Proclamation. By the United States in Congress assembled
Subtitle: Whereas information has been received from the comptroller of the Treasury, that various certificates of final settlement issued by the commissioner for settling the accounts of the army, to the officers and soldiers of the United States, have been counterfeited by some fraudulent and wicked persons ...
Contributors: Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.; Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.; Thompson, E., 18th cent., annotator.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States. Continental Army -- Pay, allowances, etc.; Forgery -- United States.
Notes: Offering a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest and conviction of persons guilty of forgery of certificates.
Signed and dated: Done at New-York, this second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five ... Richard Henry Lee, president. Charles Thomson, secretary.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 915 (#446); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.
LC copy has inscription: The foregoing published by order of His Excellency the Presdt with advice of council. E. Thompson, NY.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Evans 19327
Journals of the Continental Congress, 446