No ordnance or quartermaster’s supplies or other public property belonging to the United States for which the state of Kansas is responsible, issued to the state and charged against its quota for providing arms and equipments for the militia, shall be issued or loaned to any school or educational or charitable institution or society, or any independent military organization, or in any way diverted from the specific purpose and intent of the general government in making the appropriation for supplying equipment to the militia of the several states and territories; but said ordnance and quartermaster’s supplies and other public property belonging to the United States shall be issued only to the organized militia as recognized in this act, or to the reserve militia, when called out and organized as is herein provided: Provided, That ammunition may be expended at a military funeral, or at the burial of any old soldier or citizen of the state entitled to military honors, or in firing salutes at public ceremonies, when so ordered by the commander in chief.