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[Governors Message]

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as had been during the late war deposited in different places within this State, on the sea cost, and not subsequently withdrawn therefrom, were assigned to Maine and included in the final discharge executed by the Adjutant General.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 magnatude [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 and eight, Congress passed a law appropriating two hundred thousand dollars annually "for the purpose of providing arms and military equipments for the whole body of the Militia of the United States." -

Owing to circumstances not within the control of the War Department, no distribution of the arms procured under this appropriation has been made for the last six years. - In reply to a letter addressed to the Secretary, upon this subject, I am assured that it is probable an apportionment will be made within a few months. - Our proportion of the arms, now to be distributed, will be about two thousand five hundred stands, which