finding in addition to a personal payment
in any other section. The subjects for examination for
men qualifying for D.R.F. certificates are: Setting up instrument
accurately; the four tests for adjustment; finding
correct height, with and without datum points; orienting;
electric lamp and electric batteries in use; duties of a
depression range-finder detachment; accuracy in finding
ranges at a moving and stationary target; general care of
D.R.F. instruments, and electrical dials.

Section IV (Signalling). — Badges and certificates will only be
issued to members who have once qualified in gunnery:
provided that no member shall receive a personal payment
for efficiency in signalling in addition to a personal payment
in any other section. The subjects for examination in signalling
are as laid down for all arms, in addition to which
garrison artillery must pass in telephone operating.

Submarine Mining Engineer Volunteers.

415. Members who qualify in the undermentioned sections, and
     pass an examination in them, shall receive a certificate of
     qualification, carrying with it a personal payment of £1 each per
     annum, and be permitted to wear a badge; and the four most
     proficient men in each section will be granted an extra personal
     payment of £1 each, provided that no one member can receive a
     personal payment for proficiency in more than one section during a
     year. The subjects of examination for men qualifying in Submarine
     Mining corps are:—

Section I (Submarine Mining). — First year — To pass in subjects
(2), (3), (5), (6), (8), (9); second year — To pass in subjects
(1), (2), (3), (5), (6), (8), (9); third and subsequent years —
To pass in all subjects.

Subjects: (1) Ropes, cordage, chain, blocks, and tackles;
(2) knots, splices, making boat fenders, &c.; (3) rowing,
and management of small boats; (4) electric cables, wires,
and stores connected therewith; (5) preparing and jointing
the ends of electric cables; (6) mine cases, buoys, mooring-gear, trucks, apparatus, and inserting apparatus into mine
cases; (7) gun-cotton, and other explosive agents; (8) loading;
(9) drills for connecting up, slinging, laying out, and
raising.

Section II (Testing). — First year — To pass in subjects (1), (2),
(3), (4), (5), and (12); second year — To pass in subjects (1),
(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), and (12); third and subsequent
years — To pass in all subjects.

Subjects: (1) Batteries; (2) instruments; (3) electrical
tests; (4) detonators and fuses; (5) apparatus for testing
and making watertight joints; (6) description of circuit
closer, and relays; (7) fitting and testing relays, fitting up
apparatus, priming apparatus; (8) electro-contact mines;
(9) electro-observation mines; (10) arrangement of test-room and observing station for signaling and firing mines;