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- GLC#
- GLC02542.19-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 27, 1799
- Author/Creator
- McHenry, James, 1753-1816
- Title
- to William North
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 32.5 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written in a secretarial hand and signed by McHenry as Secretary of War to Brigadier General North as Adjutant General of the Provisional Army during the Quasi War. McHenry reminds North that the law organzing the Provisional Army states the Adjutant General shall be the ex-officio assistant Inspector General. Since Alexander Hamilton has been called to serve as Inspector General, North is to consider himself under Hamilton's orders.
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