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Excerpt from The Original Institution of the General Society of the Cincinnati: As Formed by the Officers of the Army of the United States, at the Conclusion of the Revolutionary War, Which Gave Independence to America Proposals for establishing a Society, upon principles therein mentioned, whose members shall be officers of the American Army, having been communicated to the several regiments of the respective lines, they appointed an officer from each, who, in conjunction with the general officers, should take the same into consideration, at their meeting this day, at which the Honorable Major General Baron de Steuben, the senior officer present, was pleased to preside. The proposals being read, fully considered, paragraph by paragraph, and the amendments agreed to, Major-General Knox, Brigadier-General Hand, Brigadier-General Huntingdon, and Captain Shaw, were chosen to revise the same, and prepare a copy to be laid before this Assembly at their next meeting, to be holden at Major-General Baron de Steuben's quarters, on Tuesday, the 13th instant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.