Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-30
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

PROVOST MARSHAL OENERAL 5 OFflCE,
WAsH1NGroN, ID. c., Oct 9Th, 1852
To Captain Il. B. Rutiedge Prooost Aar-
shat, LIST District Of Ioaoa:
The following Regulations are establish
ed, with the approval of the Secretary of War,
for your District, and will govern in the mat
ter of the apprehension of deserters and in the
enlistment of recruits to fill old regiments
l. 70 persons deputsed by the Provost
Marshal General to arrest deserters and pro-
cure recruits, who shall deliver to you de-
sert.r from the army Of the United States, in
Guiding deserters from the late draft, see sec
ton IL Enrolment act the sum OF $50 shall
be paid, and payment to be made in accor-
dance with the rules now governing the pay
ment of reward for deserters. No cxpences
of apprehension or delivery of Ceserters will
be allowed.
II. The moneys received from drafted
persons as an exemption from service, under
the 18th section of the act, shall constitute a
substitute fund for the payment of premiums
and bounties to recruits procured as herein
specified.
III. Persons deputsed as aforesaid to ar
rest deserters and procure recruits, present,
ing to your Board man acceptable as re.
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ceptability as applied by this Bureau, shall
receive premiums as follows, to wit:
For an accepted recruit, who may be shown
to the Board to have served at least nine
months rs a soldier, and been honorably dis
charged, (for other cause than disability a
premium of $25.
For an accepted recruit, without the mill
tary qualifications above specified, premi-
um of $l5.
The premiums herein provided will be paid
to the persons who shall have presented the
accepted recruit, as soon as said recruit shall
have been delivered at the general rendezvous
at Davenport, Iowa. The payment of the
premlum will be made by an officer designat-
ed for the purpose, in the CITY Of Davenport,
Iowa, whenever the person who furnished the
recruit shall present to him certificate from
your Board that the recruits named, and for
whom be claims premiums, were accepted
and regularly enlisted, and certificate from
the commanding Officer at the general rem
devious at Davenport, Iowa, that the said re-
cruits have actually been received at his rem
devious.
You are authorized and required, notwith-
standing anything else herein contained, to
decline all business, in the matter of recruits,
with any person or persons who may, at any
time, practice, or attempt TO practice fraud or
imposition, either upon the Government, or
the person presented as recruit, or who
shall extort claim or receive, any other fee,
perquisite, or compensation, from the Gov
eminent, or the recruit, than the premium
herein authorized and provided, and such
persons shall forfeit their appointments and
all right to any premium or payment, and be
reported to the Provost Marshal General, to
be dealt with summarily by a Military COM
mission.
You are required to facilitate the procura-
ton of recruits in the manner herein pres
scribed, by early examination of them, prompt
preparations of certificates upon which the
payment of premiums depends, and by every
thing else properly devolving on you, calcu-
lated to assist the persons presenting recruits
in securing their premiums without unneces-
sary delay. You will Immediately nominate,
through the Acting Assistant Provost Mar
shall General of the State, one or more persons
whom you may deem best suited TO" recruit
ing agents for your District, that they may
be deputized for that purpose.
w. Bounties, &C., as follows, will be paid