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the Major-General of the Division) is pleased to direct, that the facings and under-clothes of each regiment of Infantry within this Brigade, shall be white[underlined], with plain white metal buttons; that the coat shall be lappelled, and cut with a military air, with shirts extending a little below the knee, to be hooked up, & to shew a white lining; that the width of the facings shall not exceed two inches and an half, the cuff to be round of the same width (open in the seam under the hand to be fastened with a hook and eye) with four buttons thereon, and the same number on the pocket flaps. And the epaulets[underlined] of the Officers to be silver[underline] That the coats of the Drummers & Fifers of each regiment aforesaid, be of white cloth (corresponding with the colour of the facings of the regiment) and faced with dark blue (the ground of the regiment) to be cut in the same fashion & to have the same kind of buttons with those of the regiment, & the lappels, cuffs & pocket flaps to be decorated with a narrow tasty binding; their under clothes also to be white. The Drum & Fife majors to be distinguished by two worsted shoulder-knots, of the intermixed colours of the ground & facing of their clothes.

That the facings of the Artillery of the Brigade be scarlet, with plain yellow metal buttons, and the under-clothes