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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 --THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1783
A letter, of the 15th, from the Wax Office, was read, accompanied with one of the same date, from Brigadier General O. H. Williams, representing that the present state of the army, and the late arrangement of brigadiers to districts render it improbable that Brigadier Williams should obtain any command, and expressing a wish, that he may be permitted to retire with the emoluments allowed to retiring officers; Whereupon,
Resolved, That Brigadier General O. H. Williams be permitted to retire from service with the emoluments allowed by the acts of Congress to supernumerary officers.3
[Note 3: 3 This letter of the War Office is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, I, folio 109.]
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