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You to reduce the strength of such other corps & to lessen or dissolve such establishmts of it, as You shall judge unnecessary to the service, & in the exec of these & such other special orders as You have recd from us You are to consider yourself as exclusively subject to our Authority & responsible to us alone for the exec of it.

We are, Sir
Yr most obt &c
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