Excerpt from Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1896 The requisitions from the different States for ordnance and ordnance stores have been filled during the year to the extent which the limited appropriation for arming and equipping the militia would permit. The insufficiency of this appropriation for completely arming and equipping the militia has been shown by urgent applications for stores which could not be supplied under the appropriation. This is a repetition of the experience of former years, and attention has been invited to it in previous reports. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.