1862 Conn. Acts 76, An Act In Addition To “An Act to Provide For the Organization And Equipment Of A Volunteer Militia, And To Provide For the Public Defense," chap. 68, § 34.

It shall be the duty of the brigade inspectors of the respective brigades, annually, in the month of October or November, to carefully inspect the armories and gun houses of the companies belonging to their brigades, and also the rooms occupied by regimental bands; and, on or before the first day of December, to make a full report to the quartermaster general of the condition of the same, and of the number of arms and equipments of the state, deposited in such armories and gun-houses . . . .