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20 Commissioners, on the succeeding Morning, to be dealt with
according to the Law - 
                            The above Orair to be canude into Effect
                                   on the Evening of Thursday, next, thereafter
                                 Monday ye 12^t August 1799 - 
                                                             by Orair
                                                                  Joshua Potts
                                                                              Town Fluke

Philadelphia December 21th 1799
Major General Hamilton has received thro the Secretary
of war the following orders from the President of the United 
States. - 
The President with deepe regret announces to the army the
death of its beloved Cheif General George Washington, Shear-
ing in the grief which every heart must feel, 
For so hairing ^heave and a affecting, or public loss, and desires to
express his high since of the vast debt of gratitude, which is due
to the virtuous, talents, and ever - memorable services of the illustrious
deceased, he directs that funeral honors be paid to him, as all the
military stations, and that the Officers of the Army, and of the official
corps, of Volunteers, wear --- on the left arm by way of mourn=
=ing, for five months.    Major General Hamilton, will give the
necessary orders, for carrying into effect the following directions. ___
The imperitive terms, in which this great national calamity an=
=nounced by the President, could recurr no new force from
any thing that might be added.
The voice of praise would in vain endeavour - to wealt a charceator