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4. Table of annual allowances of ammunition for Coast Artillery instruction and target practice:

1 Saluting primers, percussion.

Necessary components to fire this number of primers in addition to the 150 primer bodies authorized by Ordnance Department pamphlet No. 1872.

It is possible that at certain posts the use of a small-bore rifle attached to the gun will be authorized as a partial substitute for subcaliber practice. In this case the value of the allowance of subcaliber ammunition authorized is decreased by the value of the rifle ammunition used,

5. Submarine mine equipment.-The annual allowance of submarine mines will be as follows: To each mine company, 2 mines; to each mine detachment, 2 mines.

6. Ammunition for land defense cannon.-The allowance of ammunition for land defense cannon, including subcaliber ammunition, will not exceed $80 per company. Coast defense commanders are authorized to arrange the program for their commands, and may utilize one type of cannon for the firing, or may distribute the firing among two or more types. Coast defense commanders may have one company do all the firing or may distribute the firing among two or more companies, but the total allowance for the coast defense command will not be exceeded. In computing the cost the following values per round will be used:

7. Supply of targets, towlines, and anchors for Coast Artillery target practice, to be issued only upon requisition of the coast defense ordnance officer.-The manufacture of the large seacoast target has been discontinued and these targets will be no longer issued after the supply now on hand is exhausted. Additional seacoast targets, pyramidal, model of 1911, will be issued up to the number specified under the heading, "Seacoast targets, large, model of 1911," when the coast-defense command can not be supplied with the prescribed equipment of large targets.

To be taken to station where practice is held, if practicable.
$1,500 feet.

Full information in regard to the above supplies is given in Ordnance Department Form No. 1991, "Coast Artillery targets and accessories."

Two standard sizes of towlines are issued, 4 inches and 8 inches in circumference. Requisitions should state the size desired. The 8-inch towline is for use with the 30-foot by 60-foot target and when towing more than 1 target.

On account of the size and weight, considerable difficulty has been experienced in handling 8-inch rope and 6-inch has been found satisfactory in some coast defenses for this purpose. For each anchor 200 feet of 4-inch rope is allowed.

As the standard sizes of towlines are not always satisfactory on account of local conditions, other sizes may be

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issued when considered desirable, provided the total allowance is not exceeded.

S. Table of annual allowances of ammunition for mobile artillery instruction and target practice.

1 Batteries having 3-inch high-explosive shrapnel in their possession may expend not to exceed 50 rounds per battery in lieu of an equal number of common shrapnel, but high-explosive shrapnel will not be expended by the Field Artillery stationed at any post during the 1915 target season unless all unmodified common shrapnel on hand at the post will also be expended during this season.

2 Twelve and one-half or eighteen pound cast-iron powder-charged shell for 2.95-inch. High-explosive steel shell for other calibers.

Credit for subcaliber cartridge cases.-In addition to the allowance of subcaliber ammunition specified in paragraphs 4 and 8 of this order, there may be expended subcaliber ammunition to the money value of the empty cartridge cases, caliber 30, turned in to ordnance establishments. A credit of 10 cents per pound will be allowed for such cases.

The 1,740 rounds of ammunition authorized per regiment for 2.95-inch and 3-inch field guns give an average of ap proximately 41 rounds per officer for the full complement, in cluding regimental and battalion officers. When, under the provisions of Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 4, War Department, 1913, prescribing that officers on detached service shall participate in target practice, the number of officers conducting practice with any artillery command is such as to reduce the average number of rounds per officer below that amount, an increase sufficient to bring the allowance up to 41 rounds per officer is hereby authorized. Where an increased allowance is thus secured a memorandum giving the names of all officers participating in the practice with the organizations should be forwarded with the target practice reports. Under the provisions of Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 71, War Department, 1914, Field Artillery officers on detached service will attend, so far as practicable, the target practice of organizations equipped with the 3-inch field gun or the 2.95-inch mountain gun.

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In addition to the allowances prescribed herein for organizations equipped with guns or howitzers of calibers larger than 3-inch, an allowance of 20 shrapnel or shell for each Field Artillery officer on detached service who shall participate in the target practice of such an organization and who is not assigned to the regiment to which such organization belongs. The ammunition allowances will be expended in the manner prescribed in the current Field Artillery instruction and service practice order.

The allowance of 2.95-inch or 3-inch ammunition to be expended for instruction purposes at the School of Fire is 3,000 rounds of shell or shrapnel to be requisitioned for by the commandant of the school and is in addition to the allowances prescribed above for the Field Artillery organizations at Fort Sill.

9. Target material of a new type has recently been adopted. Full data regarding all this material will be found in Ordnance Department pamphlet No. 1994, Mobile Artillery Targets and Accessories, revised June 1, 1914.

On account of the use of the corresponding ranges by militia batteries, the battalion of Field Artillery stationed at Fort Myer, Va., the one at San Antonio, Tex., and the battery stationed at Sparta, Wis., have a regimental allowance of target materials and smoke bomb outfits and supplies.

10. Subcaliber ammunition, caliber .30, for 3-inch and 2.95-inch mountain guns.-At stations where during a portion of the year weather conditions prevent subcaliber practice with this ammunition there will be given to each battery in lieu of any portion thereof "subcaliber gallery practice cartridges, caliber .30," of equivalent money value.

11. Smoke bomb outfits.-The allowance of smoke-bomb devices for each battalion or battery separately stationed is 12 of the pole type. Seven hundred and fifty pounds of black powder and 6,000 primed revolver cartridge cases, caliber .38, are the annual allowances of expendable materials for a battalion, and one-half of this amount for a battery separately stationed. No more rifle grenade-type devices will be manufactured. The annual allowance of components for organizations having these on hand and desiring to use them is 800 rounds for a battalion and 400 for a battery separately stationed. This will be in lieu of one-third of the allowance for the pole type. Full data concerning these outfits will be found in Ordnance Pamphlet No. 1994, revised June 1, 1914.

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12. Disposition of mobile artillery empty metallic eartridge cases. After the expenditure of ammunition in target practice, the empty cases will be cleaned as prescribed by the Ordnance Department handbook relating to the equipment of the organization and turned over to the post ordnance officer, who will take them up on his property return as "empty metallic cartridge cases" under the heading provided for that purpose.

Upon the accumulation of convenient lots of such cases they will be packed in the boxes in which received and shipped from posts in the Eastern, Central, and Southern Departments to Frankford Arsenal; in the Western and Hawaiian Departments to Benicia Arsenal; and in the Philippine Department to the Manila Ordnance Depot.

All packing material of any description contained within the packing boxes of fixed ammunition, such as zinc linings, tin cans, packing pieces, etc., should be returned to the arsenals with the packing boxes. Fuze covers should also be returned when it is practicable to save them.

Battery commanders will be held responsible for the return of packing boxes and other material in good condition. The cost of ammunition charged against the target-practice appropriation is based on return in good condition, and if not so returned it may be necessary to reduce allowances of ammunition.

13. Misfires.-Rounds of fixed ammunition, or primers which have missed fire, will be reported to the armament officer. Blank ammunition which has misfired should be disposed of as indicated by Ordnance pamphlet No. 1658.

14. Care of ammunition.-For detailed information see Ordnance Department pamphlet No. 1888, Regulations for the Care and Test of Smokeless Powder and other Explosive Materials in Store at Ordnance Establishments and in Service, and Ordnance Department pamphlet No. 1872, Seacoast Artillery Ammunition and Instructions for its Preparation, Care, and Use.