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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1781
On report of the committee appointed to report the number of men, &c.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the legislature of each State to appoint one or more places at which the recruits thereof shall rendezvous, to supply such recruits with provisions from the time of their being mustered until they shall join the army; and to give notice of the place
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or places so appointed to the Commander in Chief, or the commanding officer of the southern department, who, upon receiving such notice, will send to each place of rendezvous a judicious, faithful officer, whose duty it shall be to muster the recruits and forward them to the places of their destination; to keep a size-roll of all the men he shall muster, and give a copy thereof to the officer commanding the recruits sent forward as aforesaid; to transmit weekly a copy of the roll to the executive of the State for which the recruits are mustered; and, upon mustering a recruit, to certify to the person producing him, the class, town and county for which he was engaged to serve, which certificate shall be full
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evidence that au able-bodied man has been mustered and received.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Ezekiel Cornell, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, VI, folio 371. A copy by Charles Thomson is on folio 373.
A letter of December 4 from the President of New Hampshire to the delegates of that State in Congress was read, as the indorsement shows, on this day, and referred to a committee, consisting of Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [Abraham] Clark, Mr. J[oseph] Jones and Mr. [Arthur] Middleton. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 40, II, folio 137.
A letter, of 15, from the Legislature of New Jersey to their delegates in Congress was read, as the indorsement shows, and referred to the committee appointed to confer with the Commander in Chief. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 68, folio 587.]
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