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the preservation and improvement of the establishments, generally. 
Those objects have received due attention, and the condition of the 
public buildings, and other property, under the control of this De- 
partment, has been much improved, and is, generally, in a good state 
of preservation. 
The work done under the appropriation for arsenals, and which is 
not embraced in the statement, is the following : At Frankford, Pa. 
an arsenal 100 feet hy 36, three stories high; a store house 60 by 26 
feet, two stories high; and two work shops, 45 by 26 feet, one story 
high; all of stone, with slate roofs, have been commenced, of which 
the store house and work shops have been completed, and the 
arsenal nearly finished. The interior of a building, for oilicer's quar- 
ters, formerly commenced, has also been completed. At Greenleaf's 
Point, D. C. two work shops, of brick, each 100 by 25 feet, one story 
high, have been commenced and completed. A substantial wall, 260 
feet in length, connecting the buildings, has also been erected; and 
6000 cubic yards of earth have been removed; 1400 feet of stone fence, 
enclosing the magazine, has also been built. 
At Baton Rouge, the arsenal formerly commenced at that place 
has been entirely completed, and a substantial gun house, 110 by 45 
feet, of brick, has been commenced, and some progress made. The 
establishment at that place has been so fai' completed, that the ord- 
nance and ordnance stores, hitherto at New Orleans, (a considerable 
part of which were deposited in rented ware-houses,) have been re- 
moved to it. 
At Watervliet, N. Y. five and three quarters acres of land, adjoin- 
ing the public ground, and the New York Canal, have been purcha- 
sed, and a substantial shed, 100 by 28 feet, has heen ei-ected. 
Statement E show the quantity of ordnance and ordnance stoses 
issued from the arsenals and depots, for the supply of the army and 
military posts, from the first of January to the thirtieth of September, 
eighteen hundred and twenty three. 
In conclusion, I beg leave to observe, that, upon a review of the pre- 
ceding statements, it will be seen, that about seven hundred thousand 
dollars. was drawn from the Treasury, and remitted to tiie disbursing 
officers of this Department, and to contractors, during the year 1822, 
and that the whole amount has been regularly and promptly account- 
ed for; and that about five hundred and eighteen thousand dollars have 
been remitted, in like manner, during the three first quarters of the 
present year, and that the accounts of all the disbursing otlicers have 
been rendered up to th« close of tiie third (piarter, which accounts for 
the expenditure of about five hujidred and twelve thousand dollars, 
leaving a balance of only six tliousand dollars unexpended, whici) is 
applicable to the expenses of the present quarter. No instance of de- 
falcation, or of failure to render accounts promptly, having occurred 
during the period embraced by the statements. These satisfactoi-y 
results show, that the present system of accountability has attained a 
high degree of perfection, and that it has answered the fullest expec- 
tations. 
