DORCHESTER

Par ordre de Son Excellence,

Herman Witsius Ryland.

Guy Lord Dorchester,

Captain General and Governor in chief of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and their dependencies ; Vice Admirai of the same ; General and Commander in Chief of ail His Majesty's forces in the said Provinces and in the Island of Newfoundland, etc., etc.

To Joseph Dominique Emanuel de Longueuil, Esq.

I do by thèse présents constitute and appoint you to be Lieutenant Colonel in a régiment called the Royal Canadian

Volunteers, and ot' which the commander in cliief for the time being is the Colonel, and likewise to be captain of a company in the said régiment ; you are therefore to take the said régiment as lieutenant colonel, and the said conipan}^ as captain into your care and charge, and duly to exercise as well the officers as soldiërs thereof in arms, and to use your best endeavours to keep them in good order and discipline ; and I do liereby command to obey you as their lieutenant colonel and captain respectively ; and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall receive from your colonel, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war in persuance of the trust hereby reposed in you.

Given under my hand and seal at arms at the castle of St- Lewis, in the city of Québec, this twenty- second day of Januar}', in the thirty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign, and in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.