Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-03-06
Recruiting Service.
GENERAL ORDERS. No. )

WAR Der ATMENr, Adjutant Generals Ofhce,1
Washington, Jan. 8, lS47 (
l. The following act of Congress. changing
the term of enlistment, and providing boun,y
for recruits, is published for The information and
guidance Of the officers Of the army.
4 A N act to encourage enlistment in the regular
! IA army. BE II enacted by the Senate and
/ House of Representatives Of the United States in
Congress assembled, That, during the con,inu-
ance of the war with Mexico, the term of enlist
ment of the men to be recruited for the regiments
( of dragons, artillery, infantry and rifemen of
the present military establishment, shall be dur
ing the war, FIVE years. at the option of the re-
crut, unless sooner discharged.
| Sec. 2. And be il further enacted. That there
shall be allowed and paid to every abls-bodietl
man who shall be duly enlised to serve in the ar
tillery or infantry, for the term of FIVE years OF
during the war, a bounty of S IL ;but the payment
of Sc OF said bounty shall be deferred until the
recruit shall have joined for duty, the regiment in
which he is to serve.
| Ill. The general superinlendents, of the re-
cruting service win give prompt and all necessary
instructions TO the recruiting officers, who will
Immediately publish this general order. with tho
table of established rates of pay agreeably to ex-
listing laws annexed, three times in two news
papers in the vicinity of their respective rendez-
vous.
III. The term of service will be hereafter
during the war with Mexico, or for FIVE years, as
the recrdit may prefer. The blanks now in use
will answer for five years. men, by writing on the
back of enlistment in due form, the required
ceipt for the advanced bounty; and they will also
suffice for the new term, until new blanks can be
printed by substituting the words sduring tbs war;
in the hand writing of the recruiting officer, for
the words five years. as printed in the preerbed
oath OF ailegsn
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to the muster rolls, and muster and pay rolls now
in use, to show the payments on account OF boun-
ty. In the first column will be charged the adj
vanced bounty paid to the soldier at the time of
his enlistment; in the second, the retained
bounty due him, and which is to be paid after
Joining for duty the regiment in which he is 10
serve. Recruiting officers will add similar col
ums to the blank muster rolls, muster and pay roll,
aud muster and descriptive roll, &C., respectively
furnished for the recruiting service.
V. The term of service having been changed
from five years to ssduring the war with Mexico,
aud bounty of Sl2 allowed,' IT is expected that
the rank and file of the army will be TILED in
short time, with due exerton and activity on tho
part of the officers who will explain to the recruit
before he enlists, the conditions upon which he
enters the service.
vi. Whenever recruiting stations prove unsuc-
cessful, they must be abandoned and new ones es-
,ablishod and if any officer fail to get recruits
at more than one station, he shall bciree ed and
ordered by the superintendent to join BIS regi-
ment.
VII. More than ordinary attention must be
paid 10 the tactical instruction OF recruits by all
officers and commanders from the moment of en-
lisment at the rendezvous, until cent to join their
regiments. To this point, the attention Of COM
manders Of depots and posts especially directed.
See No. 74S, Army Regulations.
VIII. The garrison of Fort Columbus having
been Withdrawn for service in the field, that post
has been turned exclusively for the recruiting
service as depot of instruction. Colonel Crane
Of LIST regimen, of artillery, the great superinten-
dent, will give special attention to this subject,
and ses that The recruits be comfortably quartsred
and well instr ucted during the short time they
may be retained on Governors island.
BY order: X. JONES,
Adjutant General.