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of men shall be enrolled not amounting to fifty privates
besides sufficient for non-commissioned Officers for any one
Company, they shall not be considered as a Company: yet as
the local circumstances of some neighbourhoods, may make it
very inconvenient for a full Company of Militia to meet weekly
for Exercise, on one and the same place, in such case, the
Officers may appoint two places, at each of which, a several
part of the Company may be mustered, not oftener than three
times out of four, so that every fourth time at least the whole
be mustered together.
That no Company be permitted to choose officers before a
sufficient number of men be enrolled to make up 50 privates
besides non-commissioned Officers.
That after enrolment in pursuance of these Resolves, no
man be permitted to leave the Company in which he shall
have been enrolled without the consent of his Captain in
writing.
That the Committee of Observation in each County make
diligent enquiry after, and transmit to the Convention, or
Council of Safety, the name of every able bodied effective
Freeman, as aforesaid in their respective County, if there shall
be any such, who shall not enrol himself, either as a Minute,
or Artillery man, or in the Militia, according to the preceding
Resolves; to the end that the Convention may take order
therein; against whom no further proceedings or measures
shall be taken, but by the future order of the Convention.
That the Committee of observation for each County shall
divide the Militia of their County into Battalions or Compa-
nies of Light Infantry, each of which Battalions to consist of
such eight Companies of Militia, as the same Committee shall
appoint; and the same Committee also assigning to each Bat-
talion one Company of Light Infantry, which Light Infantry,
shall be armed in such manner, as the Council of Safety shall
direct, and that to each of the said Battalions, there be one
Colonel, one Lieutenant-Colonel, two Majors, one Quarter
master and one adjutant who shall be appointed and commis-
sioned by the Delegates of this Province sitting in Conven-
tion, or at any time when they are not sitting in Convention,
by the Council of Safety, in the name of the Convention ;
which Officers shall rank and martial the Companies of their
respective Battalions.
That every Company of Militia be exercised one day in
every week, and that every Battalion of Militia be exercised in
Battalion, at such times and places as the Field Officers of the
Battalion shall appoint; not oftener than once in every month,
nor seldomer than once in every two months, the day of exer-
cise in Battalion being accounted as the day of exercise for
that week.
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