George Washington Papers

General Orders, 14 December 1781

Head Quarters Philadelphia Friday December 14 1781

By the United States in Congress Assembled.

Resolved

That in future no particular Warrants issue infavor of any officers in Actual Service in the Line of any State for Pay or Subsistence but that at all times they draw their Pay and Subsistence with the regiment to which they respectively belong from the Paymaster of such regiment.

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