Lot 32: (THOMSON, CHARLES)

32. (CHARLES THOMSON) A manuscript document (signed
by secretary), 2pp. 4to., [Philadelphia], Dec. 18 & 19, 1781, a copy of two resolutions the Continental
Congress extracted from the minutes. The first resolve, dated Dec. 18, concerns the recruiting service recommending "...to the Legislature of each State to appoint one or more places at such 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 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 faithfull [sic] officer, whose duty it shall be to muster the Recruits..." The second resolution, dated Dec. 19, authorizes "...the Superintendent of Finance shall find it convenient and proper to provide by Contract for supplying the Recruits at and from the places of Rendezvous until they join the Army, the States may be relieved form that duty..." Light soiling at folds, a few pinholes, otherwise very good. $300-400