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¦            " Two picquets from each brigade to advance to-night, thofe of
" the right brigade to the redoubt on the right, under the com-" mand of Colonel Wilmott.—Two picquets of the left brigade to " advance to the redoubts on the left, under the command of Ma-"jorPrevofl.—Two picquets of the center brigade to advance to «' the redoubt in the center, to be commanded by the eldeft Cap-" tain of the picquets.—Whenever a Drummer may be fent from " the town of Louifbourg, he mall be flopped by the firfl centries " of whatever advanced pofl he may come to, and the Officer " commanding at that pofl will fend the letter or letters to the " General, keeping the Drummer fo that he cannot fee any of " our works, or the camp, till the anfwer from the General is " returned. If the Governor mould fend an Officer with a letter, " who may fay he is ordered to deliver his difpatches to the Gene-" ral himfelf, and will not give them to any one elfe, he will not, " on any account whatfoever, be permitted to advance through " any of our pofls, but fhall be kept till he delivers his difpatches, " and remain there for an anfwer; or, if he perfifls in not fending " them, he fhall be kept at the out-pofls, where he cannot fee " our works or camp, and the Officer commanding the pofl to " fend a report of it to the General.
" A market to be eflablifhed at the center of the line, in the " rear of the 47th and 26. battalion of the Royal Americans: no " provifions, or liquors of any kind, fhall be permitted to be fold " at any place but the fixed market. If any regiments, by accident, " are in want of provifions, though the two days' proviiions when " the regiments landed, and the fix days they received fince, are for " this day inclufively, they mufl fend to the landing-place to re-" ceive what they want immediately, giving receipts for it to Mr. " Goldthrap, agent-vidtualler, till the covering is made for laying " in the magazines; and the quantity mufl hereafter be accounted Vol. I.                                     A a                                   " for
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