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ACCOMPANYING REPORT.

The Commissary-General respectfully refers to his general return and the accompanying tables, from A. to H. inclusive, as presenting "the situation and disposition of all the ordnance, arins, ammunition and other munitions of war, property and things, which in any wise appertain to, or respect the department confided to his keeping."

The fortifications and public property (Forts Richmond and Tompkins) at Staten-Island, remain as per last report.

During the season, the arsenal, magazine and workshops at NewYork, have been kept in repair, a large proportion of the accoutrements oiled, and the arms preserved in order for service. The latter, however, will require overhauling and oiling the present season.

In the arsenal at Albany, twelve thousand stand of muskets have been cleaned, and a quantity of the accoutrements oiled. On opening and examining the boxes containing the arms, a deficiency of eight muskets was discovered, and which are accounted for by the keeper and the persons employed to assist him in cleaning the arms, by their affidavits, copies of which are annexed, marked No. 1 and 2.

The arms in the arsenals at Batavia, Watertown and Russell, have all been thoroughly cleaned and overhauled, and those at Elizabethtown have been oiled. The whole are fit for service.

During the season, about 40 gun-carriages, for field service, have been overhauled and repaired, and in some cases, painted, and nearly as many have been supplied with what implements and gunner's equipments they required to equip them complete.

I have again to mention, that but few reports have been received from commandants of artillery companies, in compliance with the fourteenth section of article second, of title eight, chapter ten of the Revised Statutes. The return of field pieces in the possession of artillery companies, in consequence, may not be correct, but it is as perfect as it was possible to make it, under all the circumstances.

During the visit of inspection, which I made the last season, to the several arsenals, I directed all the old arms of foreign fabric (which are unfit to be issued) and all parts of arms and condemned accoutrements, or perishable property, which was deemed unsuitable for the use of the sttate, to be sold (by auction or otherwise,) as should be thought most advantageous to the state. Before the articles could be arranged and sufficient publicity given to the proposed sale, it was thought to be too late in the season to sell the articles to advantage. The sale has therefore heen postponed until some early day of the ensuing summer, when it is contemplated to dispose of all the artieles of the description mentioned, remaining in the arsenals at Batavia, Watertown and Elizabethtown.

Respectfully submitted.
ALEXANDER M. MUIR,
Commissary-General.

State of New York, Commissary General's Office, }

New-York, January 18, 1831.