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CATALOG NUMBER VC 2315 B
OBJECT NAME statement
DATE ?
AUTHOR
RECIPIENT [Pierre Van Cortlandt]
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE General Heath, General Baron de Steuben, General Knox
PLACES
KEYWORDS organization of state societies
7 months pay of our several grades, respective / -ly, and deduct the same from the balance / which shall be found due to us on / the final liquidation of our accounts / for which this shall he your Warrant.
That the members of the Several / State Societies, afsemble as soon as / may be, for the choice of their President / and other offices; and that the Presidents / correspond together, and appoint a meeting / of Officers, who may be chosen for each / state, in order to pursue such further / measures , as may be judged necessary /
That the General officers, and / the Offices delegated to represent the / several corps of the Army subscribe to the / Institution of the General Society; for / themselves, and their constituents, in the / manner and form before prescribed
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That
General Heath
General Baron de Steuben, and
General Knox
Be a committee to wait on his Excellency / the Commander in Chief, with a Copy / of the Institution, and request him to / honor, the society, by placing his name / at the head of it.
That Major General Heath second / in command in the Army be, and / hereby is desired to transmit copies of / the Institution, with the proceedings, there / -on, to the commanding Officers of the / Southern Army; the senior Officer in / each State, from Pennsylvania to / Georgia inclusive, and to the comm / -anding Officer of the Rhode Island Line, / requesting them, to communicate the / same, to the Officers, under them
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Several commands, and to take / such measures, as may appear to / them necessary, for expediting the / Establishment, of their State Societies / and sending a delegation, to repre / -sent them, in the first general / meeting to be holden on the first / Monday in may A.D. 1784
The meeting then adjourned / without day
Steuben
Maj: Gen [President]
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Gen. SteubenTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
