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standing injunction of the law in this case, the regulation of the details of such detachments as may probably be required from the Brigade in the course of the season, is a point of consequence which urges the necessity of an accurate and timely attention to this object: And in this view it would be desirable to have the Returns of Regiments & select Companies sent to the Brigade-Major, as early at least, as the middle of June next.

By order of B. Gen. Sewall,

                                                  Amos Stoddard, Brigade-Major.

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             Brigade Orders, second Brigade, 8. Division, 
             
                                                  Augusta, August 24. 1797.

The Militia of the second Brigade will assemble in the course of the months of September & October next, for inspection, military instruction and discipline, under the direction of a Field Officer, at eleven o'clock in the morning on each of the following days, viz. the two companies of Pittston on the 19. of September; the three companies of Hallowell and Augusta, with Capt. Greenleaf's Artillery & Capt. Grant's Cavalry, on the 20, in one place; the three com panies of Vassalborough & Harlem on the 21; the company of Sidney on the 22; the two companies of Belgrade & West-