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vacancies may be filled, and the Officers elect, be duly commissioned and qualified as speedily as possible.

In performing so requisite a part of their duty, the said Colonels and Commanding Officers, will be particularly careful, to specify in their returns, not only the name of the person elected, but likewise his rank, his place of abode, the date of his election and the contingency which occasioned his being elected, agreeably to the printed forms, that have been heretofore distributed throughout the Division, by the Deputy Adjutant General.

A frequent and attentive perusal of the present militia law, and a due observance of the duties thereby required, more especially, such parts of the same law, as respect the arms and equipments of the Militia, and the annual and occasional returns to be made, of the state of Brigades, Regiments and Companies, are at this time, earnestly recommended and particularly enjoined on all, whom it may more immediately concern.

The Major General requests the Division to be assured,