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Colonel Ritchie sailed on the 16th of September, 1863. He was ordered to inspect the guns and projectiles being manufactured there for the State, and assume direction of the contracts, with power to modify the contracts in every respect, excepting so as to increase the total contract prices, and to cancel the contracts for such of the guns as it might appear to him would not probably be completed within the extension of time which had already been granted. The distinguished engineer, Mr. J. C. Hoadley, went out shortly after, and joined Colonel Ritchie in England, for the purpose of studying the machinery and the process employed in the manufacture of Captain Blakely's guns, with a view to the application of this knowledge at home. As the need of a supply of guns for immediate use was so pressing, Colonel Ritchie was, at his suggestion, further authorized to contract for not exceeding fifty 68-pounders, smooth-bore 95-cwt. guns, if they could be delivered within four months at rea