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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 132 (part 4)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Selectmen on behalf Orders shall be issued for an Annual muster, of the Commonalty of New Netherland, for which a plan was agreed on long ago; but respectfully represent that it is highly necessary J pound of powder to each man can be ill that your Honors do order a general Muster to afforded, as provision must be made for the take place once every year, under arms, on day of need, for which we must, above all condition that at the muster half a pound of things, prepare. Each Fatroon's establishment powder shall be given each man on the part must provide for its own defence. of the Company.