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The season for discipline advances. The General Officers, with-in their respective commands, will direct the operations, & make the necessary arrangements for the musters & reviews & the field officers will be mindful to superintend the exercises of their several corps. The commanding officers of companies on whose exertions so much depends are particularly cautioned against indulgencies whereby individuals may be suffered to evade the rules and orders of the government. The complete equipment of their companies is an object which calls for their attention. Many of the arms are yet unfit for service. The law requires that their calibers shall be capable of carrying balls of eighteen to the pound. While these & many other objects claim the observation of the company officers it is expected that in no instance they will be unmindful of the obligations enjoined upon them with regard to their uniform & equipments; the implements & badges of their office must not be dispensed with.

The militia consisting of corps formed on two different establishment the one embracing all persons liable to be enrolled within a given district & the other raised at large by voluntary enlistments it frequently happens disagreements arise respecting their several rights and it being of importance to the harmony of the whole that all causes of difference should be obviated, the particular attention of the officers is called to this object. To prevent all possibility of disagreement in this respect the captains of the standing companies of foot should always keep pair and exact muster rolls distinguishing between transient and effective men so that the number of effective privates may be known with certainty at all times. It is also necessary that the captains of companies raised at large should perform with exactness all the duties required of them, particularly that they annually deliver to the commanding officers of the regiments within which their companies are raised a list of the men's names enlisted out of each regiment that it may be known who are exempted from the rolls of