Gunnery in 1858: Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms Explaining the Principles of the Science of Gunnery, and Describing the Newest Improvements in Fire-Arms

CHAPTER VI.--THE PROOF OF GUN BARRELS.

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Proof-house of Gun-maker’s Company--Proof Acts of 1813 and 1815-- Provisions of Gun Barrel Proof Act of 1855--Penal clauses--Schedule B --Proof marks--Scale of charges for Proof--Mode of proving (with cut) --Number of barrels proved in 1857 243