A copy of the act now enforced in the Lower Province.
3 .-- An alien law.
4 .-- The offer of a reward for the better apprehension of deserters.
If I succeed in all this, I shall claim some praise; but I am not without my fears.

I shall send you the militia act the moment it passes into a law.

The more I consider the new provisions, the more I am satisfied (giving of course every proper allowance to the disposition of the people) they are peculiarly calculated to meet the local situation of the country.

I have not a musket more than will suffice to arm the active part of the militia from Kingston westward.

I have therefore to request that the number of arms may be sent, according to the enclosed requisition, to the places therein specified, on the communication between Glengary and Kingston.
Every man capable of carrying a musket, along the whole of that line, ought to be prepared to act.