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Division Orders, 8th Division Militia, June 6, 1794.

The late Orders for electing a Brigadier General to the 1[st] Brigade of the 8 [th] Division, having from various causes failed of effort, Major General Lithgow is pleased to order the Field Officers of the Brigade of the Division to assemble at the Dwelling House of Orchard Cook Esq., innholder in Newcastle 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.Genl. Dearborn, in the command of the 2. Brigade of the 8. Division aforesaid. The senior Officers present will preside at the election and make report to the Major General, as soon as may be thereafter. -- The Commanding Officers of the Regiments will be answerable that this order is regularly & reasonably 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 1st Brigade arrived, the M[ajor] General Directs that each of the Companies in the 1st Brigade of the Division be called together on Tuesday the 26 day of August next in order to make the examination of arms & perfect the Muster Rolls conformable to the Blanks furnished herewith as by the Militia Law aforesaid is directed to be done on the first Tuesday of May. 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 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 that the annual Return required by law is collected, made out & sent in without delay.

H. Sewall D.A. Genl., 8th Division

Copy of this paragraph sent to Portland to be printed.