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98 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE1842. The lieutenant-colonel, whose post was to bewith the 1st battalion, had general charge andsuperintendence of the whole regiment, assistedby an additional major. The reserve battalionhad the usual proportion of officers and noncommissionedofficers appointed to it, but had noflank companies. The senior majorimmediate command of this battalion.The three companieswas to haveof the 91st which hadbeen left in St. Helena in 1839, under CaptainBlackwell, were ordered to rejoin the headquartersof the battalion on the 6thof December,1842. On leaving the island, Captain Blackwellwas presented with the following address by the"inhabitants : We, the undersigned inhabitantsof St. Helena, cannot permit her Majesty's 91stRegiment to take their final departure withoutexpressing our satisfaction at the uniform goodorder and moral conduct they have manifestedduring the six years theystation.have been on thisThose of us who witnessed the transfer ofthe government from the East India Companya measure affecting various interests and involvingvery important and, to a considerable part of thecommunity, very painful consequences cannotbut remember the high expectations created by