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Signed: Extract from the minutes- Charles Thomson- secretary. New-York Historical copy inscribed on verso: "Gen. Gates"; in another hand- "Resolve of Congress- dated 14th April- 1779". References: Evans 16575; Journals of the Continental Congress- 265
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In Congress April 14 1779 : Whereas Congress on the twenty-first day of August last did resolve that when any persons are desirous of going within the enemy's lines they shall apply to the executive power of the state to which they belong ... Resolved that any officer who shall permit a person to go within the enemy's lines without such recommendation ... shall thereby forfeit his commission.
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Broadsides -- SY1779 no.13
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Publisher: Printed by Hall and Sellers
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1779-April-14
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1779
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1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 24 x 19 cm
