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[Governors Message]

of the Legislature have had the best opportunity of becoming acquainted. -

By receipts at the Treasury it is rendered certain that the expense of this will be considerably less than that of the preceding system. - The amount accruing to the Treasury the current year for entry and other fees, taxed for the Court after discharging the salaries of the judges, will probably not vary materially from fifteen hundred dollars - ; but as the returns from some of the Counties have not yet been completed the precise sum cannot now be ascertained. -

On assuming the command of the militia my attention was directed to the thirteenth section of the militia law requiring the Commander in chief, under certain restrictions to prescribe the uniform and equipment which had been in no part executed. A general order was issued prescribing prescribing an uniform dress for all officers of Infantry which has been carried into effect in the several divisions of the State. In consequence of the particularity of said section in describing some parts of the uniform, it became difficult to adapt it, by proper variations to the several grades - The difficulty was not probably foreseen when the section was drafted, and may be easily remedied should it be deemed important. -

Under the resolve of the last Legislature making an appropriation for the purchase of State colours and musical instruments, those articles have been procured on terms highly advantageous to the State, Each regiment of Infantry has been supplied with two stands of colours from an

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