Unknown to [Congress]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10204 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter Date: 10 May 1785 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 37.7 x 22.9 cm. Order a Copy
Proposing the establishment of permanent arsenals and magazines throughout the country and a means of controlling them. Given the content, the date (two months after Knox was made Secretary of War), and the docket in Knox's hand, Henry Knox is most likely the author. The letter itself is in a secretarial hand. Followed by a 16 May 1785 order of Congress, in a secretarial hand, that "the Secretary at War devise a plan for the general regulation of the militia of the United States in such manner as to render it most respectful and least expensive to the respective States in order to ground thereon a recommendation relative to this subject to the several States." Written at the War Office. Congress at this time was in New York City. Extensive water stains. Watermarked with a crest depicting a hunting horn with the letters GR below and I Taylor.
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