Pendleton's statement of the rules for the duel

1. The parties will leave town tomorrow morning about five o’clock, and meet at the place agreed on. The party arriving first shall wait for the other.
2. The weapons shall be pistols not exceeding eleven inches in the barrel. The distance ten paces.
3. The choice of positions to be determined by lot.
4. The parties having taken their positions one of the seconds to be determined by lot (after having ascertained that both parties are ready) shall loudly and distinctly give the word "present" - If one of the parties fires and the other hath not fired, the opposite second shall say one, two, three, fire, and he shall then fire or lose his shot. A snap or flash is a fire.

Note: The pistols used were duelling pistols owned by Hamilton. He had never used them, but Burr actually had in a previous duel. Also, they were the guns Hamilton’s son had previously used in the duel in which he was killed.