Submit copies of letter note within relative to the failure of there 8th inch from siege Hawitzers during the late compaign state that these pieces became unserviceable from the fracture of their trunnions under very moderate charges & elevation & that it is the general impression of the parmanent selected committee and all the officers consulted that it is to be at tributed to weakness of constructions,observe that ten 8 inch Hawritzers with trunnions of cncreased diameter were recived from englandby the ship.

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