10 (a) Knowledge and use of azimuth instruments...... 10 (d) Apparatus and operation of casemate switch- 10 10 ... 10 25 (e) Care and preservation of material and handling high explosives .... (f) Material of and duties in loading room (g) Material for and duties on the water. 25 10. The qualifying mark for classification as first or second class gunner shall be in each case not less than an average of 75 per cent. If the mark attained by a candidate for first or second class gunner in any one subject is less than 65 per cent his examination will be discontinued. 11. A board appointed under paragraph 2 or paragraph 7 of this order will keep a record of its marks during the examination, but these marks will not be published. The record of each company will be sent to the department commander as soon as possible after the completion of the examination of the company, to be published immediately. The report of the board to be published in orders will simply contain the names. of those who have qualified as first and second class gunners, and recite the date of the report in each case, the names being arranged for each company in each class in muster roll order. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. No. 109. WASHINGTON, June 20, 1904. The following instructions relative to the appointment and duties of artillery district staff officers and of the corresponding staff officers at coast artillery posts, the supply and transfer of property and stores, and the visits of inspection at artillery posts by officers of the Ordnance Department are pub. lished for the information and guidance of all concerned: ARTILLERY DISTRICT STAFF OFFICERS. 1. Hereafter the artillery district staff officers shall be the adjutant, the artillery engineer, the ordnance officer, and the quartermaster. These officers will be appointed from the available officers in each district by the artillery district commander, who will at once report his action to The Military Secretary, War Department. The adjutant and the ordnance officer will when practicable be graduates of one of the artillery service schools. The artillery engineer will when practicable be a graduate of the School of Submarine Defense. Should the officer selected be not unassigned application will be made for his transfer to the unassigned list; the number and rank of the officers who can, for the present, be uǹassigned in each artillery district for staff duty is that announced in General Orders, No. 36, War Department, 1903. In districts where the artillery engineer is in command of a torpedo company he will be on the staff of the district commander, but will not be one of the unassigned officers allowed by the above-quoted order. THE ADJUTANT. 2. The adjutant shall as far as applicable to artillery districts perform the duties prescribed in regulations and orders for regimental adjutants. THE ARTILLERY ENGINEER. 3. The duties now devolving upon the engineer, signal, and 27 Recd submarine mine officers of artillery districts shall be performed by one artillery officer, who shall be known as the artillery engineer. The district artillery engineer shall be charged with the accountability for and care and preservation of all engineer and signal property, stores, and installations which have been turned over to the artillery, and all submarine property. stores, and installations in the district. He shall inspect all such property, stores, and installations at each post in his district at least once each calendar month. He shall semiannually test the cable stored in his district, making records in the cable book supplied from the torpedo depot. A transcript from this book showing the latest test shall be forwarded with the semiannual reports hereinafter prescribed. He shall make timely requisitions for each post separately for engineer, signal, and submarine mine stores, and for all the necessary equipment required for the approved installations in his district, and shall be responsible, under the artillery district commander, for their sufficiency and efficiency. He shall make all the returns required by the chiefs of the respective departments concerned for the engineer, signal, and submarine property in the district. He shall issue to the artillery engineers at posts on memorandum receipts submarine mining, engineer, and signal property and stores. He shall recommend the transfer, when necessary, of available engineer, signal, and submarine mine property from one post to another within the district to the artillery district commander, who is authorized, with the approval of the department commander, to make such trans fer, unless the efficient operation of any approved installation or scheme of defense will thereby be impaired. Transfers of submarine mine property shall be reported to the commanding officer of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York. He shall have general supervision over all authorized repairs to the property for which he is accountable except such as are specially authorized to be made by the post artillery engineer. If any repairs can not be made with the facilities at hand and the services of skilled employees of the departments concerned are needed, he shall report, through the artillery district commander, to the engineer and signal officers charged with the installation, supply, and repairs in that locality, or with the commanding officer of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York. He shall personally supervise, under the direction of the artillery district commander, the submarine mining instruction in the district THE ORDNANCE OFFICER. 4. The artillery district ordnance officer shall be charged with the accountability for and care and preservation of all ordnance property and stores in the district which have been turned over to the artillery, and shall inspect all such property and stores in his district at least once each month. He shall make timely requisition, by posts, for ordnance stores and supplies and shall be responsible under the artillery district commander for their sufficiency and efficiency. He shall make such returns and reports in regard to the ordnance property as are required by the Chief of Ordnance. He shall issue on memorandum receipts to post ordnance officers all ordnance property and supplies pertaining to the armament at their posts. He shall recommend the transfer of available ordnance property and stores from one post to another within the district to the artillery district commander who is authorized, with the approval of the department commander, to make such transfers, except that the transfer of guns, carriages, and range finders, or other material permanently emplaced, will not be made without authorization of the Chief of Staff. He shall have charge of the district repair shop and shall have supervision over the resident machinists of the Ordnance Department. 5. The methods to be pursued in making repairs are as follows: Minor repairs which can be made with the facilities at hand at the post are made under supervision of the post ordnance officer. Repairs requiring the employment of the resident machinist and use of district repair shop shall be made under supervision of the artillery district ordnance officer. Repairs which can not be made with the facilities provided in artillery districts will be reported by the artillery district ordnance officer, through the artillery district commander, directly to the armament officers of the Ordnance Department, who have been instructed to comply with the requests to fur nish necessary mechanics and material. These repairs shall be made either under the personal supervision of the armament officer or under the supervision of the artillery district ordnance officer on request of the armament officer to the artillery district commander. If armament foremen or extra mechanics are sent into the district for this work they will report to the artillery district commander. When these repairs are made under supervision of the artillery district ordnance officer he shall receive from the armament officer such technical instructions in regard thereto as may be necessary. When repairs are made under the personal supervision of the district armament officer he will send notice to this effect to the post commander, through artillery district commander, who will afford him such assistance as may be required, includ ing the use of the repair shop and the services of the mechanics, and, if necessary, an ordnance fatigue detail. 6. Alterations or changes will be made by the artillery district ordnance officer or the armament officer in accordance with the rules prescribed for making repairs, but no alterations or changes will be made which have not been previously authorized by the Chief of Ordnance. ARMAMENT DISTRICTS 7. The armament districts are as follows: Northern District, Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For the fortifications of the New England Coast down to and including New London, Connecticut. Central District, New York Arsenal, Governors Island, New York Harbor: For the fortifications of New York Harbor (excepting those on Sandy Hook), Delaware River, Baltimore, Washington, and Hampton Roads. Sandy Hook District, Sandy Hook Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey: For the fortifications on Sandy Hook. Southern District, Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For the fortifications of the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts, from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Galveston, Texas, both inclusive. Western District, Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For the fortifications of the Pacific Coast. INSPECTIONS BY OFFICERS OF THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. 8. Officers of the Ordnance Department who are authorized |