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152 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.
Lib. H. D. Do Orders Ordered that the Armes Bullets and Shott be like- Whitehall About Armes & wise devided and parceled out proportionable to the Amunicön powder, And that one Bar” of the S'd powder be
lodged in a place oneiy and that neither the S'd Armes nor Amunicon be medied wth or made Use of Unless upon case of Invasion or insurrection wch God forbid.
Militia The following Orders and Instructions relateing Orders aud . Instructiones to the Regulating the Militia drawne forth by Order and Sign'd & Sealed by his Excency were sent to each County of the Province
By his Excency the Goverr & Councill &ca Octobr the 9th 1694.
Ordered that there be three ffield Officers Appointed in each County Vizt A Colln Lievtenant Collonell and A Major to be Cornissionated by his Execncy wth power to Appoint and Constitvte all Officers under them And Enlist Souldiers in such and so many Devisions as they shall see most proper and convenient A Troope to Consist of A Captain, Lievtennant Cornet Quarter Master, a Clerk, three Corporails, Thirty six private Troopers & a Trumpeter. A Company of ifoot to Consist of A Captain, Lievtenant, Ensigne a Clerk, three Serjants, ffour Corporalls, & two Drumers, & Seaventy two private Soldiers. That there be Dragoons Raised where they can conven iently each Troope to consist of one Capt one Lievtennant, one Cornet, a Quarter Master a Clerke three Serjants and ifour Corporails & fforty ffive Troopers And foreasmuch as it being Assembly time & all Clerks now in Town are busily p. 73 imployed in Writting Soe that Military Comissions cannot So imediately be prepared it is thereupon Ordered that the Sevrli ffield Officers now hereby Appointed doe Act as fully and Amply pursuant to the following Directions as if they had All ready Received their Comissions for the Same as likewise all Officers appointed Under them whereof all persons are to take due Notice as they will Answer the Contrary at their perills. ffield Officers hereby Appointed are as follows Vizt ffor St Maries County Sr Thomas Laurance Barnont Collonell, Capt Jno Cood Lievtent Colloneil and Majr John Cambeil Major. ffor Kent County. Mr John Hinson Collonell, Mr Hans Hanson Levetennant Collonell and Mr Thomas Smith Major. ffor An Arundeil County.
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