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each town shall meet together once in two years to be instructed & disciplined under the direction of a Field Officer.

It is also presumed & expected, that the several Companies of Artillery and Cavalry will not be deficient in their exertions for acquiring that knowledge & discipline which is so essential to their respectability & usefulness.

By order of Major-General Henry Dearborn, Barzillai Gannet, Aid de Camp to the Major General.

Brigade Orders; second Brigade, 8. Division, Harrington, May 27. 1797 (Inserted out of its proper place.) [all underlined]

The Commanding Officer of the second Brigade expects from the commanding Officers of Regiments & Companies, a punctual compliance with the law respecting the Annual Return.[both underlined] As he presumes that every Company has already been assembled the present month conformably to law, & a state of the arms & equipments taken (from which the Annual Return is to be made) there can exist no plea for delay. Besides the standing