[Endorsement on outer wrapper, top right:] Trenton W[undecipherable] 2 Jeby [17]99 All officers of the 1^st Regiment of Artil- -lerists and Engineers, and of the 1^st 2^d 3^d and 4^t Regiments of Infantry in the service of the United States, who are from whatever cause ab- -sent from their commands, are required with all possible expedition, to report themselves by letter to Major General Alexander Hamilton. Those officers of the aforesaid Regiments, who do not [strikethrough: respond] The officers thus called upon, will be held amenable, for any avoidable delay in reporting themselves, and those who do not report in four months, [strikethrough: will] from the date of this notification, will be presumed to have resigned their commissions