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In the Cellar under the Conference Chamber
45 Keggs of Musket Ball each 1/2 C.t w.t 4 Casks Bar Lead. 997 lb.
mixed Ball. 3000 Gun Flints
In the Powder House
21 Barrels of fine glazed Powder. 9 ditto Cannon Powder. 80
Keggs Musket Ball. 2 casks Musket and Carbine Ball. 84 buff
broad Sword Belts. 1000 Gun Flints
On the Half Moon Battery
15 pieces of Cannon fixed on Wood wanting Aprons and Tom-
kins, as also to be paid well and painted, which unless speedily done,
your Committee apprehends they will be rendered unfit for Service
and even dangerous to fire, and your Committee beg Leave to
inform your honourable House that the several pieces of old Cannon,
mentioned in former Reports to have been on th Point are none of
them remaing there now.
Your Committee find that since the last Report of the State of
the Arms and Ammunition, there have been received by the Arm-
ourer into the Magazine from Mr. James Dick 21 chests of Arms
containing 500 Muskets, Bayonets, Slings, Cartouch Boxes and
Bullett Moulds, and that there have been returned from Coll. Dag-
worthy's Company. 86 Firelocks, short Muskets and Carbines, 18
Cartouch Boxes, 10 old Slings, 8 hair Pouches and Powder Horns.
And your committee also find that out of the Arms and Ammunitions
mentioned in said last Report to be in the Magazine the arms since
returned and those since imported and delivered to the Armourer.
He has delivered out by the Governor's Order, the several Arms
and Quantities of Ammunition mentioned in the following Copy
of his Account for which he produced Vouchers to your Com-
mittee, Vizt.
By order of his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr. Lieutenant
General, and Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the
Province of Maryland and Avalon, delivered out of the Magazine
and Stores of the City of Annapolis.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
April 14
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