empowered them to displace or supersede such Officers.

By an Act of Congress of the 28th day of June 1779 it was ordered that when ever a vacancy should happen of a Commissioned Officer in any Regiment, that Notice thereof should be given to the Executive Authority of the State, to which such Regiment belonged by the commanding Officer of such Regiment to the end that a proper person be appointed to fill such vacancy. No such notice, with respect to me, was ever given by the commanding Officer of the Regiment _ it could not be given.


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To avoid the inconvenience of Officers continuing to absent themselves from their respective Corps, after having notice to join. An Act of Congress [indecipherable] empowering Courts Martial to Cashier them for such conduct.

It appears by the several Acts of Congress and the rules established for the government of the Army that there have been three and no more than three, several modes of discharging or getting rid of Officers of the line, first, by resignation 2 Cashiering by Court Martial, and 3 by reducing of the Regiment or Corps, which in our Army

attained