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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 a 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 equipments and camp equipage, have been deposited in a secure brick building in this town rented for that 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. The whole has been critically examined since its arrival here, and every part put into the best possible state of preservation, - and it is presumed no one will doubt the expediency of keeping it in that repair after having viewed it, and become acquainted with its value, and importance to the State. Such articles of ordnance and military stores belonging to the two States as had been during the late was deposited in different places within this State, on the sea coast, & not subsequently withdrawn therefrom, were assigned to Maine, and included in the final discharge executed by the Adjutant General. They are, however, comparatively of inconsiderable magnitude, and it is apprehended not in the best state of preservation. Whether it will be best to erect a cheap building to contain all the military property, except the powder and fixed ammunition, or to continue the whole where it is at present deposited, if the buildings can be rented, is a question submitted entirely to the judgment of the Legislature. In the year eighteen hundred & eight