(WASHINGTON GEORGE) An Act to Authorize the President to Cal

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(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) An Act to Authorize the President to Call Out and Station a Corps of Militia, in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania. Letterpress broadside, 13 1/4x8 inches, signed in type by President Washington and Vice President Adams, and Signed in manuscript by Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State; folds, moderate foxing. [Philadelphia]: [Francis Childs], 29 November 1794

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A Congressional Act from the final phase of the Whiskey Rebellion. Tax protests in western Pennsylvania had begun in 1791, and climaxed with attacks on tax collectors in July 1794. President Washington led a large army to the scene in October 1794, the only time a sitting American president ever led troops in the field. After his return, this act authorized Washington to call up an additional 2500 militiamen as needed "to suppress unlawful combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed." Variant printing with "Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of State" printed below Washington's name. Evans 27886; cf. Bristol B8960. None traced at auction, and only 6 listed in ESTC.