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Sands Livingston & Company, fl. 1782 Instructions to the issuing commissaries

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01496 Author/Creator: Sands Livingston & Company, fl. 1782 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 20 July 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 26.1 cm, Width: 20.6 cm Order a Copy

Marked "copy." Writes, "All Issuing Commissaries are hereby directed to request the Commanding Officers of Regiments, Detachments, and Smaller Parties, to make regular Returns on clear paper, and large enough to take proper receipts thereon." Adds, "Received of the Contractors for the moving Army, one hundred Rations in full of all species for the above Return."

Sands Livingston & Company, fl. 1782

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