The Portland daily press., 1864-08-06
STATE OF MAINE.


/. Thirty Companies of Infantry for Regiments
In the field and TO be credited upon the pres Mt call
are authorized oy the War Department 10 be raised
IN TINS state IRON Nolunteers, for either one, two
three years service, az the recruit may elect
III; Enrolel men or taeir substitutes have the
privilege OF electing the company and regiment
IN which they viii safve. by voiul teering la these
but il drafted such liberty is neces.
sarily denied them
III ihs STATE bounties to all volunteers and to
substitutes eniis ed PRIOR to the draf Is Sl0O $500
or $500, acc riding to the period of their enlistment
for 2, or years and the U. S. bounty the same
TO all volunteers and repre- entatiye recruits Sub.
States Bounty.
~ The officers ofthese companies will be select.
Cd from those who have served at least nine months
IA the field unless very special exist par
tieular cases.
saen Immediate action sho AID be taken by
citizens not liable to enrolment. de- irng to avoid
draft in their community and BY clubs Of enrolled
men. as will make it Tor the interest ofthe
latter to volunteer instead of entering servicc as
drafted men.
vi. Concerted action initiated in cities and pop.
uious places and extending TO the suburbs and ad.
yaeent towns embodying the partial selection OF Of
hceTs and non commissioned officers may insure the
adoption at once, of such plans OF procedure, as
will guarantee the raising a smpany in every in
stance where IL is undertaken, But any officer
lected as above, should be a person who has served
hpnoraby for at least nine months or the selection
may not be confirmed by the Governor.
VII. The following rules will be adhered to in
raising these compani,s
LIST No fees. premiums or expenses viii be paid
I'd. Each volunteer must be examined and ar
proved by local physician. Who will be paid Is cts
Tor his services but the physician is not 10 Sign the
certificate of such examina len up On the enlistment
paper, that being for the authorized su geon who
makes the fnalexaminaiion a. the muster in.
81. A Justice OF the Peace will a1mnis.e or the
oath the recruit and MI anu sign the ceri6cate
on the face of the enlistment.
4th. When the enlistment is for q less period
than 3ytars, the blank wi b. changed to exhibit
the fact.
9Th. Each company must comprise one hundred
and one enlis'e men, and as soon as that number
OF sui able persons. who are eligible to enlistment
have each sigAed three ,nlisimoni papers, part
OF each enlistment with the names OF persons des-
ignated for the commits Toned officers % the COM
pany and their residence and the place of the rem
devious OF the Company, will be forwarded the
AoJatant General who W II arrange with Major
Gardiner, u. s. Military sup, riniendent for the
transportation, muster in, clothing, arming and
coupling of the company.
VI. If the company Is detained beyond the time
/ of which reasonable notice is given the Adjutant
General that it will assemble at its rendezvous 10
leave Tor the place OF muster, forty cents day per
man Will be allowed for boa and lodging for the
period of such detention and the tims occupied in
I coming in from the conf any rendezvous.
VII SO much of General Order Twenty-Seveu
OF the 10th ult as pres sribes rules governing mil
ments aud credits for quotas and amount of boun-
! ties and enume rates the persons entitled thereto
and eligible to eniistmenis. ia applicable to these
J thirty companies
/ Extract from War Department authority of July
Is, 1854, to raise these companies.
"lhe said companies must be mustered in before
Sept. o. lS64 in order that they may be credited on
( the quota OF the STATE under the aforesaid cal
/ "Should any of the companiel nil to organize
within reasonable time they will be consolidated
I psuies before the aforesaid dates"
By order of His Excelency the Governor.
JOHN L. H0DsDoN,
Adjutant-General.