ROYAL SALUTE. } As in preceding paragraph (_see_ Also S. PRESENT--ARMS. } =189=), but the band will play the } National Anthem, or the first six bars of it } (_see_ K. R. 45). SLOPE--ARMS. 4. _Inspection in line._ The reviewing officer, accompanied by the commanding officer of the battalion, who will ride on the side further from the troops, will then pass down the line from right to left, returning along the rear, the men standing with sloped arms. The band will play a march until he returns to the right of the line. The reviewing officer will then give orders for the march past. 5. _Inspection in column._ (PLATE X.) When a battalion is reviewed in column, the reviewing officer will be received as in S. =190= (2) or (3); he will then inspect the companys in column, each company commander receiving him with a salute, and following him during the inspection of his company, the men standing with sloped arms and bayonets fixed. After the inspection of the company, the commander will unfix bayonets and stand at ease. =191.= _Battalion marching past._ 1. Points will be placed on the principles described in S. =187=; the points marking the saluting base will be covered in a line at a convenient distance from the saluting point. 2. _In Column._--Bayonets having been fixed, and quarter column by the right having been formed on No. 1, the battalion will move to the right in fours; on reaching the first point it will wheel a quarter circle to the left, moving on as soon as the change is completed; it will be halted and turned to the left on the saluting base by the commanding officer. The right section commanders will turn about and be covered by the adjutant, and on the commanding officer’s order BATTALION, RIGHT--DRESS, they will dress their companies, and give the word _Eyes--Front_. ADVANCE IN } COLUMN BY } The commanding officer will give the caution THE RIGHT. } to advance in column. _No._ 1. } The commander of No. 1 will then march it off, _By the Right,_ } the remaining companies following in succession _Quick--March._ } at company distance, and acting as in S. =187=. 3. _In quarter column._--If the battalion be required to march past in quarter column, the leading company will be halted when it has moved to forty-five paces beyond the third point. Quarter column will be formed by order of the second in command, who will superintend the covering. The column will change ranks, order arms, and on the command LEFT DRESS, the directing section commanders will step back two paces, aligning themselves with the rear rank, and the company commanders will take post on the left of the front rank, and the companies will dress by the left.