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The Commanding-officers of Companies will use every prudent exertion in requiring those citizens who are deficient in arms, speedily to furnish themselves. The present high price of arms can be a plea only to those who are unable to buy them -- and it ought to be considered that they are an expence but once to be incurred; for with proper care, they will last a century. With regard to accoutrements, hardly any excuse ought to be admitted; it being almost always in the power of every one to obtain them. And let it be impressed on the mind of every person enrolled, that without accoutrements, his arms will often be entirely useless to him.

The Commander in Chief is happy to find, that since the regulation has been established, for annually completing the Company Muster-rolls on the first Tuesday in May, the returns of the Militia have been more perfect and regular. From the general observance of this excellent arrangement, the past year, the annual returns of every Brigade (except one) has been duly received; and he has not a doubt but the same attention will be paid to this useful regulation the coming season. The importance of an accurate enroll- ment, must be obvious to every one; and the Commander in Chief is fully satisfied, that the Company officers, under