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�Division Orders. 8. Division Militia June 6, 1794. The late orders for electing a Brigadier General to the 1. Brigade of the 8. Division, having, from various causes, failed of effect [lined out: in the object for which they were issued], Major General Lithgow is pleased to order the Field Officeers of the 1. Brigade of the said Division [lined out: aforesaid], to assemble at the dwellinghouse of Orchard Cook Esq. Innholdeer in New-castle, on Tuesday the twenty-sixth day of August next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, then and there to elect a Brigadier General to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of B. Gen. Dearborn, in the [lined out; on the] command of the 1. Brigade of the 8. Division aforesaid. The Senior Officer preesent will preside at the election, and make report to the Major General, as soon as may be thereafter.--The Commanding Officers of Regiments will be answerable that this order is regularly + seasonably communicated to each of the other Field Officers of the Regiments they respectively command. As the time appointed by the present militia Law for examination of arms, [?] in companies, had elapsed before the Blank muster Rolls for the 1. Brigade arrived, the M. General directs that each of [unreadable lined out] the Companies in the 1. Brigade of the Division be called together on Tuesday the 20. day of August next, in order to make the examination of arms + perfect the Muster Rolls conformable to the Blanks furnished herewith, [lined out: is directed] by the Militia Law aforesaid is directed to be done on the first Tuesday of May, [lined out: annually]. And the Commanding Officers of Regiments and Companies will see this order carried into punctual execution. During the present state of the Division, the Major General directs that all returns of Regiments in the 1. Brigade be made directly to the Deputy Adjutant General, who will, under present circumstances, receive them without being digested into a Brigade Return. And he calls upon the Commanding Officers of Regiments to see [lined out: make out (illegible)] that the Annual Return required by law, [lined out: (illegible)] is collected, made out + sent in, without delay. [signature] H. Sewall D. A. Genl. 8: Division Copy of this paragraph sent to Portland to be printed.