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524. ARMY, Regulation of.—[further continued].

Nothing wiser can be devised
than what the Secretary of War ( Monroe )
proposed in his report at the commencement
of Congress. It would have kept our
regular army always of necessity full, and
by classing our militia according to ages,
would have put them into a form ready for


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whatever service, distant or at home, should
require them.—
To W. H. Crawford. Washington ed. vi, 418. Ford ed., ix, 502.
(M. Feb. 1815)