[Kno]w Y[e,] That having been d[uly] [electe]d to the office of Quarter Master Sergeant Second—— Cohort of the [of t]he Militia of the State of , I, , Governor [of] said , for, and on behalf of the People of said , do com[mis]sion him Quarter Master Sergeant of said Cohort—— to take rank from the 3d— [day] of June 1842. He is, therefore carefully and diligently to [dis]charge the duties of said office, by doing and performing all manner [of t]hings thereunto belonging; and I do strictly require all officers and [sold]iers under his command to be obedient to his orders; and he is to [obey] such orders and directions as he shall receive from time to time, [from] his Commander-in-Chief or his superior officer.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of to be affixed. Done at , this 27th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty threeand of the Independence of the , the sixty-Seventh.