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The detached Companies detailed from the first & third [quantities underlined] Regiments, will compose one Battalion, & be commanded by Major Joel Thompson; [name underlined] those furnished by the second & fourth [quantities underlined] Regiments, will form one other Battalion, & be commanded by Major Obadiah Witherell: [name underlined] And whenever the Major-General shall organize the Battalions into a Regiment, it will be commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant John Moor. [name underlined]

The Commanding Officers of the standing Regiments will see that the Detachment be made and enrolled by the 15. day of October next. They will also make out a Roster of the several Officers appointed to the Detachment; and also a return of the several Companies form of the men detached from their respective Regiments, and transmit them without fail [both underlined] to the Brigade-Major by the 30. day of said October, at farthest. The Captains of Artillery will be held answerable for the proportion of noncommissioned officers & matrosses required from their respective Companies; & they will transmit such returns to the Brigade Major, & will furnish such muster-rolls of the men, as are required in the case of the foot Companies.

The detached Companies will be organized by the Commandants of the permanent Regiments, who will be responsible that the men be able bodied, well armed and accoutred, and (in order that they may be assembled with convenience) that they be