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to the Public. Those Corps which have not been already supplied with cannon, will be furnished as soon as suitable pieces can be cast, mounted and equipped.

That discipline in the Cavalry may be more perfect, the Officers commanding those Corps will see the propriety of inlisting only such men as own the horses they ride; and that the Cavalry may appear with due respectability, it is absolutely requisite, in some of the Troops, that greater attention be paid to the size and quality of the horses.

The Commanding Officers of Cavalry, Artillery, Cadets and Light-infantry, will observe, that the Law has regulated the numbers which compose those Corps when complete; they will therefore consider the Law as limiting them in this case, beyond which their companies cannot lawfully be encreased - neither is it for the good of the Militia, that in any case they should be augmented above the numbers prescribed.

The Commander in chief is sorry to notice some delinquencies in the annual Returns, particularly of those Corps which ought to be an example of punctuality to all the rest; he thinks, however, he shall not have occasion again to remark it, either of the Battalions or select Corps, and that in the future all the Returns will be made complete, and in due time.

Henry Jackson Esquire, is elected Major General