State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, March session, 1778 : It is voted and resolved, that the colonels of the several regiments of militia within this state, be and they are hereby empowered to receive a sufficient number of cartridges and flints, belonging to this state, from the laboratory, or elsewhere, to furnish the captains of the several alarm and militia companies, belonging to their respective regiments which are deficient, so that each soldier in their respective companies be supplied with seventeen rounds, and with two flints, the colonels and captains giving and taking receipts for the same ...