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The first authority given by the Governor to any person to recruit colored men in Massachusetts, was dated Feb. 7; and the regiment; was filled to the maximum May 14, in less than one hundred days. Before its organization was completed, there being so many colored men anxious to enlist, it was decided to raise another regimente case of the batteries here spoken of, the President had given his authority, and four lieutenants had been commissioned in each of the companies.
But, on the 14th of May, a letter was received by His Excellency from the Adjutant-General of the army, saying, that the ruling of the Department has been not to give the permission (fd the Adjutant-General to write to the Adjutant-General of the army, and represent the case to him; which he did on the same day. Referring to the letter of the 14th of May, from which we have quoted, he was directed by the Governor to put this direct question:—
Whether, when a battery is full and under orders to march, the a