Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-08-18
STATE OF IOWA.
ADyUrASr GExERAL's OrrrcE, |
DAVENPORT. Aug. 2, 1864,

DAVENPORT, aug. q, 1904.
| Tn order that therr may I've no misunder-
sanding in relation IT, the raising of the two
NV regiments of Infantry, particular atten-
| ton is called to - sa 49,. ..
General Orders No &C. 80. ~ .
l. Recruiting officers will have all recruits
regularly enlisted and sworn in. on enlistment
papers, by a Justice of the Peaos, Notary
Public, or other officer authorized TO admins.
ter oaths. Recruiting officers are not author
lied to muster recruits or to administer oaths
Enlistment papers will be made out in trip
licate-two copies for Lieut.. Col. w. N. Grier
Superintendent of Recruiting Service, and one
for this Office. $3.50 .s =. ta
IL. Enlistment papers must be full and
complete. and all blanks for signature filled
up. Officers will note on hack of same at
foot, the actual residence of the recruit, by
county, township, city, and ward, and will,
in this service, be guided by the rules and
regulations of the War Department enlist.
ing only able bodied men between the ages of
lS and As, in good health, and free from all
physical defects. No person under the age of
trenty.one years is to be enlisted without the
written consent of his parent, guardian. or
master, or certificate of a responsible person,
that said consent was given verbally Re-
cruiting officers will be very particular I'm as
certaining the true age Of the recruit. He
will not allow any man to be deceived or in
weighed into the service by false representa-
ton. such as promise of furlough, &c, but
will in person explain the nature of the SER
vice. the length Of the term. the pay and al
lowances to which soldier is entitled by law,
before he signs the enlistment. .. ,.
iii. Officers and men are expressly notified
that the State does not pay them. The u. s.
pays the men from date of enlistment, and
the officers from actual command a. e..
". All subsistence. lodging, transporta-
ton, bills, &c, are paid by U. S. disbursing
officer, 1t. Col. ". N. Grier, Davenport,
Iowa.
v. Every enlisted man discharged as mi
nor or for other cause, involving fraud on his
part in the enlistment, or discharged by the
civil authority, forfeits all pay and allowan-
ces due at the time of discharge. In case any
individual is discharged within three months
after entering the service, for disability
which existed at that time, he receives neither
pay nor allowances, except subsistence and
to his home.
vi. Special attention Is called to the fol- |
lowing extract from General Order 366, War
Department, A. q. o.. series of 1868.
"All expenses incurred on account of re-
cruits hereinafter enlisted by recruiting Off
GERS. either for old or new regiments) who |
shall be rejected after medical inspection for |
curious disability, existing at the time of their |
enlistment, will be charged on the muster-in |
roll. opposite the name Of the officer enlisting
them and stopped from any pay which may |
hereafter lie due him from the Government |
VII. On application to this office recruiting |
officers can procure blanks for making out !
bills against the United States, for subsistence |
anil lodgings of recruits. Recruiting officers |
will make verbal contracts for the same, when |
placed in quarters. The price of ration |
u, n
meal, and lodging IL cents day, for each |
man actually subsisted and lodged after his |
actual enlistment. Under a contract for cook |
ed rations three substantial meals shall con-
stitute complete ration. In transit to regi- |
mental depot, recruits will I've supplied with |
cooked rations, obtained before starting, under |
a verbal contract. Recruiting officers will APP |
peal tn the loyalty of the public to obtain sub
sistence and lodging at above rate, and will |
only in cases Of urgent and extreme necessity |
cxceed them, and in such cases only are au- |
thorized to make verbal contracts at higher |
rate, making affidavit on voucher that the |
same was at the lowest possible price in the |
where the expense was incurred. |
VIII. Transportation passes will be furn- |
ished by 1t. Col. W. N Grier, Superintendent |
service or by this Department, on |
application with explicit statement of routes |
and mode Of travel. The pass will be filled |
up with ink. describing on its face the number |
Of men and their names, and whether for one,
two or three years's service. Conductors OF
Railroads, clerks Of steamboats,. and agents Of
stage companies will refuse all passes which |
are altered in name, number, starting point |
or destination. 4 -
TX. Special attention Is called to the fol-
lowing extract from General Order, War De-
partment A. q. O.. series 1858: e
Ill The certificate to all vouchers for
by private conveyance, must
state the prices charged were the current
rates of the place where the expense was in
Cured also that the transportation by rail- |
road or steamboat could not be obtained. The
vouchers like all others must be approved by
the Superintendent of the Volunteer Recruit |
ing Service, and show that the expense was
incurred for new regiments, prior to complete
organization. The number and names of
men. their company, the number of miles
travelled and rate per mile, will In each case
he specified, as in passes for railroad transpor-
tation.
X. Muster and Descriptive rolls will be
made out in duplicate according to forms furn
ished from this Department. one copy to be
retained By recruiting officers, and one to he
forwarded with the detachment TO 1t. Col.
Grier, with the enlistment papers of the same.
XII. Davenport is the general rendezvous
of the regiments, as the United States has
here a sufficient number of barracks to accom-
modate all troops raised. and as at this point
the Chief Mastering and Disbursing Othcer Of
the United States has his headquarters.
XII. All Recruiting Officers will at once
report in person or by letter to Lit Col. VIM.
N. Grier. list U. 8. Cavalry, Superintendent
of Recruiting Service, their Post Office adj