From George Washington to William Livingston, 12 January 1781
To William Livingston
Head Quarters New Windsor Janry 12. 1781
Dear Sir:
I have been honored with your Excellencys Letter of the 20th of Decr enclosing the Act for More effectually preventing Ilicit Trade &c.1—and also with your favor of the 5th Inst. covering the Act for recruiting the Regts of New Jersey.2 When the present urgent business is dispatched,3 I shall attend to the several Matters containd in them—in the Mean time I have the honor to be.
Df, in David Humphreys’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. See Livingston to GW, 28 Dec. 1780, and n.3 to that document. Humphreys had mistakenly docketed that letter “Decr 20th 1781.”
2. See Livingston to GW, 5 January.
3. GW presumably alludes to the Pennsylvania line mutiny (see Anthony Wayne to GW, 2 Jan., and the source note to the document).