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Signed: By order of Congress, [blank] president.
Imprint supplied from Evans.
Evans 15138
Journals of the Continental Congress, 105
LC copy signed in ms.: John Hancock. Annotated on verso: Duplicates.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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01/01/1776
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