The Portland daily press., 1864-08-29
STATE OF MAINE.

General Order No. %.
/. Thirty Companies of Infantry for Regiments
in the field AMI 10 be edited upon the present call
are autho ized oy the War Department to be raised
in this state from Volunteers for either one, two or
three years service, as the recruit may elect
H. Enrolled men or their ubstitufCs. have the
privilege OF electing the company and regiment
In which they will sarye, by volunteering 10 these
organzaions but If dra ted. such liberty is neces
IF. Ihs state bounties to all volunteers. and to
substitutes enis ed prior TO the drai, is SlOo 500
or $500. riding TO the period Of their enlistment
for l. 2. or years, and the U. 5. bounty the same
to all volunteers and representative recruits Sub
stitutes ior enrolled men are not entitled TO United
States Bounty.
~ The officers ofthese companies will be select
ed from those who have served at least nine months
in the field unless very special reasons exist ID par
ticular cases.
Such immediate action shoald be taken by
citizens no: liable TO enrolment detiring TO avoid
dram in their community, and by clubs OF enrolled
men, will make ii Ior the pecu iary interest ofthe
latter, to volunteer instead Of entering service as
drafted men.
VI Concerted action Initiated in cities and pop.
ulous plac s. and extending to the suburbs ana adj
jacent towns, embodyng the partial selection OF Of
heers and commissioned officers, msy insure the
adoption, at once, Of such plans OF procedure as
will luaIantee the raising OF csmpany in every IN
stance where IL is undertaken, But any officer Sc
lected as above, shoud be person who has served
honorably, for st least nine months the selection
NAV not be confirmed by the Governor.
VII. The following ules will be adhered TO in
raising these companies.
lst. NO fees, premiums or expenses Will be paid
for making the enlistments.
I'd. Each volunteer must be examined and ap-
proved by local physician, who will be paid % cts.
i0r his services; but the physician Is not TO sign tne
certificate of such examlna'ien upon The enlistment
paper that being for the authorized sn geon, who
mases the final examnatin n a the muster in.
Sd. Justice of the Peace will administer the
oath TO the recruit and I'LL and sign the certificate
on the face of the enlistment.
4th. When the enlistment Is for less period
than years. the blank vii BE- changed to exhibit
the fact.
5th Each company must comprise one hundred
and one enlis ed men, and soon ne that number
of suitable persons. who are eligible TO enlistment
have each signed three enlistment pspers, one part
of each enlistment with the names OF persons des-
ignated for the commissioned otic1rs o. the COM
pany and their residence and the place OF the rem
devious of the Company, will be forwarded the
Adjutant General: who VIII arrange with MAJOR
Gardiner, u. S. Military superniendent. for the
transportation, muster IN, clothing, arming and
coupling of the company.
VI. Ii the company is detained beyond the time,
of which reasonable notice is gwen the Adjutant
General thst will assemble AT its rendezvous 10
leave Tor the place OF muster, forty cents day per
man viii be allowed Tor boa and lodging nr the
period of such detention and the tins occupied IN
coming in from the company rendezvous.
VII. SO much of General Order Tsenty-Sesen
of the goth ut as pressri5es rules governing eni-
ments and credits for gu Dtas aud amount OF boun-
ties aud enumerates the persons entitled thereto
and eligible to enlistmenis, Is applicable to these
thirty companies
2S 1854, TO raise these companiesl
s'The said companies must be mustered in before
Sept g. 1854 10 order that they may be credited on
the quota OF the State under the aforesaid ca |"
"Shouid any of the companies all to organ ize
within reasonable time they will bs consolidated
as TO form and be mustered in as complete cor
panies before the aforesaid dates"
BY order OF His Excellency the Governor.
JOHN l.. HoDSr0N,
Adjutant-General.