[undecipherable] [undecipherable: Instructions to] [undecipherable] of the Regiment of [undecipherable: Levies]. Sir, you having been appointed a Captain in the [undecipherable] Regiment of Levies, raised in pursuance of the authority vested in the Presidents of the United States [undecipherable] [entitled an] Act for raising and adding another Regiment to the [undecipherable: Military Establishment] of the United States, and for making [undecipherable] for the protection of the frontiers— passed the third day of March [undecipherable] seven [hundred and] ninety one, are immediately to commence the Recruiting Service. And in order that there Shall be no misunderstandings respecting your Situation, you are hereby explicitly informed, that your appointment will be confirmed, and you receive a Commission accordingly on condition that you raise, on or before the fifteenth day of May next by voluntary enlistments, the number of Twenty Eight Recruits, and each of [the] Subalterns will be commissioned on the Same condition. But unless and they recruit your proportions, you will then be discharged [undecipherable] according to your ranks, for the time you have been in actual Service. The Recruits are to be engaged to serve for the term of [undecipherable: three years] from and after joining the [undecipherable: main army] at [undecipherable] and to be discharged. [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable: Recruits], and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Company, [undecipherable] to wit: a Hat a Shirt Coat a Vest — a pair of [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] Shoes — [undecipherable] — and a Stock and Clasp. The Recruits must be robust, able bodied men fit to bear the fatigues of a war campaign, not under eighteen nor more than thirty [undecipherable] of age. [The] [men] will receive the same pay [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] cases of disability received in actual service will be entitled to the Same [undecipherable] compensations. Each Recruit before he is [sworn] is to have [undecipherable] to him [undecipherable] and marks of war against inviting and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to be the administration of Justice. [No] advances either of bounty or clothing Shall be made until the Recruits Shall have been duly [undecipherable] before a Magistrate. Rations will be issued only at the places which Shall be fixed for the [undecipherable: rendezvous] of each company or Battalion. The commanding officer at each rendezvous is to sign the Returns of the Rations required and [undecipherable] and is to take up [the] said returns and make one general return [undecipherable] in this course of the [undecipherable] the daily [undecipherable]. As soon as Thirty recruits Shall be [undecipherable] at the rendezvous of any company, they are to be marched to the rendezvous of the battalion, when they will be [undecipherable] and as soon as one company Shall be assembled therein is to be marched to the frontier. — The Sum of — Dollars has been advanced to you, being the amount of [undecipherable] bounties and the [undecipherable] sum of [undecipherable] pay for yourself, and [undecipherable]