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9 pistols the Locks broke and out of Order
4 pair Holsters 7 broken Drums
3 Chests Matches 30 blue Cases for Muskets
10 listed Cases for Carbines 5 half Pikes
15 pair Drum Sticks 11 New Carbine Slings
7 New Cartouch Boxes 9 Old Belts for Muskets
1/4Cwt. Musket Ball and great Shot
Under the Conference Chamber
382 Muskets very rusty and many of the Locks want repairing
60 D.o many of the Stocks broke and without Locks
35 Musket Barrels 3 Casks of Bar Lead
16 Kegs of Musket Ball each 1/2 Cw.t 3 powder Barrels filled with
Do.o
200 Bayonets 1500 Gun Flints
In the powder House
3600 Cw.t Gunpowder in 72 half Barrels
1400 W.t D.o in 14 Barrels Marked FLB
15 Barrels Bar Lead
77 Kegs Musket Ball
10 D.o mixed D.o
84 buff broad Sword Belts 1000 Gun Flints
On the half Moon Battery
15 Pieces of Cannon fixed on a Wooden Frame (which is much
decayed and Shatter'd) wanting Aprons and Tomkins and many of
them without Cramps which render them unfit for Service & ever
dangerous to fire The several pieces of Old Cannon mentioned in
former Reports to have lain on the point are none of them there now
Your Committee find that since the last Reports of the State of
the Arms and Ammunition there have been received into the Maga-
zine Seventy two half Barrels Gunpowder which was received into
the powder House before the present Armourer took Charge of the
Arms and Ammunition who has no Accounts, relating thereto he
informing your Committee that there have been two Barrels replaced
in the Magazine by Thomas Richardson and Company in Lieu of
two Barrels delivered him by Order of the Governor by whose Orders
the following Quanties (as mentioned in a Report to the Honourable
House October 24.th 1763) were delivered out of the Magazine and
Stores a Return of which has never been made Viz
1762 Nov.r 10.th Delivered to Mr Smith Merchant in Chester
Town 2 Barrels powder Marked FLB
1763 June 5.th Delivered to Basil Croser 2 Barrels Gunpowder to
be delivered to Col.o Thomas Prather or his Order at the Mouth of
Conococheague
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