You are hereby informed, that the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has appointed you <to the rank of> Paymaster <in the> <regiment of> in the service of the United States: to take rank as such, from the twenty second day of March 1824.—

You will, immediately on receipt hereof, please to communicate to this Department your acceptance or non-acceptance of said appointment, and, in case of accepting, you will report yourself in person to the Paymaster General of the Army United States at Washington.—