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Captain Arthur Crozier

Sir

You will please to t embody
ten of your [choicest?] the most effective men of your
Company, well equipt with Arms, And
Ammunition, and provisions, and proceed
to make immeadiate ^& diligent search after the
Murderers of a certain Ballad, Coffey,
and one other person whose name
is unknown to me - You will take
every necessary measure to have the
perpetrators apprehended- And further
I do authorize you to call on all off=
=icers both Civil & military, to be [illegible]
and assisting at your request, to grant
you the every necessary support, for the appr
ehension of the said Villians & Murderors [sic]

Given in Knoxville this 25th July 1799