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�abandoned every thing but honor at their country's call to be toyed with for a few weeks + sent home for incompetency, arising from the fact of this willfully criminal persistency in being respectingly more than 22 + 30 Years of age. Now my deal Genl not withstanding yr a very young man yourself, you cannot fine + perceive the hobble we are in + ought we not attempt to procure a modification of this rule!

I want to write you about various topics fresh in my mind when I commenced, but you now far have instructed me to have the 3 Maj Genls staffs paid + discharged next week. This idea is that they must have their monthly pay + voting, but not their utterances, What do you think of that? Will Genl. Government allow it? Will they not require us to limit their expenses to Maj. Genl. + pay it thus as Brigades? They did so in the arrested men. Maj Genl Foster of Calaif had 6 com- -panies and his charge 6 weeks + was paid only as Brig Genl. But above all this, is the quire an the seniors of them Maj. Genls. of the church in command + in line that they can demand + receive pay as such man genls. I should prefer to have them paid in full, for the army basis, if it can be reimbursed us, can it?

But I must not stop to write more

I remain very truly yrs in haste, John L. Hodsdon - Adjutant General [flourish]