Export License from the Secret Committee
DS: University of Pennsylvania Library
<Philadelphia, January 9, 1776, to the New Hampshire committee
of inspection: The secret committee, as empowered by the
Congress, authorizes John Langdon of New Hampshire to export
to the amount of $10,000 the produce of the colonies, in their
service and according to the Continental Association; horned
cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry are excepted. Signed by Samuel
Ward, John Alsop, Josiah Bartlett, Robert Morris, and Franklin;
attestation by John Hancock that the signers are a quorum of the
committee and have the requisite authority.>
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