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In a fuller manner than before to direct & authorize you to reduce the strength of such other Corps & to lessen or dissolve such establishmts as You sl judge unnecessary for the Service. And in ye exec of these & otr Spial orders from us You are to consider yourself as exclusively subject to our Authy & responsible to us alone for the exercise of it.
D 13 May 1782

That Complt well knew that Deft wod carry these orders strictly into execution,