Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-03-09
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
Trenton, 5th February, 1919.

February, lSl5--It is enacted, "that
lall commissioned officers hereafter ap-
lpointed, shall within six months there.
after, and those already appointed may,
on all days Of parade, appear in full and
complete uniform, agreeably to that worn
Iby the officers of the army of the United
| States"
The following is the uniform Of the
officers OF the United States army.
| The coat of the Infantry and artillery
shali be uniformly blue, no red collars or
cuffs and no lace shall be worn by any
grade, excepting in epaulets and sword
knots.
General officers, and all others of the
general staff, not otherwise directed, shall
wear cooked hats without feathers, yellow
gilt bullet buttons, aud button holes in the
herring bone form.
The epaulets of major generals will
have on the gold ground of each strap
two silver stars.
The epaulets Of brigadiers will have
on each strap one star.
The uniform of the surgeons and mates,
shall be black, the coats with standing
collars and on each side of the collar
star Of embroidery, within half an inch
lof the front edge.
Of the general staff.
The coGt-Single breasted, with ten
buttons, and button holes worked with
blue twist, in front, five inches long at
the top, and three at the bottom.-Stand-
ing collar to be united 10 front to the edge
of the breast of the coat, not to rise
higher than the tip of the ear, and always
as high in front as the chin will permit, in
turning the head. The cuffs not less than
three and half, nor more than four,
inches wide. The skirts faced with blue,
the bottom of which not more than seven,
nor less than three and halfinches wide
the length to reach TO the bend of the
knee. The bottom of the breast and two
hip buttons to range,
On the collar one blind hole, five in
ches long, with button on each side.
The blind holes on each side Of the
front, in the herring bone form, to be in
the same direction with the collar, from
the top TO the bottom.
Blind holes (in like form) to proceed,
from four buttons, placed lengthwise on
each skirt. A gilt star, on the centre of
the bottom, two inches from the edge.
The cuffs to be indented within one
and a half inch of the edge, with four
buttons lengthwise on each sleeve, and
holes to the three upper buttons, cores
ponding with the indentation Of the cuff,
on the centre of which is to be inserted
the lower button.
All general officers will be permitted TO
embroider the button holes.
The adjutants general, inspectors gene
raj, quartermasters general, and their
assistants and deputies, will be permitted
to embroider the button holes Of the col
lars and cuffs only.
Vest, breeches and pcntalOoas-W hite,
Cor buff for general oficers.) Vests, sia-
gle breasted, without pocket flaps. Blue
ipantaloons may be worn in the winter, and
nankeen in the summer. Brooches, with
buttons on the knees, and gilt knee
bnckIes--or pantaloons.
Black StOck-of leather or silk.
Chapeams-of the following form: the
fan not less than six and half nor more
than nine inches higher in the rear, nor
less than fifteen nor more than seventeen
and half inches from point to- point,
bound round the edge with black binding,
an half inch wide.
Button and loop, black. Cockade, the
same, four and half inches diameter,
with gold eagle in the centre.
Sivords--Y fellow mounted, with black
or yellow grippe. For the officers Of the
sdjutant, inspector, and quarter master
generals department, sabres for all 9TH
ers, straight swords.
Waist bens--of black leather. No
sashes.
Epaulets-of gold according to rank.
of the artillery.
Coat-of the same length and general
description with that Of the staff
Pocket flaps, cross indented below, not
less than two and a half, nor more than
three, inches wide, with four buttons and
blind holes two buttons at the opening
| Of the pocket of each skirt; and a dia-
mond of blue cloth, ornamented one and
quarter inch on each side,. the centre two
inches from the bottom Of the coat.
The blind holes on either side of the
frslt, with the coat buttoned close to the
collar, accurately to form lines with the
corresponding ones opposite from the top
to the bottom, lie. not to represent her
ring bone. :.
The cuffs with four blind holes, ex-
tending from four buttons placed across Oh