abuse or negligence of the said officer or soldier. And it is hereby made the duty of every officer commanding the regiments, corps, garrisons, or detachments, to make, once every two months, or oftener if so directed, a written report to the Colonel of the Ordnance Department, stating all damages to arms, equipments, and implements, belonging to his command, noting those occasioned by negligence or abuse, and naming the officer or soldier by whose negligence or abuse the said damages were occasioned.

15....The Colonel of the Ordnance Department shall make, half yearly, to the War Department, or oftener, if the Secretary for that Department shall so direct, a correct report of the officers, and all artificers and laborers in his department; also, all ordnance, arms, military stores, implements, and apparatus, of every description, and in such form as the Secretary for the Department of War shall direct.

16....For the safe keeping of the military stores, there shall be established, under the direction of the President of the United States, three or four arsenals, with magazines, as he shall judge most expedient, in such places as will best accommodate the different parts of the United States. Either, or both, of the arsenals heretofore used at Springfield and Carlisle, to be continued as part of the said number, at his discretion: Provided, That none of the said arsenals be erected until purchases of the land, necessary for their accommodation, be made, with the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same is intended to be erected.

17....There shall be established at each of the aforesaid arsenals a national armory, in which shall be employed one superintendent and one master armorer, (who shall be appointed by the President of the United States,) and as many workmen as the Secretary for the Department of War shall, from time to time, deem necessary.

18....To ensure system and uniformity in the different public armories, they are hereby placed under the direction of the Ordnance Department. And the Colonel of the Ordnance Department, under the direction of the Secretary for the Department of War, is hereby authorized to establish depots of arms, ammunition, and ordnance stores, in such parts of the United States, and in such numbers, as may be deemed necessary.

15...Act 8th February, 1815. Sec. 8. 16...Act 2d April, 1794. Sec. 1.

17...Act 2d April, 1794. Sec. 2.
23d April, 1808. Sec. 2.
18...Act 8th February, 1815. Sec. 9.

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19....The offices of the superintendents of the armories at Springfield and at Harper's Ferry shall be, and the same are hereby, abolished, and the duties thereof shall be performed by such officers of the ordnance corps as shall be designated by the President; and from and after the first day of October next, the master armorers, at the national armories, shall receive each, twelve hundred dollars annually, payable quarter yearly; and the inspectors and clerks each eight hundred dollars per annum; and the paymasters and military storekeepers at the armories, and at the arsenals of construction at Pittsburg, Watervleit, and Washington city, shall receive each twelve hundred and fifty dollars annually, payable in like manner; and the said paymasters and military storekeepers, shall give security for the faithful discharge of their duties, in such sum as the Secretary of War shall prescribe. And the two military storekeepers, authorized by the act of second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall receive each twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum. And no military storekeeper, at arsenals, shall, after the first day of October next, receive as pay or emoluments beyond eight hundred dollars per annum, besides quarters actually provided and occupied as such, and the number authorized to be thus employed is limited to ten; and all other offices of military storekeepers are hereby abolished and discontinued, on and after said first day of October; and the officers hereby dismissed shall be allowed three months' pay, in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they may be entitled on that day. And none of the above named officers, and no officers at the armories, of any grade whatever, shall herereafter receive emoluments of any kind, or any compensation or commutation beyond their stipulated pay, in money, except quarters actually provided for and occupied by such officers.

20....The military storekeeper at Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts, shall be allowed, from the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the same compensation as is authorized by the act of the twenty-third of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, to be paid to the storekeepers at the Washington, Pittsburg, and Watervliet arsenals.

19...Act 23d August, 1842, Sec. 2.

20...Act 3d March, 1849. Sec. 2.

21....The Colonel of the Ordnance Department, under the direction of the Secretary for the Department of War, is hereby authorized to draw up a system of regulations for the government of the Ordnance Department; forms of returns and reports; and for the uniformity of manufactures of all arms, ordnance, ordnance stores, implements, and apparatus, and for the repairing and better preservation of the same.

22....An annual account of the expenses of the national armories shall be laid before the Legislature of the United States, together with an account of the arms made and repaired therein.

