Transcriber’s Note:
Obvious spelling/typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. In particular, the word “ordnance” was consistently misspelled “ordinance” in the original, and has been corrected.
The second line of the fourth paragraph on [page 23] was originally transposed to the end of the third paragraph. This has been corrected to restore the sense of the text.