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will report to the commanding Officer of the Brigade, the number of companies so formed. Each commanding Officer of a Brigade, will form the detachments which shall be made from the cavalry, artillery, and other corps not regimented, into companies, if sufficiently numerous, if not, into squads. And the Brigadiers will make report of all companies and squads, which shall be formed within their respective Brigades, to their Major-Generals. In those Brigades where the detachments from the cavalry, artillery, & corps not regimented, shall be too small to form companies, the Major-Generals will unite the detachments from the several Brigades within their respective Divisions, and organize them in proportion to their numbers. And the commanding Officers of corps, will without delay, make return of the officers and men detached, in the regular channel, to the Brigadiers, and the Brigadiers will make duplicate returns, to their Major-Generals, and to the Adjutant General, as soon as may be.

The several companies of infantry, within each Brigade respectively, which shall be detached as aforesaid, shall be formed into one or more battalions, according to their numbers, making 240 men, rank & file, the ratio for a battalion, as nearly as

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