Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-04
STATE OF VERMONT.


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GENERAL 0RDRR No. 10.
In pursuance of requisition made up
on the Governor of Vermont by the
President of the United States, under
his proclamation dated July Is, 1864,
calling for 100000 men to serve in the
army of the United States, il Is hereby
ordered, that five thousand one hun
bred and lfty-siX men be raised in the
State of Vermont to serve in the army
of the United States, in regiments now
i'm the field,
The number of men required under
this order will be assessed upon the sew
eral towns in this State, and the several
Quotas of the towns will be announced |
Immediately; and volunteers will be re-
ceived and enlisted until the 9th day OF !
September, 1864.
The Quota of each town will be re- |
duced by any excess such town may |
have previously furnished over all calls
heretofore made, or increased by its de-
flciency nnder such calls, as the case
may be.
Volunteers will be accepted under this
order for one, two, or three years, as
each volunteer may elect, and will be
assigned to such regiments, batteries or
detached companies now in service from
this state, including the Seventeenth
regiment as they may choose, except
that colored recruits will be assigned to
serve in colored regiments. But only
those enlisted for three years can be as
signed to the Seventeenth regiment,
Bounties will be paid by the United
States as follows:
For Recruits, including representative
recruits, (white or colored,) for one
year, 500
For two years, 2OO
For three years, 800
The first instalment of bounty will be
paid by the mastering and discussing
/ officer, when the recruit has been mus
! tered in as follows:
TO recruit who enlists for one
/ year, 800 80
For two wears. 66 66
For three years, lUO w
No premium for the procuration ofre-
Cruits will be paid.
Neither drafted men, nor substitutes
furnished either before or after draft are
entitled to bounty from the United
States.
Substitutes are not entitled to State
pay.
The State pay OF seven dollars per
month Will be paid to all volunteers and
representative recruits, furnished by
persons not liable to military duty, who
enlist under this order. And if the en-
listment be Tor three years, they are en-
titled, if they so elect, to commute their
state pay and receive at the time of mus
ter. one hundred and twenty-five dollars
in lieu thereof. The right of COmmuta-
ton must be exercised in the manner
prescribed by General Order No. t, of
the Governor of Vermont, dated NOycm-
Der Il, 1868.
Volunteers and representative recruits
enlisting for less term than three years
are not entitled to commute their state
pay.
BY decision Of the War Department,
every volunteer, whether enlisted for
one. two, or three years, will count as
one man towards the quota Of the town
for which he enlists, and the equaliZa-
ton of military service rendered by the
different towns will be effected here
| after.
So much of General Order No. l, oil
the Governor of this State, dated Octo-
Der %, 1868, as appointed the Selectmen
of the several towns in this state to be
recruiting officers, and authorized and
empowered them, as such, to raise
volunteers, is hereby continued il
force. and they are hereby authorized
to continue to act as recruiting Off
GERS.
The town, named in the contract O
, enlistment as the residence of the re
crut, will be taken to be the towr
which has furnished such recruit, anC
, will be credited accordingly, when such
recruit is mustered into the United
+ States service.
! Provision has been made by the Gov
ernor of this State, by General Orde
No 9, dated July %, 1864, by which
such towns as desire to do so may avail
themselves of means Of obtaining re
cruits from southern states to the eX
-. tent of two-fifths of the number of mel
y required from each town. But the sew
eral towns are earnestly enjoined not t,
: allow any expectation of obtaining mel
from that source to induce them to re
= nit their efforts for filling their quota
from their own citizens. Immediat
= and untring effort should be made t.
u obtain enlistments at home,-for upol
: success in that depends the only ceytant
of avoiding draft And it is only b,
: such enlistments that the veteran
= regiments from the state can be filed
e The honor of the State to which thos
t regiments have so largely contributed
r require that they should be at once illet
e to the maximum and by so doing tn
most efficacous and immediate assist
e ance will be given to the general gov
:, eminent.
K A superintendent of recruiting viii
9 be appointed in each county, who vii
n have charge of the recruiting service il
}, the county, will communicate with tn
d selectmen, and render them all needed
assistance, and to whom the selectmel
will make returns of their doings as re
e cruiting officers, and will deliver all re
i cruits enlisted by them.
r The superintendent Of recruiting vii
y receive all recruits enlisted by the select