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Continental Congress Motion on Officers Holding Brevet Commissions, [26 May 1783]

Continental Congress
Motion on Officers Holding Brevet Commissions

[Philadelphia, May 26, 1783]1

Resolved That the officers at present holding brevet commissions in the army be intitled to the pay and emoluments of the ranks which they respectively hold.

AD, Papers of the Continental Congress, National Archives.

1. The motion is undated, but it is printed in the Journals under date of May 26, 1783.

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    “Continental Congress Motion on Officers Holding Brevet Commissions, [26 May 1783],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0240. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 365.]