State of North-Carolina,

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We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be [intentionally blank] You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of by exercising and well disciplining the Officers and Soldiers under your Command, and by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to be obedient to your Orders

And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Directions of military Discipline, and the Laws of this State.

Witness RICHARD CASWELL, Esq; Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, in and over the said State, under his Hand, and Seal at Arms, at [intentionally blank] the [intentionally blank] Day [intentionally blank] Anno Dom 177[intentionally blank] and in the [intentionally blank] Year of our Independence.