Authorization to Call Up Militia: Page #3

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ration shall not exceed the amount of eight cents.

    The county lieutenants are also [poss cut off word to]

direct the said rangers to be mustered upon entering and leaving the service, and the officers commanding the said rangers are to make oath to the truth of their muster roll

    That muster rolls, and abstracts 

for the pay and rations of the said rangers are to be made out and certified by the county lieutenants-- who are to transmit the same to the War Office, for examination and payments and also their powers of attor- ney to receive the money.

    You will keep the said ranger

in constant activity in such directions, as may best serve to secure the inhabitants, an[d] to give information of the approach of the indians.

    You will report to me and the com-

manding general of the troops, in writing, the number you may have called out by virtue of this authority, and arrangements you have made