The Portland daily press., 1864-08-25
STATE OF MAINE.

General Orf'eI No. %.
l. Thirty Companies of Infantry for Regiments
in the held AMI 10 be eeaited upon the present cal,
authorized oy tue War Department TO be raised
In this srats from Volunteers, for either one. two
three years service, as The recrui may elect.
H. Enrollea men their ubsfitutts have the
IN which they will s.Iye. by volunteering ia these
organizations: but if dra ted, such liberty
sarily deoied them
III ihs State bounties to all yolun eers and TO
substitutes enlis ed prior to the drs s sl0o. $500.
$500, riding to the period OF their enlistment
for /. 2. or years and the L. s. bounty the same
to all volunteers aud representative recruits Sub.
stitutes Tor enrolled men are not entitlsd to United
States Bounty.
~ The officers ofthese companies will be select
ed from those WIN have served at Last nine months
in the ed unless very special reasons exist Ia par
ticular cases.
sacn immediate action sho aid be taken by
citizens not liable TO enromebi. detiring TO avoid
draft ia their community, and by clubs Of enrolled
men. will max it ior the pecu isry interest ofhe
latter, TO volunteer instead OF entering service
drafted men.
vi Concerted action Initiated In citiesa and nop
nous plac aud extending to the suburbs ana ad.
jacent towns embodyin the partial selection OF Of
hcers and non commissioned efhcers may sure the
adoption. st once, of such plans Of procesdure.
will hu lfantee the raisug q ympany in every
stance where 1t is undertake en-, but any ofcer Sc
>lected as above, shou be person who has served
hnnorsbly for at least nine months the selection
may not be confirmed by the Governor.
VII. The following rules will be adhered to In
raising these companies.
LIST. NO fees. premiums expenses will be paid
for making the enIstmenis.
I'd. Each volunteer must be examined and ap-
proved by local physician, who will b. paid Is cts
his services; but the physician is not to sign
cerhcate of sush examina ien upOn he enlis sSment
paper, that being for the authorizes geon, who
m skes the final exs minati the muster in.
Sd. Justice OF the Peace will administer the
oatn 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 vi b. changed 10 exhibit
the fact.
9TH Each company must comprise one hundred
and one eniis ed men, aud as soon as that number
OF suitable persons. who eligible TO enlistment
have each sigBed three enlistment psper- one part
OF each enlistment with the names of persons des-
ignated for the cJmmis- ionea officers o the COM
pany and their residence, and the place of the
dezgons of The Company, will be forwarded the
Aojutant General. who W II arrange with Major
Gardiner, u. 5. Military sup,ria endeni. for the
transportation, muster in clothing, arming and
coupling of the COMPANY.
" Ii the company is detained beyond the time
of which reasonable lotice is gwen the Adjutant
General that IT will assemble its rendezvous TO
leave Tor the place Of MUSTER forty cents day per
man will be allowed Tor boa aud lodging the
period of such detention and the tim occ lped in
coming in from the CONF any rendezvous.
VII. So much of General Order Twenty Seven
of the 20ih ut rules governing enli-
ments and credits for gu 1tas aud am lunt of boun
ties aad umsrates the persons entitled thereto
and eligible TO enlistmenls, il applicable to these
thirty companies
Extract from War Department authority Of July
%. 1854, to raise these compsnies.l
"ihe said companies must be mustered in before
Sept 8, 1864, in order that ther be credited
the quota OF the State ander the Aforesaid ca l."
should any of the companies all to organize
within a reasonable time. they will BE- consolidated
so as to form and be mustered in as complete coa
pAnies before the aforesaid dates"
BY Order of His Excellency the Governor
JOHN l.. HoDsroN.
Adjutan;- General.
Aug 4-dlw