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As to his retrenching power it is made to depend partly on the instructions to Deft’s Predecessor Leslie, who was authorized to appoint psons to regulate the Depots of provisions & the providg & feeding &c. This was surely done away by the appt of Bebb.

But it is made partly also to depend on the power afterwards given to