Will your Majesty decide, according to the clear statement of this relation, what you desire to be reduced, and the reduction will be carried out, in accordance with your royal order; and the said effort will be made immediately, in order to assure this expense, as it certainly shall be reduced from now on.
[_Marginal note_: "Join to this section what was written to him, and bring them here this afternoon.

What you write in this section has been caused by some misunderstanding.

In order that you may understand it better, and that what is advisable be done, three points are to be noted by you.

The first is in regard to the number of men who have the title of officer.

If such offices are those of the old men--that is, those offices that were introduced, and which have always existed, since the creation of the infantry [there], and which have always been filled by such men--there shall be no innovation.