KNOW YE, That having been duly elected to the office of Colonel [Se]cond Regiment Second [blank] Cohort of the of the Militia of the State of , I, , Governor of said , for, and on behalf of the People of said , do commission him Colonel of said Regiment & Cohort [blank] to take rank from the 30th day of July 1842. He is, therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duties of said office, by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging; and I do strictly require all officers and soldiers 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 three and of the Independence of the the sixty-seventh