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underline FOR A BOY /underline

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To His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, and others His Majesty's Commissioners for the Management of the Affairs of the Royal Military underline Asylum. /underline

THE HUMBLE PETITION of in Behalf of the Child of Soldier in His Majesty's Regiment of

SHEWETH that the said is the lawful Child of as by the annexed Certificates will appear That*

• Here state the Service

and present Situation of the Father; the Situation of the Mother, (if living;) and Number and Age of their other Children, (if any.)

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays, that the said may be admitted into the ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM; and if this Prayer be granted, your Petitioner hereby agrees, that the said boy shall remain in the Asylum as long as the Commissioners thereof shall think fit; and that, when of proper Age, he shall be disposed of at their Discretion, as an Apprentice, or Servant; or placed, with his own free Consent, as a Private Soldier, in the Regular Army. image

image To be signed by the Parent, or Person who has Charge of the Child.