FORM NO. 41.-PROOF OF POWDER. FORM No. 41.-(See Article 123.) 125 Report of the Proof and Inspection of Cannon (Musket or Rifle) Powder, manufactured by for the Ordnance Department al the Powder Works of A Arsenal, (as the case may be,) this B or at the day of 18-. Total number of barrels rejected, 7 Total number of barrels received, as per certificate of inspection of this date. I certify, that the proof and inspection above referred to have been carefully made, and that this report is, in all respects, correct. (To be signed, in duplicate, by the Proving Officer.) Notes.-1st. Quick match will be used in priming the eprouvette. 2d. When Government powder is inspected at the Arsenals, the first four columns only are used. (See Article 120.) Endorsement to be as follows: "Inspection Report of barrels of Cannon (or Musket powder, &c.,) at the Powder Works of A (or at the B Arsenal,) APPENDIX. No. 1. EXTRACTS FROM LAWS RELATING TO THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. ARTICLE 1..The Ordnance Department shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, four majors, twelve captains, twelve first lieutenants, and six second lieutenants. 2....The President of the United States may select from the regiments of artillery such number of lieutenants as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the Ordnance Department. 3....The Secretary of War shall be authorized to select from the sergeants of the line of the army, who shall have faithfully served eight years in the service, four years of which in the grade of noncommissioned officer, as many ordnance sergeants as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post; whose duty it shall be to receive and preserve the ordnance, arms, ammunition, and other military stores, at the post, under the direction of the commanding officer of the same, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and who shall receive for their services five dollars per month, in addition to their pay in the line. 4....The colonel or senior officer of the Ordnance Department is authorized to enlist, for the service of that Department, as many master armorers, master carriage-makers, master blacksmiths, artificers, armorers, carriage-makers, blacksmiths, and laborers, as the public service, in his judgment, under the directions of the Secretary for the Department of War, may require. 1...Act 5th April, 1832. 5th July, 1838. 7th July, 1838. 3d March, 1847. Sec. 1. Sec. 4. Secs. 16 & 22. 2...Act 5th April, 1832. Sec. 3. 4...Act 18th June, 1846. Sec. 11. 5....The pay of a master-armorer shall be thirty dollars per month, and one and a half rations per day; of a master carriage-maker, thirty dollars per month, and one and a half rations per day; of a master blacksmith, thirty dollars per month, and one and a half rations per day. The pay of armorers, carriage makers, or blacksmiths, each sixteen dollars per month, and one and a half rations per day; the pay of artificers, thirteen dollars per month, and one ration per day; and the pay of laborers, nine dollars per month, and one ration per day; and to all of the said workmen, artificers, and laborers, the same clothing and other allowances as are allowed to privates of infantry in the army of the United States, except clothing to the master workmen. 6....All officers and enlisted men of the Ordnance Department shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and the officers shall receive the pay and emoluments allowed to officers of the regiment of dragoons. 7....The acts of Congress granting pensions to soldiers disabled by wounds or otherwise, while in the line of their duty in public service, shall be construed to apply to the enlisted men of the Ordnance Department who have been or may be disabled, in the same manner as to non-commissioned officers, artificers, musicians, and privates of other corps of the army, subject to the limitation, that in no such case shall the pension exceed the rate of eight dollars per month. 8....A competent person may be employed by the Ordnance Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for such time as may be necessary, to superintend the manufacture of iron cannon at the several foundries where such cannon may be made under contracts with the United States, whose pay and emoluments shall not exceed those of a major of ordnance during the time he shall be so employed, to be paid out of the appropriations for armament of fortifications. 9....The principal assistant in the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department shall receive a compensation not less than that of the person employed at the foundries, under the fifth section of the act approved the twenty-third of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, from and after the date thereof. 5...Act 8th February, 1815. See. 11. 7...Act 10th July, 1848. Sec. 1. RELATING TO THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. 129 10....It shall be the duty of the Colonel of the Ordnance Department to direct the inspection and proving of all pieces of ordnance, cannon balls, shot, shells, small arms, and side arms, and equipments, procured for the use of the armies of the United States; and to direct the construction of all cannon and carriages, and every implement and apparatus for ordnance, and all ammunition wagons, travelling forges, and artificers' wagons; the inspection and proving of powder, and the preparation of all kinds of ammunition and ordnance stores. And it shall also be the duty of the Colonel, or senior officer of the Ordnance Department, to furnish estimates, and, under the direction of the Secretary for the Department of War, to make contracts and purchases for procuring the necessary supplies of arms, equipments, ordnance, and ordnance stores. 11....The Colonel of the Ordnance Department shall organize and attach to regiments, corps, or garrisons, such number of artificers, with proper tools, carriages, and apparatus, under such regulations and restrictions relative to their government and number as, in his judgment, with the approbation of the Secretary for the Department of War, may be considered necessary. 12....The Colonel of the Ordnance Department, or senior officer of that department of any district, shall execute all orders of the Secretary for the Department of War, and, in time of war, the orders of any general, or field officer, commanding any army, garrison, or detachment, for the supply of all arms, ordnance, ammunition, carriages, forges, and apparatus, for garrison, field, or siege service. 13....The keepers of all magazines and arsenals shall, quarterly, or oftener, if so directed, and in such manner as directed by the Colonel of the Ordnance Department, make correct returns to the Colonel, or senior officer of the Ordnance Department, of all ordnance, arms, and ordnance stores they may have in charge. 14....The costs of repairs and damages done to arms, equipments, or implements, in the use of the armies of the United States, shall be deducted from the pay of any officer or soldier in whose care or use the said arms, equipments, or implements, were, when the said damages occurred: Provided, The said damages were occasioned by the 10...Act 8th February, 1815. Sec. 3. 13...Act 8th February, 1815. Sec. 6. 14...Ibid. Sec. 7. |