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(d.) Provision of additional accommodation for laboratory work. This will best be provided by tents and boarded floors.
Arrangements should be made for an officer of the Ordnance Store Department to visit all posts over storehouses and magazines once by day and once by night. A subordinate should be kept in attendance at each magazine and storehouse by day and night so long as considered necessary to meet sudden requirements.
Work in connection with the Navy.-The special work of the S.O.S.O. on mobilization, connected with the navy, already referred to, is as follows:-
The ships of the Steam Reserve, the torpedo-boats, and six merchant- .cruizers have to be equipped. Every man-of-war will complete her comple- ment of ammunition and stores, and if she is not here it has to be packed and dispatched to her. Each vessel will have any of her guns, of all descriptions, which have been at practice, examined.
The Torpedo Depôt will draw its mines, gun-cotton, &c.
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