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Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Mr. Johnson of Kentucky reported a bill from the Committee on Military Affairs to establish three additional U.S. Military Academies: one in the District of Columbia, one at Mount Dearborn in South Carolina, and one near Newport in Kentucky. The academies would follow the same regulations as the existing one, with total cadets not exceeding 800. The bill was read twice and committed.
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Mr. Johnson of Ky. from the committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill making provision for three additional Military Academies.
This bill proposes that there shall be established three additional Military Academies; one within the District of Columbia; one at Mount Dearborn in South Carolina; and one in the vicinity of Newport, at the junction of the Ohio and Licking rivers, in the state of Kentucky, with the same establishment of officers, and under the same regulations generally as the present Military Academy; the number of Cadets in the several Military Academies never to exceed in the whole the number of eight hundred.
The bill was twice read and committed.
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the bill was twice read and committed.
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Mr. Johnson of Ky. from the committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill making provision for three additional Military Academies: one within the District of Columbia; one at Mount Dearborn in South Carolina; and one in the vicinity of Newport, at the junction of the Ohio and Licking rivers, in the state of Kentucky, with the same establishment of officers, and under the same regulations generally as the present Military Academy; the number of Cadets in the several Military Academies never to exceed in the whole the number of eight hundred.