THE STATE OF MARYLAND, To Anthony Manning Esquire GREETING.
BE IT KNOWN, That reposing Especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, Courage, Good Conduct, and Attachment to the State of Maryland and the United States, you are by these Presents Constituted and Appointed Captain of a Troop of Horse attached to the tenth Regimental Cavalry District of the Militia of the State of Maryland
You are therefore carefully to Discipline the Officers and Soldiers under your Command, who are hereby strictly enjoined to obey you as their Captain And in this, and all other respects, you are diligently to discharge
the Trust committed to you by these Presents, according to the Laws and Constitution of this Sate, and of the United States, and such Rules and Regulations as under the authority therefore are or may be established. This Commission to be in force until lawfully revoked.
GIVEN at Annapolis, this twenty second day of December Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fourteen
L. W. Windsor