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General Orders, 22 April 1776

General Orders

Head Quarters, New-York, April 22nd 1776.

Parole Richmond.Countersign Conway.

For the future all Prisoners confin’d for Crimes, for which they are to be tried by a General Court Martial, are to be sent to the Provost Marshal Capt. Moroney, who has a Guard appointed to secure them, and all Prisoners, confin’d in any Guard, for offences that come under the Cognizance of a Regimental Court Martial, are to be sent to the Barrack Guard of the Regiment they belong to.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

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    General Orders, 22 April 1776
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    “General Orders, 22 April 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0088. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 4, 1 April 1776 – 15 June 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991, p. 103.]