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302 [Governors Message] be required by the United States, and that they be kept in good repair while they remain in the possession of the State. It becomes necessary to repair these buildings in such a manner as to under one safe a magazine for powder only, and the other 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 & shells, amounting to upwards of one hundred tons are deposited in a greenhouse, belonging to the State, erected many years since, for the use of one of the Companies of Artillery in this town, which has lately been disbanded. This building is situated on land belonging to the town, and the municipal authority have recently suggested a wish for its removal. The subject will require Legislative provision. The small arms, including our proportion of those already received from the United States, amount to nearly four thousand stands, which with the accompanying equipment and camp equipage, have been deposited in a secure brick building in this town rented for the purpose; and the residue of the property, such as small ordnance and gun carriages have been secured in a building rented on account of the State in Westbrook.