Commissions of Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly [‎2r] (3/16)

THE OOTEimoB IN C©UNCI1L OF BOMBAY.
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Greeting.
E, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and Good Conduct, Do by these Presents
constitute and appoint you,
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in the Service of the East India Company, on the Bombay Establishment, to take Rank and Post, as such, from the
Day of ' iri/ One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty and
in the Army from the y^c/? < I^ a y One Thousand Eight Hundred and
fifty / You are therefore duly to exercise as well the Officers as Soldiers in Arms under you, and
to use your best endeavours to keep them in Good Order and Discipline. AND We do hereby command them
to obey you as their / You are to observe and follow all such Orders and Directions as
you shall receive, from lime to time, from Us the Governor in Council for the time being, or any other your
Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust hereby reposed in
vou!* GIVEN under Our Hands, and the Seul of the said East India- Company, HvUombay Castle,
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Sovereign Ladv Queen Victoria , by the Grace of God , of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
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Queen, Defender of the Taith, and so forth, and in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred
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h}! Order, in the Secretary's Office, ' "
Military Department;
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Colonel, "
Secretary to the Government,
Military J)ei>nrtmcnt.
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