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encouraged so dangerous a procedure. The peaceable return of the company to their duty in the regiment, is however, a favorable presage that nothing more of so pernicious a principle will discover itself on any future occasion.

It is expected and enjoined, that every soldier, but especially every officer, absent from his duty at the regimental reviews without good and sufficient cause, will be prosecuted for disobedience of orders, without favor or partiality.

The B. Gen. observes in some of the regiments a deficiency in the article of music. He recommends to the officers of companies, a particular attention to this useful and ornamental object. After selecting the most proper subjects to be found in each company for musicians, he advises that they be sent to some convenient place to be agreed on by the field officers of the regiment, or where it may be convenient, by those of two adjacent regiments, there to be instructed the approaching winter season, in the music of the drum and fife, by some drum-major & fife-major, or other fit person or persons who may be found qualified for the purpose. And it is specially recommended to the field-officers to make a point of superintending this business. Much may be done by their united execution. The burthen[?], if borne by themselves, when divided, will not be heavy -- but the fines which ought to be recovered in the companies for nonattendance at musters, would go a great way towards this necessary expence. And such an appropriation would