“The person to be recommended for quartermaster must not be proposed for any other commission.
“In case the corps should be reduced after it has been once established, the officers will be entitled to half-pay.
“No man is to be enlisted above thirty-five years of age, nor under five feet five inches high. Well-made, growing lads, between sixteen and eighteen years of age, may be taken at five feet four inches.
“The recruits are to be engaged without limitation as to the period or place of their service.
“The non-commissioned officers and privates are to be inspected by a general officer, who will reject all such as are unfit for service, or not enlisted in conformity to the terms of this letter.
“In the execution of this service, I take leave to assure you of every assistance which my office can afford.
“I have, &c., &c.,
(Signed) “George Yonge.
“To Major John Doyle, on the half-pay of the late
One hundred and fifth regiment.”
The following officers were appointed to commissions in the Eighty-seventh regiment, viz.:—