General Orders, April 20 and 21

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Head-Quarters, New-York, April 22, 1776.

(Parole, Richmond.)
(Countersign Conuay)

For the future, all prisoners confined for crimes, for which they are to be tried by a General Court-Martial, are to be sent to the Provost-Marshal, (Captain Moroney,) who has a Guard appointed to secure them; and all prisoners, confined in any Guard for offences that come under the cognizance of a Regimental Court-Martial, are to be sent to the Barrack Guard of the Regiment they belong to.