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To lessen or dissolve such Establishments of it as you shall judge necessary for the Service, and in the Execution of these and such other special orders as you have received from us you are to consider yourself exclusively subject to our authority and responsible to us alone for the execution of them.

We are Sir
Your most Obedient
Humble Servants
Warren Hastings
(signed) Edwd Wheler
John Macpherson
Fort William
13the May 1782