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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Minutes of the Continental Congress [Extract]
United States. Continental Congress
December 14, 1781
Volume 17, Page 1052

[Extract.—Journals of Congress. Vol. III, P. 701. Ed. 1823.]

Friday, December, 14, 1781.

“On a report of the Secretary at War, to whom was referred sundry applications of particular officers.

Resolved, That in future no particular warrants issue in favor of any officers in actual service in the Line of any State, for pay or subsistence, but that at all times they draw their pay and subsistence with the regiment to which they respectively belong, from the paymaster of such regiment.”