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received the said property, to superintend its transportation to this place, taking care, "that every service be done at the lowest expense, to have full and satisfactory vouchers for every payment, and in no case to suffer any useless service to be performed, or unnecessary expense to be paid". The Council further advised to a sale of such part of the powder as would not be necessary for the use of the State, which was accordingly effected, leaving in the arsenal here a quantity, exclusive of fixed ammunition, estimated to be sufficient for three years expenditure. With the proceeds of the sale all the charges, of removing the property to this place, have been defrayed. The expenses of landing and securing it, after its arrival here, have been partially paid out of the contingent fund, with a small addition out of the money received from the parent State: but the accounts remain unsettled, and will be submitted for your consideration. Previous to the removal of the property, application had been made to the Secretary of War for permission to use two brick buildings in this town, belonging to the United States, which had for a long time remained unoccupied. The permission was granted upon condition that the buildings be retained by the State only during the time they may not be required by the United States, and that they be kept in good repair while they remain in possession of the State. It became necessary to repair these buildings in such a manner as to render one safe, as a magazine for powder only, and the other for fixed ammunition. It was also deemed necessary both for the security of the buildings, and the preservation of the heavy ordnance placed near them, to enclose the whole with a substantial empaling. The accounts for these services will also be laid before you. The shot and shells, amounting to upwards of one hundred tons are deposited in a gun-house, belonging to the