Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-21

Commonwealth of Asns.achusett.,

o HEADQUARTERS, BosroN. June 49, 1862,
GENERAL ORDER, No. 81
reutohs are daily received Mt these Iea Quarters
o the transfer to Massachusetts, Volunteer Repimcnt,
oi c'tzens OF Massachusetts who have enlisted r rep
mehts OF ether states. The Governor of this Common
wealth has no power discretion in the premises III
au hory u grant such transfers resting solely with
Federal military officers by whom it rarely exercised
W OF the confusion thereby created in regiments
al rolls, accounts AMI Organization
me c'tz'hs Of Massachusctta have heretofore be en-
repeatedly warned by proc lama ion by the governor and
Otherwise that by heir enlistment In the volunteer
Oh Other ties their families acquire no rights under
those acts eff legislation by this Commonwealth known
d. tAe soldiers Families Relief Laws in the Mas
sachnsetts corps already in the field and the new reg
ehts now being raised ample opportunity is afforded
Tor the recruitment Of all Massachusetts, citizens
ing 10 enter the military service of their country nv
thcir in these Massachusetts corps their
lilies acquire all the rights intended 10 be conferred h
tie statutes above mentioned
ih'S Ouer IL piomulSated for the purpose Of ,arnn
"s4' CT nm p'"" o' Massachusetts to whom induce
mems are neu out to G LIST in the corps OF other states
that by so enlising they deliberately fol- felt all claim ~
Knew serves or ther families aid under these sotutes
and that the authorities of Massachusetts have r, ,
whatsoever TO relieve them afterwards fIom he
queces OF their error, by procuring their tr,nsr 80
Massachusetts corps "
Inc iacl that the laws Of other states into whose i
""'oe S-i'i'c MaSsSachusclts men have cuIisted
aIord no peculiarly relief TO their families ercatcs NO
aolAlty on the part of this government to ,ve tbcr
however great their disappointment or suffering
IL Petitions are also daily received, at these ucoIopor
tets addressed to tine governor in the nature of
from the decisions of the town and city MAGISTRATES in
Spc 10 Inc administration of under CHAPTERS 15l
aud 1855 Of the statutes of 1867 '
by examining these statutes all persons mi,
perceive that neither the governor no. any Other t
oihcer has any power whatsoever OF control oyor :,
discretion OF the town or city magistrates as TO
lies to whom, or the amount in which, the aid tboh
provided shall be granted Absolute discretion in -
to granting or withholding the aid in saeb rar,,io
case, is vested exclusively, by law, In tn. mnnio,a,
magistrates. TO the state authorities tho M yyr
Ing the municipal accounts of expenditures and No
OF reimbursement, are alone reserved
III Certificates OF enlistment prepared from tho do
scrptiVe rolls of tho various Massachusetts oI,n,
corps as deposited in the Office Of the Adiutan, Co...
are furnished without expense to all nartos ro,,'
them in behalf of the families OF Massachnso,,
teers' to enable such families to present IN
uaoS OF the towns or cities to whom tbov onni r az
Pma '9e'e evidence of the service Of soldiers uhns
1nisle's constitute the ground of their applications
ny oruer Oh IT'S E&celency join A. ANDREW cny.
erhor and Commander-in. Chief
"M sClOULEn, Adlutapt General