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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
June 9
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30. trumpets
70. broad swords
15. daggers
78 buff slings
50 sword blades
Above the conference chamber
85 black hilted swords; 42 bright ditto; 15 cutlasses; 35 pistols;
2 new drums; 1 old ditto, a little damaged ; 200. new bayonets, with
cartouch boxes, and bullet moulds; 90 buff belts; 29 old bayonets;
86 carbines and short muskets; 57 old muskets, and carbines; 104
ditto, mostly without locks, and not worth repairing; 9 pistols, the
locks broke; 4 pair holsters; 7 broken drums; 3 chests matches; 30
blue cases for musketts; 10 listed ditto for carbines; 5 half pikes;
15 pair drum sticks; 1 1 new carbine slings ; 7 new cartouch boxes
9 belts for musketts; 1/4 C. w.t musket ball and great shott; 15 mus-
ketts in good order, being removed from the council chamber.
Under the conference chamber
382 muskets, very rusty, and many of the locks want repairing;
6o ditto mostly without locks; 35 musket barrels; 16 kegs musket
ball, each 1/2 C. w.t 3 powder barrels, filled with ditto, 200 bayonets;
1500 gunflints.
In the powder house
12 barrels gun powder, each 100.lb 65 1/2 ditto, each 50.lb 15 small
casks bar lead. 8o kegs musket ball, each 1/2 C. w.t 1 M gunflints.
On the half moon battery.
15 pieces cannon, upon a straight frame, without tomkins, clamps,
or aprons ; appear to be in good order and better fixed than heretofore.
Your committee find, that there has been no arms or ammunition
received into the magazine, since the report made to the honorable
house in the year 1765, and that the arms are in much the same con-
dition as they were at that time except those in the council chamber,
and the cannon on the battery, which appear to be in good order,
and the latter better fixed than when that review was made.
Having applied to the armourer for the amounts of the arms and
ammunition received into the magazine, and delivered out, he ac-
quaints your committee, that he has delivered out none, since he has
had the charge thereof, and that he never had any amounts relative
thereto, given in to him
Your committee further beg leave to acquaint the honorable house
that the arms in the cellar below the conference room, unless soon
removed, will be much damaged by the rust, and immagine it would
be most advisable for them to be sold for the benefit of the country;
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