IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF

The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
{KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}
THOMAS E. BRAMLETTE,
GOVERNOR OF SAID COMMONWEALTH.
To all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

Know Ye, That Francis Rauth — having been duly appointed to the office of
second Lieutenant (vice R. C. Steen promoted)

In the 1st Independent Battery Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia, organized under the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth, and to be mustered into the service of the United States:

NOW KNOW YOU, That, by the powers vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of said State, and reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor, fidelity, and ability, I do, by these presents Commission you as 2^nd Lieutenant as aforsaid, for the term of three years unless sooner discharged, upon condition that you take the oath indorsed hereon, within ten days from receipt hereof, sending a certificate thereof to General Headquarters; and I do hereby authorize and require you to discharge, all and singular, the duties and services appertaining to your said office, agreeably to law and general regulations, and to obey such orders and instructions as you shall, from time to time, receive from your superior officers.

{SEAL OF KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and caused the seal of the State of Kentucky to be affixed, at Frankfort, the twenty ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=four and in the eighty=eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Thos E Bramlette

BY THE GOVERNOR:
E. L. VanWinkle, Secretary of State.
By Jas R Page
Asst Secty

Commonwealth Office — WM. E. HUGHES, State Printer.

OATH.

I Francis Rauth do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Kentucky, and will discharge, all and singular, the duties and services appertaining to the office of Second Lieutenant in the Kentucky Volunteer Militia, agreeably to law and general regulations, and will obey such orders and instructions as I shall from time to time receive from the proper officers.

[...]

Before me, personally appeared the above Francis Rauth and made the oath above written, and signed the same in my presence.

Capt Danl W Glassie
Comdg 1" Ky Batty
May 26 A. D. 1864.

{UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.
KENTUCKY}

Head-Quarters Ky. Volunteers,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Frankfort, May 7 —, 1864

Francis Rauth is entitled to act and receive pay under this Commission from the date of its actual receipt and acceptance by him, or of his actual entry on duty under the same after its receipt, provided R C Steen has at the time been actually relieved from duty with his command. The Commanding Officer of the Regiment will endorse hereon a certificate of the date of actual relief from duty of said Steen and the receipt of said Rauth of this Commission, his acceptance of the same, or his entry upon duty hereunder. These facts should also be stated upon the muster for pay rolls of the next ensuing periodical muster.

John Boyle
Adjutant General Kentucky Volunteers.