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Congress of the United States, begun and held at the city of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine : An act to establish an executive department, to be denominated the Department of War.

Author/creator United States
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[New York] : [Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine], [1789]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 34 x 21 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Uniform titleAct to establish an executive department
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22194. ^A478749
General note"Approved, August the 7th, 1789."
General noteTwo states noted. One, Bristol B7184, has printed certificate at foot: We certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the act of Congress ... compared with the inrollment thereof, signed by the President of the United States. [blank] secretary of the Senate. [blank] clerk of the House of Representatives. The other, Evans 22194, is without this certificate; printed area measures 22.2 x 13.0 cm.
General noteFrancis Childs and John Swaine were printers to the Congress in 1789.
References Evans 22194
References Bristol B7184
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22194).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Other titleAct to establish an executive department, to be denominated the Department of War.

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