To Benjamin Franklin Esquire

I do hereby authorize and empower you, to take into your Charge the County of Northampton, to dismiss all Persons who have been Commissionated by me to any Military Command, and to put other’s into their Places, and to fill up the Blank Commissions herewith delivered, with the Names of such Persons, as you shall judge fit for his Majesties Service; hereby ratifying all your Act’s and Proceedings, done in Virtue of this Power, and approving the Expences accruing thereupon. And I do further order and enjoin all Officers and Soldiers to Yeild Obedience to you, in the Execution of this Power, and all Magistrates, Sheriffs and others, in any kind of Civil Authority, and all his Majesties Liege Subjects, to be aiding and assisting to you in the Premisses. Given under my hand and Seal at Reading this 5th. Day of January 1756.