Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1877 — Annual Report of the Quartermaster-General of Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Annual Report of the QuartermasterGeneral of Indiana.

Samuel Beek, quartermaster-gen era! of the state, filed hi* annual report with the governor on Friday. A brief synopsis of it is here given: Twenty-six hundred and ten stand of arms have been distributed among thirty-six military organization* daring the past year as shown by the bondsfiled in the office. The guns are mainly Springfield rifles. These organization* have also in their possession nine cannon. Tbe invoice of store* at the state arsenal include* two Galling guns, 830 Springfield rifles, 86 Spencer rifles, 320 Enfield rifles, 180 cavalry sabers and straps, 320 cartridge boxes, 1,194 bayonet scabbards, and the accompanying equipments. Complaint is made that the building now used as the state arsenal is not at all suitable for the purpose, it being impossible to keep jArms in good condition or to protect the stores from the ravages of thjeve*. Numerous instance* have opeprred of doors and windows being broken in and guns stolen. |t i* recommended that the old arips bp exchanged for new ones us repent and approved pattern, as provided by *n set of congress. Various amendments to the militia laws of the stat* are stiggested- fb9 Pillis of th * state should be compelled, under penalty of forfejtnre o| privileges, to bold regqlar stated drills and enoampmonte, »<} tugn there should be a general «pqual or.sem ’i-snnusl drill The provision spy th* care and keeping of arms, their return to the government should be made more efficient. existing law the militia organisation of the state can never attejn * very high standard of excellence. There are several rilitianompanie? already formed but not supplied with arm*. All of them desire tbe new Springfield breech-loading rifles of 44 caliber; and as the state is now entitled to draw arm* and equipment* from the general government to the value of $11,483.61, ft i* recommended that a requisition be made at once for 500 of the *boy> named arm*, with th* proper equipmfntii. Twepty-two thousand hog* were butchered by the pork-packing eetablisbmeDt* at season, and they have clof *u. Misa Bessie bw bran admitted to practice law' to courts of Vig* WADty-