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MINUTES OE .PROCEEDINGS OE 
Lading of the wheel carriages of the mountain battery. 
The following articles are laden on the wheel carriages of the mpuntain 
batteries:— 
2-horse country 
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Nature of Stores. 
Stores of sorts. 
Spare leather of sorts, rope ware, cow and' 
calf hair in a large havresack, cleaning 
rags in a small havresack, mule shoes and 
nails . h between 
1 harness-blacking box, one grease box and 
contents... 
1 pair of folding clams. 
1 leather cartouche with leather sling containing a com¬ 
plete set of saddlers’ tools for mountain battery, save 
the clams, the rope-ware laid down in the list of stores 
for the saddlers’ use, various materials and metals of 
sorts ... 
1 pickaxe, 1 shovel, 1 wood axe, 1 hand-axe, and 1 wooden 
drink keg ... .. 27'2 
lbs. 
74*1 
equally 
divided 
- between 
66*7 
two 
packbags. 
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4*9 
22*2 
Rations. 
26 rations at 2*5 lbs. each (bread, tobacco, and salt) for 
the 13 men detailed to the train for two days (in one 
pack bag) . .. 65’4 
93 meat rations for 93 men for one day (cut up and 
wrapped in brushwood) . 61*7 
Beserve rations for 93 men at T35 lbs. (divided between 
two pack bags) . 129*6 
Forage. 
6 pecks of oats (48 rations) for all the horses and mules 
out of draft belonging to the battery for one day. 345*7 
Baggage. 
20 pairs of boots, spare (in one pack bag). 77*8 
1 cartouche with shoemakers’ tools and uncut material ... 29*6 
9 cooking utensils* with stew-pan and 2 coffee-ration 
beakers .;....... 29 ; 6 
Bur-load'. 
4 days’ forage for draft cattle, 1 corn sack (two pecks), 
and 1 hair bag (tt). ...... 114’8 
Load of the first wagon, exclusive of the wagon’s weight 1065*5 
