Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-29
RecruItinr Orders. Sc.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The following
army order has been issued:
First. The recruiting detail for each volun-
teer regiment in the field will hereafter be to
consist of two commissioned officers from the
regiment and one commissioned officer or pri-
vate from each company. Paragraph Sd of
General Orders No. los of 1861 is amended
accordingly. Regimental commanders will
at once select the additional men herein au-
| thorized, and the order for detail will as be-
fore be given by the commanders of depart
ments or corps d'armee.
Second. One commissioned officer of tthe
detail will remain constantly at the general
recruiting depot to receive the recruits when
sent from the rendezvous, and to exercise
care and control over them after their arrival
until they are ordered to their regiments.
Third. Recruits for regiments now in the
field will be permitted to select any company
of the regiment they may prefer. Should the
company thus selected be full when they join
it, they will be allowed to select another
Fourth. All men who desire singly or by
squads to join any particular regiment or COM
pany in the field are hereby authorized to pre-.
sent themselves to any recruiting officer, when
they will be enrolled and forwarded at once to
the general department of the state or dis
trict, there to be mustered and to receive the
bounty allowed by law. In such cases enlist
ment papers and descriptive lists will be for
warded as directed in general orders No. los
of 1861 from this office.
Another army order is as follows First
descriptive lists and accounts of the pay,
clothing, &C., of soldiers, will never, where
it can be avoided, be given into their own
hands. Such papers should be entrusted only
to the officers in charge.
Second. Except in such cases as that of an
ordnance sergeant specially assigned to duty
at a post where there are no troops, and
where he cannot be regularly mustered. No
soldier must be paid on a mere descriptive
list and accounts of pay and clothing, but only
on the muster and pay roll, or on that Of a
general hospital, if he be there sick or on
duty. N. payments will therefore be paid to
enlisted men on furlough.
Third. The giving in duplicate by any off
Ger of the army of certificates of discharge
or final statements, is peremptorily forbidden
See paragraph l65 of the revised regulations,
not even if such papers are lost or destroyed
is any officer of the army authorized to re-
| place them.
Fourth. The proper course to be pursued
in such cases will be found indicated in para
graph l34l of the revised regulations, and is
substantially as follows duplication for pay
| ment in these cases must be made through
the paymaster general of the army to the sec
ond comptroller of the treasury. The APP
plication must be accompanied by the sol
diers' statement, under OATH that his final
statements and certificates of discharge
are lost, destroyed, or have never been re-
ceived by him; that he has made diligen
search or application for them, that they can
not be recovered or obtained, and that he has
not received pay on them nor assigned then
to any other person. All the circumstance.
of the case must be fully set forth in the aft
davit, and this again must be accompanied by
all the evidence in confederation of his state
ment, which the soldier can produce. On re-
ceipt of this, the second comptroller will au-
dit the account, and, satisfied with the evil
dence, will order payment to the soldier Of
the amount found justly due to him.
The attention of all officers of the army,
and particularly of all company, regiment,
and post commanders, surgeons in charge OF
general hospitals, and of paymasters, and OF
all soldiers discharged from the service, who
from the want of their final statement and
certificates of discharge, are unable to pro-
cure settlement of their account with the
government is specially directed to this Or
| der.