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Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Quartermaster-General of the State of New Jersey: For the Year 1884
An act for the "Organization of the National Guard of New Jersey," makes it the "duty of the Quartermaster-General to make an annual report to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the number and condition of the arms and equipments belonging to the State, the number loaned out, in whose hands, and whether they remain under proper responsibilities, including in said return all camp and garrison equipage in his charge."
Agreeably thereto I have the honor to submit a report of the same, together with the most important transactions of this department for the year ending October 31st, 1884, with such remarks and recommendations as the demands of the service seem to require. Detailed statements of the daily operations will be found in the appendices under their appropriate heads, the issues of all ordnance stores, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, to the several organizations of the National Guard, and the receipts of the same from all sources at the State Arsenal during the past year, together with the stores on hand at the close of the present year.
The Quartermaster-General of the State is also Commissary-General, Paymaster-General and Chief of Ordnance. As Quartermaster-General he is required to provide clothing, camp and garrison equipage, quarters and transportation and quartermaster's stores; as Commissary-General, subsistence in kind or cooked; as Paymaster-General, payment of troops and disbursement of money; and, as Chief of Ordnance, to provide and issue ordnance and ordnance stores, arms and ammunition. Supplies are obtained either by contract or in the open market, whichever is to the best advantage of the State, or manufactured at the State Arsenal. Clothing is purchased principally by contract, awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, under rules and regulations for their proper inspection, and, if not in conformity to the contract and equal to samples, are rejected.
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Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Quartermaster-General of the State of New Jersey: For the Year 1884
The employes at the State Arsenal, after several years' service, have attained to great skill and proficiency in the manufacture of cartridges. They are hand-made, and believed to be equal, if not superior, to those made by machinery. The facilities are such, that with the skill of the present force of experienced men, there can be turned out six thousand rounds of ammunition daily. Only a limited num ber of cartridges are kept on hand, as they are found to deteriorate by age, and the best results are obtained from freshly-made ammunition. Shells corrode rapidly by the chemical action of the powder and grease in the charge, but if cleaned immediately after firing, can be reloaded a number of times.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.