Knox proposes ideas for legislation regarding medical support to the troops
Document 1790Document, Act relative to troops.
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29th March 1790.
An addition to an Act
relative to the Troops.
Type
Document, type undetermined
Description
Document, Act relative to troops.
Date
03/29/1790
Author
Repository
Collection
Document number
1790032990001
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1
Note
Document is written in the hand of Knox
Notable persons
Henry Knox
secretary at war
surgeons
Notable items
and be it further enacted
whenever the said troops shall be formed into disparate detachments in such a manner as that the surgeons and the surgeon's mates shall be deemed
President
empowered to appoint so many assistant surgeon's mates and for such periods as he shall judge the service may require