9. At each ordnance station public quarters, when available, may be Quart assigned to ordnance officers on duty by the commanding officer according to rank, or otherwise with the approval of the Chief of Ordnance; but the allowance of quarters for an Ordnance Storekeeper, which he shall occupy during his tour of duty, shall be specially designated by the commanding officer.

10. A fair rent is charged to hired men who occupy public quarters at an armory, arsenal or ordnance establishment. The price is fixed by the commanding officer, and the disbursing officer collects the sum due by retaining the proper amount when making the monthly payments. The amounts thus collected are specified on the rent roll which accompanies and forms part of the monthly cash accounts of the establishment.

11. The number and grade of enlisted men at each ordnance station are fixed by the Chief of Ordnance. They are enlisted in the grade of second-class private, and may be mustered at the discretion of the officer in command, in any grade for which they are competent and in which there is a vacancy, except in the grade of sergeant, promotions to which grade require the previous sanction of the Chief of Ordnance. They may be discharged for cause before the expiration of enlistment by the Secretary of War. Enlistment papers (Form 24) are made in duplicate-one retained, the other forwarded to the Ordnance Office. In making out discharge papers, great care is observed that the age of the soldier at date of discharge is correctly given.

12. The names of Ordnance Stations, as now existing, are officially known and designated as follows, viz:

The Ordnance Office

The Ordnance Board.

The Ordnance Agency

The Proving Ground

Washington.
New York.

New York.

.Sandy Hook, N. J.

The Department of Ordnance and Gunnery at

the Military Academy...

The Saint Louis Powder Depot.

The National Armory.

The Augusta Arsenal
The Benicia Arsenal..

The Fort Mouroe Arsenal.
The Fort Union Arsenal.
The Frankford Arsenal...

The Indianapolis Arsenal....
The Kennebec Arsenal
The New York Arsenal...
The Pikesville Arsenal.

The Rock Island Arsenal.

The San Antonio Arsenal.

West Point, N. Y.
...Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
...Springfield, Mass.
...Augusta, Ga.
Benicia, Cal.
Fort Monroe, Va.
.. Fort Union, N. M.
Philadelphia.
.Indianapolis, Ind.
Augusta, Me.
..New York.
.Pikesville, Md.

. Rock Island, Ill.
San Antonio, Texas.

The Vancouver Arsenal..
The Washington Arsenal.
The Watertown Arsenal.
The Watervliet Arsenal..

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Port orders.

Arenal

Vancouver, Wash. Ter.
Washington.

Watertown, Mass.

West Troy, N. Y.

And the Headquarters of the Military Geographical Divisions and-
Departments.

13. The general denomination "ordnance and ordnance stores" comprehends all cannon and artillery carriages and equipments; all apparatus and machines for the service and manoeuver of artillery; all smallarms, accouterments, and horse equipments; all ammunition, and all tools, machinery, and materials for the ordnance service; horse medicines; materials for shoeing; and all horse equipments and harness for the artillery; and in general all property, of whatever nature, supplied to the military establishment by the Ordnance Department.

14. Officers of the Ordnance Department are charged with procuring all ordnance and ordnance stores for the use of the military establishment. These stores are procured by fabrication in the arsenals, armories, or other ordnance establishments, by contract, or by open purchase.

15. No changes are made in the established models or patterns of ordnance and ordnance stores for the service of the United States without the approval of the Secretary of War.

16. The commanding officer of an armory, arsenal, depot, or other ordnance establishment, under the direction of the Chief of Ordnance, makes and publishes the rules for its internal government, procures the necessary materials and tools, engages the workmen, assigns their grades, and appoints the necessary foremen. The cause for discharging or displacing a foreman is immediately reported to the Ordnance Office. Official copies of all post orders promulgated are sent, upon issue, to the Chief of Ordnance.

17. Contracts for labor or workmen strictly conform to the ruling custom or practice of civil employers at or near the respective ordnance establishments. It is competent to fix by agreement the number of hours that shall constitute a day's work, as well as the price to be paid therefor, and it is only in the absence of contract that eight hours is regarded as the limit.

18. The commanding officer of an armory, arsenal, or other ordnance establishment extends to the junior officers under his command every facility and encouragement in the performance of ordnance duties, assigning to each some portion of the manufacturing and administrative work-for which each will be held responsible-and keeps them constantly advised of the orders and instructions received, and the correspondence conducted in administering the affairs of the command both as a manufacturing establishment and a military post.

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19. When a permanent change in the command of an armory, arsenal, depot or other ordnance establishment occurs, the officer relieved prepares and adjusts all accounts both for money and property. He makes and gives to the officer relieving him a certified abstract of all outstanding debts, and no outstanding claims other than those embraced in such abstract are settled without instructions from the Ordnance Office.

20. In case of the temporary absence of the officer duly assigned to the command of an armory, arsenal, depot, or other ordnance establishment, the command devolves upon the assistant next in rank to the commanding officer. Should there be no commissioned officer of ordnance present on duty, the command devolves upon the ordnance storekeeper. The officer in temporary command cannot, except in urgent cases, alter or annul the standing orders of the regular or permanent commander without authority from the Chief of Ordnance.

21. When a commanding officer of an armory, arsenal, or other ordnance establishment, receives an order or direction from any authority, other than that of the Chief of Ordnance, or which has not passed through the Ordnance Office, be immediately reports the facts in the case and the action he has taken, with such remarks as he may deem necessary for a full understanding, to the Chief of Ordnance. In cases of importance the report is made by telegraph.

22. Whenever an officer of the Ordnance Department receives an order changing his station, or directing him to perform any duty which necessitates his absence from his station temporarily, or granting him a leave of absence, he acknowledges the receipt of the order to the Chief of Ordnance, and on the day he leaves his station reports his departure, and on the day he returns to his old, or arrives at his new station, his return or arrival, as the case may be, and if any unusual delay has occurred in the execution of his orders, he gives the reasons therefor. When a commanding officer of an armory, arsenal, or other ordnance establishment, leaves his station by virtue of an order, leave of absence, or for any other reason, and devolves the command upon a subordinate, for a period exceeding twenty-four hours, not only does the commanding ́officer make the reports specified above, but the subordinate who succeeds to the command reports his assumption of command, and afterwards his relief.

23. Whenever an accident, endangering life or property, occurs at an arsenal, armory, or other ordnance establishment, a brief report of its nature and results is immediately made by telegraph to the Chief of Ordnance, and, as soon thereafter as possible, a full report by mail of all the particulars connected with it, the causes that led to it, the number of persons employed in the vicinity whose lives were endangered, and the results, with such recommendations as the commanding officer may deem proper to make.