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to contain the names and equipments of each man. The Adjutant General will also furnish the following Officers with the new Laws, conformably to a Resolve of the General Count of the 20th. of October, 1786, directing their distribution, vir.[?]. To each General, Field and Staff Officer, and to each Captain; one copy, for the benefit of their several Corps.

The equipment and arrangement of the Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, required by the present Act being in some respects different from those directed by the former Laws, the Officers of those Corps will attend to the completion of the several alterations specified, as fast as circumstances will conveniently admit.

The Act directs every Officer to furnish himself with a Book containing the Rules of Discipline. This regulation is of the first importance to the discipline of the Militia; for by combining theory with practice, an Officer may soon become acquainted with his duty -- but without this knowledge he can never be capable of instructing others.

Under the present Law, the Militia may be mustered regimentally, once in every alternate year, and in the intermediate year, by lesser bodies. The Commanding Officers of Divisions will therefore issue their orders as speedily as possible, for mustering the Militia within their respective commands, the present season, in such Bodies as they shall judge proper, conformable to the Law, for review, inspection and