23....If any person shall procure, or entice any artificer, or workman, retained or employed in any arsenal or armory of the United States, to depart from the same during the continu›nce of his engagement, or avoid or break his contract with the United States, or who, after due notice of the engagement of any such workman or armorer, in any arsenal or armory, shall, during the continuance of such engagement, retain, hire, or in any wise employ, harbor, or conceal such artificer or workman, the person so offending shall, upon conviction, be fined, at the discretion of the court, not exceeding fifty dollars, or be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months.

24....If any artificer or workman, hired, retained, or employed in any public arsenal or armory, shall wantonly and carelessly break, impair, or destroy any implements, tools, or utensils, or any stock or materials for making guns, the property of the United States, or shall wilfully and obstinately refuse to perform the services lawfully assigned to him, pursuant to his contract, every such person shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, for every such act of disobedience, or breach of contract, to be recovered in any court having competent jurisdiction thereof.

25....All artificers and workmen who are, or shall be, employed in the said armories, shall be, and they are hereby, exempted, during their term of service, from all military service, and service as jurors in any court.

26....The annual sum of two hundred thousand dollars shall be, and the same hereby is, appropriated for the purpose of providing

21...Act 8th February, 1815. Sec. 10.
22...Act 2d April, 1794. Sec. 5.
23...Act 7th May, 1800. Sec. 2.

24...Act 7th May, 1800. Sec. 3.
25...Ibid. Sec. 4.

26...Act 23d April, 1808. Sec. 1.

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arms and military equipments for the whole body of the militia of the United States, either by purchase or manufacture, by and on account of the United States.

27....All the arms procured in virtue of this act shall be transmitted to the several States composing this Union, and Territories thereof, to each State and Territory, respectively, in proportion to the number of the effective militia in each State and Territory, and by each State and Territory to be distributed to the militia in such State and Territory, under such rules and regulations as shall be by law prescribed by the Legislature of each State and Territory.

28....The act of the twenty-third of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, entitled "An act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States," shall be, and the same is hereby, declared to extend to the District of Columbia; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to issue arms and military equipments to the militia of said District, under such regulations for the return thereof as he may deem it proper to prescribe.

29....The Secretary of War is authorized, at his discretion, and having due regard to the necessities of the public service, to furnish to such persons as may apply for the same, and who design to emigrate to the Territories either of Oregon, California, or New Mexico, such arms and ammunition, from the army stores, as they may require to arm themselves for such expedition: Provided, That the arms and ammunition so furnished shall not exceed a supply sufficient to arm and equip each person of such expedition: And provided, further, That before the same are delivered, the actual cost to the Government of such arms and ammunition shall first be paid to the United States; and that the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that the persons so applying really and bona fide design them for the use aforesaid.

APPENDIX.

No. 2.

EXTRACTS FROM LAWS RELATING TO CONTRACTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.

ARTICLE 1..All purchases and contracts for supplies or services for the military service of the United States, shall be made by or under the direction of the chief officer of the Department of War.

2....No member of Congress shall, directly or indirectly, himself, or by any other person whatsoever in trust for him, or for his use or benefit, or on his account, undertake, execute, hold, or enjoy, in the whole or in part, any contract or agreement hereafter to be made or entered into with any officer of the United States, in their behalf, or with any person authorized to make contracts on the part of the United States.

3....Nothing contained in the preceding article shall extend, or be construed to extend, to any contract or agreement, made or entered into, or accepted, by any incorporated company, where such contract or agreement shall be made for the general benefit of such incorporation or company; nor to the purchase or sale of bills of exchange, or other property, by any member of Congress, where the same shall be ready for delivery, and for which payment shall be made at the time of making or entering into the contract or agreement.

4....In every such contract or agreement, to be made, or entered into, or accepted, as aforesaid, there shall be inserted an express condition that no member of Congress shall be admitted to any share or part of such contract or agreement, or to any benefit to arise thereupon.

1...Act 16th July, 1798. Sec. 3. 2...Act 21st April, 1808.

Sec. 1.

3...Act 21st April, 1808. Sec. 2. 4...Idem. Sec. 3.