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Committee County of Fincastle
and the officers so appointed
shall immediately proceed to enlist their men in the
following proportions, that is to say, the Captain forty
and each of the subalterns fifteen which company
when complete shall be viewed by two of the field officers
of the militia of the said County at some convenienet place
to be appointed by the Captain of such Company and
two other Companies in the Counties of Augusta and
Botetourt to augment the Garrison at the mouth of the
great Kanhawa and Wheeling to be under the command
of two Captains four Lieutenants two Ensigns and one
Sergeants and each Company to be allowed a Drummer
and Fifer That one of the said Companies consist of one
hundred men rank and file and be under the command
of one Captain three Lieutenants one Ensign and four
Sergeants and the other of the said Companies to consist of
fifty men rank and file and be under the command of one
Captain one Lieutenant one Ensign and three Sergeants
which said several captains and subalterns shall be
appointed as follows, to wit, the Committee of the said
County of Augusta shall appoint one Captain two
Lieutenants and one Ensign and the Captain shall raise
twenty three men the first Lieutenant eighteen and the
Ensign thirteen which shall compose the company to
be stationed at the mouth of Wheeling and the other
Lieutenant shall also be appointed by the said Committee
and shall enlist twenty men and join the company to be
raised in the County of Botetourt and shall ranks as second
Lieutenant and the committee for the said County of
Botetourt shall appoint one Captain two Lieutenants
and one Ensign and the Captain shall enlist thirty men
the first Lieutenant twenty five the third Lieutenant
eighteen and the Ensign thirteen and be it farther
ordained that the Committees for the said Counties of
or any two or more members of each of the said committees depuled by them
Augusta and Botetourt shall view the said Companies
when complete at some convenient place to be appointed by