Chapter 209. for the issue of ordnance stores and supplies to the State of Maine to replace similar stores destroyed by fire
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CHAP. 209.— An Act for the issue of ordnance stores and supplies to the State of Maine to replace similar stores destroyed by fire.May 14, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Maine.Issue of ordnance stores, etc., to. in lieu of others destroyed. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to the State of Maine the following ordnance and ordnance stores and clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, to replace like stores issued to *Post*, p. 403.said State under the law for arming and equipping the militia; said FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 209, 211, 213. 1890.111 stores having been destroyed by fire on the seventh day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety, namely: Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: Fifty woolen blankets,Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. forty-eight blouses, forty-five forage caps, forty-one uniform dress coats, fifty-seven cork helmets, twenty-nine overcoats, forty-one trousers, two tenor drums, two pairs tenor drumsticks, fire Upton’s Tactics, revised. Ordnance and ordnance stores:
Three arm chests; one thousandOrdnance and ordnance stores. ball cartridges, caliber forty-five; sixty-one bayonets for Springfield breech-loading rifles, caliber forty-five; fifty-two bayonets for Springfield cadet rifle: one hundred and nine steel bayonet scabbards: one hundred and eight McKeever cartridge boxes; fifty-six gun slings; ninety-four knapsacks; five artillery sabers; six artillery saber belts and plates; fifty-six Springfield breech-loading rifles, caliber forty-five; forty-nine Springfield breech-loading cadet rifles, caliber forty-five; one hundred and thirty waist belts; one hundred and thirty-two waist-belt plates; one sixpounder brass cannon; one carriage for sixpounder brass cannon: one limber for sixpounder brass cannon: two rammers and swabs for sixpounder brass cannon; one trail handspike for sixpounder brass cannon; two iron tar-buckets, four sets wheel harnesses, four sets lead harnesses, five riding saddles, three leg guards, twenty saddle blankets, four bridles, five whips, three gunners haversacks, three worms and staves, one primer pouch, one lanyard, one Gattling gun (five barrels), one carriage for Gattling gun, one thumb stall, one priming wire pouch, one pole strap, two tow hooks.
Approved, May 14, 1890.