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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.