Head-Quarters, New-York, June 23, 1776.

Mutual complaints having been made by the Armourers and Soldiers respecting the repairing of Arms, the Officers of the several Regiments are earnestly called upon to examine their men, and turn out all those who can work to any advantage in the Armourer’s shop, though they should not be complete workmen; and to prevent further uneasiness, the several Captains are to inspect the Arms of their Companies, and either themselves, or by some persons for whom they will be answerable, have the defective Arms sent to the Armourers, when the master-workman will give a receipt for them, the same Officer in like manner attending to the return of the Arms, and to make report if the Armourers fail in their work. The honour and safety of the Army depends so much upon a strict attention to the state of the Arms, that the General hopes no pains will be spared upon this head.

A detachment, consisting of one Lieutenant-Colonel, one Major, six Captains, twelve Subalterns, eighteen Sergeants, eighteen Corporals, six Drums and Fifes, and three hundred Privates, to parade to-morrow morning, at the Grand Parade, at eight o’clock, with their Arms, Ammunition, and Blankets, to have four days’ Provisions, there to receive their orders from General Putnam. Lieutenant-Colonel Jacobs and Major Colbourne to be the Field Officers of the above detachment.

The Sentries at the Laboratory and Artillery Park to be doubled every night until further orders. The Brigade Majors will strengthen these Guards with an addition of men for that purpose.

Major Trumbull being promoted, Adjutant Peck, of Colonel Huntington’s Regiment, to act as the Brigade-Major to General Spencer’s Brigade till further appointment is made.

Head-Quarters, New-York, June 24, 1776.

The Guard on the Prisoners at the City-Hall is to be strengthened every night as the last, so as to make up one hundred men, forty being required from the several Brigades.

The General Court-Martial now sitting to assemble at the house where the Provost is kept, till further orders.

Head-Quarters, New-York, June 25, 1776.

The Militia Officers of the adjoining Provinces who are to reinforce this Army are, upon their arrival with their Troops, to make report immediately to the Brigadier-General, or the Officer commanding their respective Corps, who is to make report once in two days to the Commander-in-Chief.

The Adjutant-General’s Office will be removed this afternoon to a small brick house, one of the Offices belonging to Head-Quarters. The Brigade Majors are requested to attend there punctually hereafter, at eleven o’clock, except those at a distance, who may send an Adjutant; but the orders will not be given to any person of less rank in future.

Head-Quarters, New-York, June 26, 1776.

Agreeable to a Resolve of the honourable the Continental Congress, no certificates of expenses are to be given in future by any but Brigadiers, Quartermasters and their Deputies, or a Field Officer on a march, or Officer commanding at a detached post.

The remainder of Colonel Wayne’s Regiment under command of Lieutenant Colonel Johnston, are to embark for Albany on Saturday next. The Quartermaster is to provide Vessels and the Commissary-General Provisions for their passage. Colonel Johnston will apply to the Adjutant-General for particular instructions, and for an order on General Schuyler for Arms when he arrives at Albany.

Colonel Johnston is to appoint one or more (as the case may require) diligent Officers of his Corps, to take charge of such men as are now here belonging to the Regiment in Canada, and deliver them to” their several Colonels or Commanding Officers; passage and provisions to be furnished as above.

The Commanding Officers of the several Regiments, whether in camp or detached posts, are as soon as possible to return into the Adjutant-General’s Office the names of their several Officers, their ranks, and the dates of theit respective Commissions, in order that the same may be forwarded to Congress.

Joseph Hulbert, of Captain Park’s Company, and late Colonel Larned’s Regiment, and Nathaniel Thompson, of Captain Peters’s Company, Colonel Read’s Regiment, having been tried by a Court-Martial whereof Colonel Parsons was President, and found guilty of desertion, are sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes each on their bare backs, which sentence the General confirms, and orders to be executed at the usual time and place.

Head-Quarters, New-York, June 27, 1776.

Several persons having been detained by Sentries, notwithstanding their having given the countersign at night, and others in the day time on the wharves, on a pretence of their not having passes, the General forbids such practices; and any Soldier convicted of them in future will be punished. Officers of Guards to be careful, in posting their Sentries, to make them acquainted with this Order.

After Orders. —Thomas Hickey, belonging to the General’s Guard, having been convicted by a General Court-Martial whereof Colonel Parsons was the President, of the crimes of “sedition and mutiny, and also of holding a treacherous correspondence with the enemy, for the most horrid and detestable purposes, ” is sentenced to suffer death. The General approves the sentence, and orders that he be hanged to-morrow at eleven o’clock.

All the Officers and men off duty belonging to General Heath’s, Spencer’s, Lord Stirling’s, and General Scott’s Brigades, to be under arms on their respective parades, at ten o’clock to-morrow morning, to march from thence to the ground between General Spencer’s and Lord Stirling’s encampment, to attend the execution of the above sentence. The Provost-Marshal immediately to make the necessary preparations, and to attend on that duty to-morrow.

After Orders. —Each of the Brigade-Majors to furnish the Provost-Marshal with twenty men from each Brigade, with good Arms and Bayonets, as a guard on the prisoner to and at the place of execution.

Head-Quarters, New-York, June 28, 1776.

The unhappy fate of Thomas Hickey, executed this day for mutiny, sedition, and treachery, the General hopes will be a warning to every soldier in the Army to avoid those crimes, and all others, so disgraceful to the character of a soldier, and pernicious to his country, whose pay he receives and bread he eats. And in order to avoid those crimes, the most certain method is to keep out of the temptation of them, and particularly to avoid lewd women, who, by the dying confession of this poor criminal, first led him into practices which ended in an untimely and ignominious death.

Officers are, without delay, to inspect the state of the Ammunition which the men have, and get their Arms in good order for service, and strongly to inculcate upon all Sentries, especially on night duty, the greatest vigilance and attention; the Soldiers, on their part, to be very attentive and obedient to these orders, as a carelessness and neglect may be of the most fatal consequence.

No persons to be permitted to inspect the Works without leave in writing.

The General requests the Colonels of the several Regiments not to depend wholly upon their Officers in complying with the above order respecting the Arms and Ammunition of the Soldiers, but to pay particular attention to the matter themselves, it being at this juncture of the greatest importance.

After Orders. —It is not from any distrust of the vigilance or spirit of the inferior officers (as he has the greatest confidence in them) that the General recommends to the Colonels an attention to the Arms and Ammunition of their respective Regiments, but that every Officer, from the highest to the lowest, when the hour of attack seems fast approaching, may exert himself in this necessary duty; and it is particularly recommended, from the Brigadier-Generals to the Ensigns, to give it the utmost attention.