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Projekt	Dansk Vestindien
Arkivskaber	Generalguvernementet
Arkivserie	Kopibog for skrivelser til kongen
Indhold	1816 - 1826

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Main text	Thomas Smith and second lieutenant Josias Smith, rank in the army and ensign.

Report
Report number	No. 3
Date	02-11-1816
Copybook number	21
Main text	To the King! Most humbly, I have the honor, hereby to forward the entry and departure list for the 3rd West Indian infantry companies for the month of October. –

Report
Report number	No. 4
Date	11-11-1816
Copybook number	22
Main text	To the King! On the occasion of the repatriated report on the citizens’ militia on the West Indian Islands, I most humbly dare to propose to Your Royal Majesty, that when the city militia commander bears rank of lieutenant colonel, it almost seems necessary that the vice governor general should have a higher rank, add hereto the anomaly that 1st government counselor Smith as state counselor ranks above him and even that, which is in lesser harmony, the judge of the civil court on the West End, Behagen, whom Your Majesty recently, most graciously granted rank of state counselor. Since lieutenant colonel v. Stabel furthermore is known to Your Majesty Himself as a righteous and brave officer, it is with even more confidence that I most humbly risk to propose him for rank of colonel.- Lieutenant colonel v. Holten is almost of even seniority with the vice governor general and his official position as commandant on St. Thomas makes it desirable, partly because of foreigners, that he is equipped with a notable rank in the army, for which reason I most humbly apply to Your Royal Majesty’s grace if he could be granted rank of colonel, naturally, however, with lesser seniority than lieutenant colonel v. Stabell.

Report
Report number	No. 5
Date	14-11-1816
Copybook number	23
Main text	To the King! A new example of insubordination akin to that of H. Holtermann’s has appeared on St. Thomas. Baron Lucas de Bretton, Jr. has refused to do military service due to his nobility privileges and after my order of September 22nd, 1816, which may be found among the attachments, was made known to him, he persists in his refusal. Since, however, the militia regulations, which must remain the law of the colonies until Your Majesty commands otherwise, has not specifically named nobles as exempt from defense duty, and performance of militia duty is a condition of every white man’s presence on the islands, the privileges must be considered to have been vacated by the special law in this case for a nobleman, who wishes to dwell in the colonies, for which it is required of everyone, regardless of his class, according to the governor general’s rules’ 6th paragraph, which is made public, to dutifully and unfaltering obey his commands, and I therefore do not believe I would have exceeded the authority most gracefully entrusted me

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