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including seven Companies, of which no returns have been made. The actual amount at the present time will much exceed that number. The report of the Adjutant General, specifying the returns that have been made, and those that are deficient, with other useful suggestions, will be laid before you. A Magazine for the safe keeping of powder and fixed amunition [ammunition] has been erected near the State's Arsenal at Portland, in pursuance of the Resolve for that purpose. The Agent found it necessary to exceed the amount of the appropriation and will present his claim for the balance of his expenditures for your allowance. It will be necessary to provide for a new supply of the general laws of the State, required to be furnished to the several towns and public officers. I am informed that a new edition, improved by marginal notes and references, is in preparation, and it may be for the interest of the State to contract for the numbers of copies that will be necessary. The Treasurer will furnish you with a detailed statement of the financial concerns of the State. During the past year the receipts into the Treasury, have been One Hundred Forty Six Thousand, Thirty Three Dollars and Twenty six cents, exclusive of securities received for the payment of lands sold, and the expenditures, including Twenty Five Thousand Dollars paid towards the extinguishment of the public debt, amount to the sum of One Hundred Forty Thousand, Four Hundred Two Dollars and Fifty Four cents. The present amount of the debt of the State is Forty Three Thousand Dollars, which it is hoped the Government will be able to discharge, in the course of the present year, from the amount expected to be received from the United States on account of the Militia claim, if the Legislature should consider an appropriation for that purpose expedient.