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 themselves in communication with the Secietary of the the Admiralty.

9. The Admiralty, in considering offers of the services of Reason for a new Corps, will have regard to the number of Corps or formation. Batteries already existing on the same part of the Coast where the proposed Corps would be.

10. The formation of a new Corps will not be sanctioned, unless a sufficient number of persons to form a Battery are prepared to enrol themselves, and whilst any Battery already existing in the locality is below its establishment.

11. In offering the services of a new Corps for acceptance, it should be stated:—

(a) The place proposed for its head-quarters. (b) The number of persons who are prepared to enrol themselves. (c) The name and address of some person with whom communications on the subject may be made. (d) The Brigade of which it will form a part. (e) That a proper place will be secured for the safe custody of any Government arms and ammunition which may be issued.

12. Whenever it is practicable, a Brigade will be formed at each of the large ports in the Kingdom, and the batteries composing the Brigade will be raised in the immediate neighbourhood of the port.

When the Volunteers are not of sufficient strength at District any port to form a Brigade, the batteries enrolled on a part of the coast formed into a district, will be formed into a Brigade, and will be called a District Brigade.

The object of this organization is to unite separate batteries under one head, to secure uniformity among them, and to afford them the advantage of an Officer Instructor.

13. The "Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Force" takes precedence immediately after the "Royal Naval Reserver Volunteers" established by the Act of 1859.

14. The relative precedence of the Brigades forming the Force is determined by the date on which they were first severally established.