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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
Colo. Pickering having been appointed by the Honorable Congress Q.M. Gen'l to the Army of the United States he is to be Obeyed and Respected as Such
Henry Emanuel [?] Esq is also appointed Commissary of Forage As the Direction of the Waggon Department is a Charge of great Importance (in Foreign Armies) Generally Intrusted to a Field officer of the Line) And as it is Thought the Service will be Benefited by a Similar Practice in our army. Major Cogswell of the 1st Massachusetts Regiment is appointed W Master to the Maine Army and is to be Obeyed as Such