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By order of the Commander in Chief

Wm. Donnison Adj. General Att. H: Sewall, D. A. Genl.

General ORderes, Head-quarters, Boston, December 20. 1794.

The Commander in Chief has been anxious to carry into effect, with promptness and decision, the late act of the Federal Legislature, for detaching from the Militia of this Commonwealth, eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-five[quantity underlined] men, apportioned on the several States in the Union :-- And although he has very little doubt, but his Orders to that effect have been complied with, so far as relates to detaching the men & forming them into Corps; yet he cannot account for the delay which has taken place in making the Returns.

The promptitude and readiness to action, with which the Militia of Massachusetts has ever been distinguished, leads him to think, that had the Detachment from this State been called

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+By order of the Commander in Chief
+Wm. Donnison Adj. General
+Att. H: Sewall, D. A. Genl.
+General ORderes, Head-quarters, Boston, December 20. 1794.
+The Commander in Chief has been anxious to carry into effect, with promptness and decision, the late act of the Federal Legislature, for detaching from the Militia of this Commonwealth, eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-five[quantity underlined] men, apportioned on the several States in the Union :-- And although he has very little doubt, but his Orders to that effect have been complied with, so far as relates to detaching the men & forming them into Corps; yet he cannot account for the delay which has taken place in making the Returns.
+The promptitude and readiness to action, with which the Militia of Massachusetts has ever been distinguished, leads him to think, that had the Detachment from this State been called