Light Infantry companies are to be immediately formed—one from each regiment—and to consist of[:] One Captain[;] Two Subalterns[;] Four Serjeants[;] One Drum[;] One Fife—and for the present Twenty five rank and file.

The honor of every regiment is so much interested in the appearance and behavior of the Light troops which are a representation of the whole Army that the General exhorts and expects the commanding officers of them will exert themselves to make a judicious choice for the formation of their respective companies—The Assistant Inspector General is to review each company and reject every man who in his opinion is not likely to answer the above ends—The General would prefer well made men from five feet six to five feet ten inches stature.

Every regiment that has at this time more than two hundred and twenty five rank and file for duty including those on command and on furlough is to give a full ninth of its number instead of twenty five for the Infantry company—and as the other regiments increase in strength and exceed this number they are to do the like invariably—When these Companies are formed they are to relieve the Troops on the Lines and do duty there by rotation in such manner as Major General Heath shall direct.

The General strictly prohibits recruiting men belonging to one state into the Regiments assigned as the Quota of another State.1