The quartermaster general shall attend to the care, preservation, safekeeping, and repairing of the arms, ordnance, accouterments, equipment, and all other military property belonging to the state or issued to the state by the government of the United States, for the purpose of arming and equipping the national guard.

Source: SL 1913, ch 267, § 8; SL 1917, ch 297, § 9; RC 1919, § 10556; SDC 1939, § 41.0109.