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Eliza and Mary in those days, overland, when the 

 Government could get no reply to applications for ten- 

 ders to keep the ferry over 66 creek. 



5. — The east bank district extending from Overwinning 

 to Christina's Lust on the Berbice River, and including 

 Pin. Providence, Everton, Friends, and Highbury. 



6. — The middle district from Christina's Lust, includ- 

 ing both banks upwards to Fort Nassau. 



7. — The upper district from Fort Nassau upwards as 

 far as the river was inhabited. 



8. — The west bank district from New Berensteyn to 

 the upper bank ot Kabour Creek. 



9. — The lower west bank district from the lower bank 

 of Kabour Creek to Rosignol. 



10. — The west sea coast district extending from Rosig- 

 nol to the Abary Creek. 



To facilitate communication with Fort St. Andries 

 along the sea coasts, flag stations were erected at 

 various places with flagstaffs 60 feet high, and a code 

 of signals — a plan of Major Ratterij's — adopted so that 

 they could tell at the Fort if any disturbance 

 had arisen. On the west coast there was a station 

 on each of the following places : — No. 8, Bath, Lovely 

 Lass beyond Hopetown, Lot 28, Weldaad, and the Abary 

 Creek. On the east coast the stations were on Susannah, 

 Industry, East Lothian, and at the Devil's Creek. 



For service in tbe militia, an age limit was fixed — men 

 between the ages of sixteen and fifty only being re- 

 quired to serve. Each man, the officers excepted, had to 

 provide himself with a musket capable of carrying 

 an one ounce ball, cross belts, cartouch box to con- 

 tain twenty-four cartridges, two flints, a pricker 



