Sir:

I take the liberty of troubling your Excellency respecting my recruiting out of the drafts, and to request the favor of you Sir, to lay before the Council, whether I may or may not be allowed to enlist them for three years, or during the war. As many of them have made application to me on that head.

Should that Honorable board think it proper, for me to enlist them, agreeable to the above, will be greatly obliged to your Excellency to inform me of it by the first opportunity at Halifax.