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Proclamation. By the United States in Congress assembled : Whereas information has been received from the comptroller of the Treasury, that various certificates of final settlement issued by the commissioner for settling the accounts of the army, to the officers and soldiers of the United States, have been counterfeited by some fraudulent and wicked persons ...

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Proclamation. By the United States in Congress assembled : Whereas information has been received from the comptroller of the Treasury, that various certificates of final settlement issued by the commissioner for settling the accounts of the army, to the officers and soldiers of the United States, have been counterfeited by some fraudulent and wicked persons ...

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Offering a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest and conviction of persons guilty of forgery of certificates.
Signed and dated: Done at New-York, this second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five ... Richard Henry Lee, president. Charles Thomson, secretary.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 915 (#446); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.
Evans 19327
Journals of the Continental Congress, 446
LC copy has inscription: The foregoing published by order of His Excellency the Presdt with advice of council. E. Thompson, NY.
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01/01/1785
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United States. Continental Congress.
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
Thompson, E., 18th cent., annotator.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
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