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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland celebrated Presidents Day with a reading of George Washington's handwritten 1783 resignation from the Continental Army, a document the state recently acquired from private owners.
The speech is considered a milestone in American history for establishing military subservience to civil authority.
Lawmakers and Gov. Martin O'Malley gathered Monday in the rotunda of the State House, just outside the old Senate chamber where Washington read from the document Dec. 23, 1783. The room is kept as it looked in the 1780s.
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