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ion of Cavalry and Artillery has likewise been furnish with colours; and musical instruments have been purchased and distributed through the several division for such companies of every description, as were destitute. The accounts of the expenditures under this appropriation will be laid before you by the Acting Quarter-master General. By a due attention to the subject much has been done for the militia of this State, during the two years in which our Government has been in operation. In return, the militia have also done much to merit favourable consideration. The reviewing officers give the most flattering accounts of the improvements which have been made, and are now making, both in the appearance and discipline in every Division; and from the returns, as well as from the general character of our population, there is reason to believe that the militia of this State is as well equipped and would be as hardy and effective in actual service as that of any portion of our Country. The annual returns, which will be laid before you, show our force to be upwards of thirty seven thousand able bodied men, generally supplied with arms and equipments in good order for immediate use. The "Rules and regulations for the field exercise and manoeuvres of Infantry" compiled by a board of Officers, of which Major General Scott was President, being under the laws of the United States the system of discipline for the militia in the several States, it is desirable that the same be generally promulgated and introduced. The Legislature will perceive the impracticability of carrying this system into effect, and conforming to the discipline therein prescribed, unless some measures are taken to place it in the possession of the Officers. It