Arthur, B. F. Official copy of minutes of Constitutional Comm. resolve (not to relax military)
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02275 Author/Creator: Arthur, B. F. Place Written: [Charleston, South Carolina] Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1860/12/30 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 26 x 20 cm Order a Copy
Written as clerk of the South Carolina Secession Convention.
In Convention
December 30 1860
Resolved
That it is the sense of this Convention that the vigor of military preparation and defence [sic], should not be relaxed; and that a copy of this resolution be immediately communicated to the Governor.
A true copy
BF Arthur
Clerk of Convention
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