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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
es of the said department shall be the duties performed by the Ordnance. Quartermaster and Subsistence Departments of the United States Army, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the Colonel of Ordnance, with the consent of the Governor. The officers of said department shall be governed by the articles of war, which are in force at this time for the government of the troops of the United States. Reinforcing United States Arsenals, Forts, &c., in Virginia. --Mr. Smith, of Amherst, offered the following resolution, which, after being slightly modified by amendments, was, on motion, referred to the House Committee on Federal Relations: Resolved, by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the further strengthening of the forts of Virginia, and the removal of arms and munitions of war from the arsenals within her limits by the General Government, will be looked upon as a menace or threat of war by her, and that we pledge her faith to restore the forts, dock yards a