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In Congress, April 7, 1777. : Resolved, that there be one director general of all the military hospitals which shall be erected for the Continental Army in the United States …
Establishing the positions- duties- and wages of hospital employees for the American army. At end: Extract from the minutes- published by order of Congress- Charles Thomson- secretary. The Continental Congress met at Philadelphia at this time. New-York Historical copy has inscription and manuscript annotations on verso- including the opening passages of a resolution dated "In Congress Feby 6th 1778. For the better regulating of the hospitals the United States ..."- written and crossed out in manuscript- and the name "Josiah Bartlett".
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