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NHG-P.777.024
26 Jul 1777:43 (2/7)
In Congress, June 20, 1777. Resolved, that a corps of
invalids be formed, consisting of eight companies, each
company, to have one captain, two lieutenants, two ensigns,
five serjeants, six corporals, two drummers, two fifers, and
one hundred men. The corps to be employed in garrisons, and
for guards in the cities and other places, where magazines
or arsenals are placed; as also to serve as a military
school for young gentlemen, previous to their being
appointed to marching regiments; for which purpose all the
subaltern officers, when off duty, that be obliged to attend
a mathematical school, appointed for the purpose to learn
geometry, arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, and the
extraction of roots; and that the officers of this corps
shall be obliged to contribute one day's pay in every month,
and stoppages shall be made of it accordingly, for the
purpose of purchasing a regimental library of the most
approved authors on tacticks and the petite guerre; that
some officers from the corps be constantly employed in the
recruiting service, in the neighbourhood of the places in
which they shall be stationed; that all recruits so made
shall be brought into the corps and drilled, and afterwards
drafted into other regiments, as occasion may require.
Extract from the Minutes.
Charles Thompson, Sec'y.
The printers are requested to publish this resolution in
their several newspapers.
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