----------------+--------------------------+------------------------ Gun. | Maximum Charge. |No. of projectiles for | |each gun of the command. ----------------+--------------------------+------------------------ 3.2-inch rifle |3½ lbs. L. X. Q. powder | 25 standard projectiles | | Hotchkiss | | revolving cannon| |100 standard projectiles. | | 3.6-inch mortar{|For each battery: (_a_) Fifteen shells without {|fuzes (shell ballasted); (_b_) five full charges, {|16 ounces. Ten 8 ounce charges, comprising each {|one 5-ounce and one 3-ounce charge bound together; {|these can be used as 3-ounce, 5-ounce, 8-ounce, {|or 11-ounce charges. ----------------+--------------------------------------------------- Each battery equipped as a battery of horse-artillery or a light battery will be allowed for instruction, other than target practice, as many blank cartridges and friction-primers as may be deemed necessary by the battery commander and approved by the post commander. For batteries armed with the Hotchkiss breech-loading mountain-gun there will be allowed for the annual target practice twenty-five standard projectiles for each gun of the command, or their equivalent in money value if reloaded. For each machine-gun of small-arm calibre there will be allowed for the annual target practice two thousand ball cartridges, or their equivalent in money value if reloaded. Blank cartridges for salutes and for firing the morning and evening gun: 3.2-inch rifle, 2½ lbs. I. K. powder. 3-inch rifle, 1 lb. of either mortar, cannon, or I. K. powder. 6-pdr. bronze gun, 1 lb. of either mortar, cannon, or I. K. powder. Light 12-pdr. bronze gun, 1¾ lbs. of either mortar, cannon, or I. K. powder. VETERINARY MEDICINES. Veterinary medicines, instruments, and supplies for the treatment of all public animals, and the authorized private horses of mounted officers, are furnished by the Quartermaster's Department. Requisitions and estimates for veterinary supplies will be made in conformity with the standard supply table. Only the articles and the quantities thereof that are actually needed will be placed on the requisition. The quantity prescribed in the table is not to be considered an allowance, but as a limit not to be exceeded without special authority.