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Major-General Dearborn, and in his absence Brigadier-General Sewall, is directed to effect the foregoing organization, and to certify the numerical alteration on the Commissions of those Captains and subaltern Officers actually in office, who fall within the fifth Regiment; and the said Officers shall continue in office and hold their rank & command under said Commissions as fully as if they had been specially commissioned to command in said Regiment.

By order of the Commander in chief, Wm. Donnison, Adjutant-Genl.

Division Orders, Pittston, February 22, 1800.

Brigadier-General Sewall is requested to cause the organization of the 4. & 5. Regiments in the 2. Brigade, 8. Division, to be carried into effect, agreeable to the preceding General Order -- to certify the numerical alteration on the Commissions of Captains and Subalterns who are within the 5. Regiment for the purpose, & to operate as directed by the Genl. Order aforesaid -- and to order the election of the necessary Officers in each of those Regiments, as soon as convenience will admit.

By order of Major General Dearborn, B. Gannett, Aid de Camp.