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In the presence of the Centmillenier, if the number that the Province must provide is such as two thousand men, there are twenty Captains, who have one hundred soldiers per company, who draw lots among themselves to see who will choose first, & thus consecutively onto the others. This done, all the soldiers line up, twenty by twenty, of which the first Captain chooses the one who pleases him from the first twenty, & after him all the others according to their lot, down to the last. Coming to the other twenty, the one who had chosen the second, chooses first, & that one who had chosen the first, will take the last, & so on for all the other twenties, up to the last. In this way all the companies are equal in number & value. After that the Captains create their Dixeniers & Sergeants, & hold the form of a camp, having for each ten Centeniers a Millenier to command them, a man of middle age, valiant & of great experience. |
