Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-02-27
Recruiting Service.
GENFRAL ORDERS. No. d

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WAa DsrATMrNT, Adjutant Generals Office,
Washington, Ian. s, lS47.
i The following act Of Congress. changing
the term Of enlistment, and providing a bounty
los recruits, Is published for the Information and
guidance of the officers Of the army.
A ac, to encourage enlistment in the regular
"a army. BE it enacted by The Senate and
House of Representatives ofthe United States in
Coagress assembled, That, during the continu-
ance Of the war with Mexico, the term Of enlist
ment Of the men 70 be recruited for the regiments
OF dragons, artillery, infantry and rifemen of
the present military establishment, shall be dur
ing tbs war, Or five years, at the option of the
cruil, unless sooner discharged.
Soc. = And be il further euacted. That there
shall ba allowed and paid to every able-bodied
man wine shall be DEFY epised to serve in the ar
tillery or iniaatry, for the term of five years or
during the war, bounty Of Sl2 ;but the payment
of So OF said bounty shall DO defer ed until the
recruit shall have joined Tor duty, the regimen. in
(which he is TO serve.
Ii. Tho general superinlendents, Of the re-
craitng service win give prompt and all necessary
instructions TO the recruiting officers, who viii
Immediately publish this general order, with the
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.
/ lii. The term of service will be hereafter
during the war with Mexicc, OF for five years, as
the recriit may prefer. The blanks now in use
win answer for five years. men, by writing on the
back Of enlistment in due form, the required re-
ceipt for the advanced bounty; and they win also
suffice for the new term, until new blanks can be
printed by substituting the words during ths war,
in the hand writing of the recruiting officer, for
the words five years. as printed in the precribed
oath Of allegiance.
". Company commanders will add , columns
to the muster rolls, and muster aud pay rolls now
Ia use, TO show the payments on account of boun-
ty. In the first column will be charged the adj
yaneod 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 TO
serve Recruiting officers viii add similar col.
ums TO tina blank muster rolls, muster and pay roll,
and muster and descriptive roll, &c, respectively
furnished FOR the recruiting service.
| v. The term Of service having been changed
fyomfve years TO ''during the war Nyi.h Mexico,
and bounty Of Sl2 allowed,' 1t is expected that
the rank and file of the army will be illed in a
short time, with due exertion and activity on the
part Of the officers who will explain TO the recruit
before he enlisis, the conditions upon which he
enters the service.
vi. Whenever recruiting stations prove unsuc-
tessful, they must be abandoned and new ones es-
tablished; aud if any officer fail TO get recruits
at more than one station, he shall bosreie ed and
ordered by the superintendent, TO join his regi-
ment.
VII. More than ordinary attention must be
paid to the tactical Instruction OF recruits by oil
officers and commanders from the moment Of en-
slment at the rendezvous, until sent to join their
regiments. To this point, the attention Of COM
manders uf depots and posts especially directed.
See No. 748, Army Regulations.
VIII. The garrison of Fort Columbus having
been Withdrawn for service in the field, that post
has been turned over exclusively Tor tho recruiting
scrvisc as depot OF instruction. Colons Crane
Of Isl regimen, Of artillery, the great superinlen-
dent, will give special attention 10 this subject,
and that the recruits DO comfortably quarterod
and well instructed during the short time they
may be retained on Governors island.
BY order: II. JONES,
Adjutant General.