The War Office Act 1870
An Act for making further provision relating to the Management of certain Departments of the War Office. [20th June 1870.] WHEREAS previously to the date of the Act next herein-after mentioned divers duties relating to the administration of ordnance, munitions of war, and military stores, were performed by certain officers, styled the principal officers of Ordnance: And whereas by the Act of the session of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hu...