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L. H. J.
Liber No. 49
Dec. 9
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Repair one other Pistol out of repair 16 Cutlasses 2 new Carbines
with Bayonets 74 Muskets not fitt for use 8 Musketts with 3 Slings
fitt for Service 10 new Trumpets with mouth pieces 21. Muskets the
Locks Broken and out of repair three Chests of Matches 5 new
Espontons and 83 Buff Sword Belts.
In the Cellar under the Conference Chamber.
60 Caggs of Musket Ball i Box of Flints 6. Barrels of Bar Lead.
997.lbs of mixed Ball
In the Powder House
134 large Buff sword Belts 79 half hundred Caggs of Ball and
half Barrel of Pistol Ball an half Barrel of Musket Ball One fourth
part of one Box of Gun Flints 29 Barrels of Powder marked
FLBO 26 Barrels of Common Powder marked P M one Barrel of
Ditto of the same Mark about half expended.
At the half Moon Battery.
15 Pairs of new Cannon fixed on Wood wanting Aprons and
Tomkins and tho' it has been advised to have these Cannon paid and
well painted for their preservation yet by neglect and want of other
proper care your Committee are Apprehensive they will not be fitt
for use but even dangerous to fire in a few years.
And your Committee begg leave to inform your Honourable House
that there is not any one peice of the old Cannon on the Point — the
place where it used to lye.
Your Committee find that since the last Report of the State of the
Arms and Ammunition there have been returned to the Armourer
into the Publick Magazine an half Barrel of Gun- Powder and
100lbs of Bar Lead from Col.o Tilghman 23 Musquetts 8 Carbines
an half Pike and one old Drum from the City of Annapolis i Brass
hilted Sword 5 Bright hilted Ditto 8 Ditto with Belts, 8 good pistols,
1 Pistol out of repair 8 p.r of Pistols with Holsters out of Repair
11 P.r of Holsters 8 Musqets with 3 Slings fit for Service. 32 Old
Musquets not fit for use & 4 Buff Sword Belts from Somerset
County.
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p.153
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And that since the said last Report all the Powder herein before
mentioned to be in the Powder House has been imported from
England and delivered to the Armourer as also 80 Caggs of Ball 2
Boxes of Flints and Six Barrels of Bar Lead.
And your Committee also find that out of the Arms and Am-
munition mentioned in the said last Report to be in the Magazine, the
Arms since returned and Powder and Ball since imported and de-
livered to the Armourer he has delivered out by the Governors Order
the several things mentioned in the following Copy of his Account
for which he produced Vouchers to your Committee Viz,t
By Order of his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq.r Lieutenant
General Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province
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