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� The manifest advantage resulting from battalion musters for improvement in tactics, is an urgent motive for assembling the militia in such booies in preference to smaller detachments, whenever it can be done without too great a sacrifice of the convenience of the troops. In the case of such musters, among other advantages, the parade will be dignified with a battalion standard, the display of which to any lefs detachment cannot consistently be granted. And, for the information of the officers and men, it is hereby made complicit, that whenever a regiment is assembled, whether it compose one or two battalions, it is entitled to both its standards, and whenever the number of troops collected, being parts of one or more regiments, is sufficient to form but one battalion, only one standard is to be displayed; but no battalion colors are to be allowed to any inferior collection of infantry. This to be considered a standing regulation.

   As the presence of a General Officer has been found to give emulation and confidence to the militia at their public parades, the Major General recommends to each of the Commanding Officers of Brigade within the Division, to give their attendance at the several musters within their respective commands, whenever they may compose battalions or regiments; in all other cases, to direct that they be under the superintendence of field-officer.
   The several select companies will be assembled for the purposes above mentioned with the nearest battalion or regiment