This gave the Commander-in-Chief (normally, the Governor,) and Field Officers of the Militia the power to raise an alarm, whenever either deemed it necessary for the safety of the Colony. It also stated that 'as often as any vessels shall be seen coming to, or hovering about, any part of the coast which in the joint opinion of any Captain of a Company and any Captain of a Fort, shall afford just ground to apprehend and suspect that they are the vessels of an enemy, and actuated by any hostile intention, such Captain of a Company and such Captain of a Fort, shall cojointly have power to cause a general alarm to be raised, sending immediate notice of their apprehensions or suspicions to the nearest Field Officer."
When such an alarm was raised, all males obliged to bear arms were to muster at their Parish rendezvous.
Derived from Jennifer Ingham's "Defence Not Defiance: A History of The BVRC." ISBN 0-9696517-1-6.
Itself using as a source the unique, typescript "History of The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1891 - 1933", held at the Bermuda Library, in Hamilton.