JAMES MONROE.

WASHINGTON, _February 23, 1818_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate requesting me to cause to

be laid before them a statement of all the arms and accouterments which

have been manufactured at the different armories of the United States,

with the cost of each stand, and the number delivered to each State,

respectively, under the act for arming the whole body of militia, I now

transmit a report from the Secretary of War, with the documents marked

A, B, and C, which, together with a report to him from the Ordnance

Department, contains the information required.

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