Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-08-11

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| General Order No. 2.
| l. Two regiments of Veteran Volunteer IN
fantry and one battery Veteran Volunteer Ar
tilIery are authorized to be raised in this State,
under General Order No. 1911 of the War De-
partment, dated June 25, 1863
g All able-bodied men, between the ages Of
eighteen and lorty-fve, who have heretofore been
enlisted, and have eryed for not less than nine
months, who produce an honorable discharge
| from the service, of the usual form, and can
pass the examination required by the mastering
regulations of the United States, may be enlist
ed under this order as Veteran Volunteers.
3. Every volunteer, enlisted and mustered
into service as a veteran, under this order, will
be entitled to receive from the United States one
months pay in advance, and bounty and pre-
MUM Of four hundred and two dollars, to be
paid as follows:
| Upon being mustered into service, he will be
| paid one months pay in advance, 1880
| FIRST Insalment Of bounty, $500
| Premium 200
Total payment on muster, $4,000
| At the first regular pay day, or two months
after muster in, an additional instament
OF bounty will be paid, 5000
At the first regular pay day after six months
service, an additional instalment Of bounty
will be paid, 5000
At the first regular pay day after the emf OF
the first years service. an additional install
ment Il bounty will be paid, 5000
AT the first regular pay day after eighteen
months service, an additional insialment
Of bounty will be paid, 5000
At the ffst regular pay day after two years
service an additional nstalnent Of bouRty
win be paid. 5000
At the Grst regular pay day after two and a
half years sTyics, an additional instalment
Of bounty viii be paid, 5000
At the expiration Of three years. service the
remainder Of the bounty will be paid. 1900
And each enlisted man will be entitled to the
State pay of seven dollars per month
II the government shall not require these
troops for the full period of three years, and
they shall be mustered honorsbly out of service
before the expiration Of their term of enlist
ment, they will receive, upon being mustered
out, the whole amount oil bounty remaining I'M
paid, the same as if the whole term had been
served. The legal heirs of volunteers who die
in service will be entitled to receive the whole
bounty remaining unpaid at the time OF the
soldiers death.
| 4. Officers OF regiments, whose terms have ex-
pired, will be authorized, on proper application
to raise companies within the period of sixty DAYS
from the date of the muster out of their respective
commands, and if the company authorized to be
raised shall be filled up and mustered into ser
vice within the said period of sixty days, the
officers will be re-commlssioned Of The date Of
their original commissions, and for the time en-.
gagged in recruiting they will be entitled to 70.
ceive the pay belonging to their rank. If the
company author lied shall not be filled up and
mustered within the said period of sixty days.
the men enlisted may be transferred to some
other company and the recruiting officer dis
charged, unless the Governor shall think proper
to give him u position in tho consolidated COM
pany to which his men have been transferred.
| 5. If applications for permission to raise COM
psnies under the fourth section of this order
are not made by sufficient number of officers
to raise the whole number Of companies required,
recruiting officers will be appointed, as in the
case of recruiting for regiments heretofore
raised in this State, and the recruitment will be
governed by the requirements of General Order
No. rs Of the War Department, dated July s.,
1862.
6. The officers for the regiments and batteries
hereby authorized will be selected Il. From
those honorably discharged by expiration of
service" Of the organization with which they
served. 9 From those honorably discharged
by resignation, or otherwise, prior to " expira.
| tion OF service OF their organization, the Sc
lections from this latter class, should any be
made being subject, however to approval by the
War Depai tment.
I. Applications for permission to raise CON-
panies under the fourth section of this order are
to be made to the Governor OF tho State.