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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 Compa

nies 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.
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     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.[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

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