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but the highly responsible situation
obliges him to enforce due sub
bordination & to suport every
officer in the execution of
his duty on all occasions. the
charge & specification which
Cap^t Lewis has been found Guilty
plased his life in the mercy
of the Court this curcumstance
alone to a feeling mind requires
no other reprofe - The Comman-
der in Chief therefor orders that
Cap^t W^m Lewis be immediately
liberated from his arrest and
take charge of his Company