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� General Orders, Boston, January 28, 1791.

The Commander in chief is highly  pleased with the martial spirit which pervades the greater  part of the officers and other patriotic citizens, composing  the militia of this Commonwealth, and he hopes they will  not relax in their laudable efforts to become the effective  guardians of the safety and welfare of their country.  He  expects that every officer will exert himself to organize  and completely array the corps to which he respectively  belongs, before the exercises of the season come on; so that  the whole may be in a condition to perform the several  duties required of them by law.
To promote this valuable purpose, by preventing untimely  resignations of officers, and to avoid the disorders  frequently occasioned by the elections of officers at  improper times of the year:  the Commander in chief  recommends, that all officers inclining to resign their  commissions, be permitted to do it before the month of  April, annually; and not in the seasons of exercise, except  in extraordinary cases; and that all vacant offices be  filled up, if possible,