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Eighth Division, 1 Brigadier-General and 1157 men, officers included.

First brigade, 733 Second Brigade, 424 [Total for Eighth Division:] 1157

Ninth Division, 733 men, officers included. First Brigade, 375 Second Brigade, 358 [Total for Ninth Division:] 733

The several Major-Generals of the Militia, will cause the detachment aforesaid, to be apportioned on the regimemts [sic], battalions and companies of infantry, cavalry and artillery, within their respective Divisions, as soon as possible. Each Commanding Officer of a regiment will form the men which shall be detached from his regiment, into one or more companies, of 64 rank and file each, as nearly as may be; and he will report to the Commanding Officer of the Brigade, the number of companies which shall be 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, and corps not regimented, shall be too small to form companies, the Major-General 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 and file, the ratio for a battalion, as nearly as may be; observing however that no battalion will consistof a greater number than 320, nor less than 160 men rank and file.

The detachment will form 3 Divisions, and 6 Brigades as follows.

[Heading] First Division, Major-General Brooks. First Brigade, to comprehend the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Plymouth, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes'-County and Nantucket, 2767 Second Brigade, Essex and Middlesex, 2612 [Total for First Division:] 5379

[Heading] Second Division, Major-General Shepard. First Brigade, Hampshire and Berkshire, 2313 Second Brigade, Worcester, 1567 [Total for Second Division is:] 3880

[Heading] Third Division, Major-General Ichabod Goodwin. First Brigade, York and Cumberland, 1469 Second Brigade, Lincoln, Hancock and Washington, 1157 [Total for Third Division is:] 2626

[Total of all three Divisions is:] 11,885

Each Division will have 1 Major-General, with two Aid de Camps, and 1 Depity-Adjutant-General.

Each Brigade, will have 1 Brigadier-General and 1 Brigade Inspector.

Each regiment, (to be composed of two battalions) will have 1 Colonel, (or Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a regiment in the line) 1 Adjutant, 1 Quarter-Master, 1 Surgeon and 1 Surgeon's Mate, 1 Sargeant-Major, 1 Quarter-Master's Sargeant, 1 Drum Major and 1 Fife-Major.

Each [The word Each, is alone in the bottom right corner of the page; it appears to be a typographical error.]