Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-08-12
The National Guard.


Capt. WILT has issued the following Gen
eral Order to his company:
ARMoRY Co. "a" 9th Regt. n. G.. Pa
TOwANDA, PA, August 4th 1881
GENERAL ORDER No. o.
/. General Order No 4 from Division Head
quarters fixes the time for the Encampment
from August 23d to August Goth 1881, at
WilkesBarre, Pa.
III. Transportation, camp and garrison
equipage, and subsistence will be furnished
III. The annual inspection by the Adjutant
General, during said encampment. is announ-
ced to take place OH Thursday August 25th
at 3 p. m.
w. The Brigade will be reviewed by the
Commander-in-C Chief on Saturday August 9th
at 4 p. m.
V. The Commander-in-Chief, in General
Order No. II. announces the following:
"The inspection Will be rigorous. Especial
attention will begiven to care and condition
of clothing and equipments, and number of
articles of each on hand. All rolls must be
completed as near as may be before leaving
the rendezvous. These encampments are
held under the provisions Of and by authori-
v
the attendance of all who hold commissions
or are serving a term of enlistment.
Excuses for absence will be entertained
for such reasons only as would prevail in ac-
tual service. Officers and men can only be
absent from this service by permission of the
Brigade Commander.
''To be effective and instructive, the en-
campment demands the continuous attend
ance of each individual for the whole time
provided for. There will be no payment for
partial service. If leave of absence or fur
lough be granted upon surgeons certificate Of
disability, where the disability arises I'm camp,
or by reason of serious illness or death in the
soldiers family, occurring while he is on his
tour of duty, the payment will be in full"
days, and you will receive pay for five, re-
quring you to lose one day only. In accord
ance with orders from headquarters none can
be excused from the attendance at this en-
campment, except by the Brigade Command
er.
VII. All fines and dues for non-attendance
at drills, are hereby remitted up to June Sth
1881. From this date, (June Sth), all fines will
be charged aud reported to Headquarters, in
accordance with the law now in force. The
fines for non attendance at regular drills are
as follows: Commissioned officers, % cts, Ser
geants 20, Corporas 10, privates, 10 For abb
sence from company parade the following are
the fines fixed: Commissioned officers fifty
cents; seargeants, forty cents; corporals,
thirty cents; priyates, twenty ceets.
VIII. The book, ''The Sentinel and his
Duties" will be issued to each member of
the company, as company property. A care
full study of the book will be required. Off
GERS and men must understand guard mount
ing and their duties, while serving tour of
guard. Hereafter members of the company
will be reprmanded or punished for ignor-
ance of Guard mounting or the duties of a
sentinel.
TX. The members of the company will re-
port at the Armory on Saturday, 20 of Au-
gust, 1881 at one O'Clock p. NJ. sharp for an
out door drill and company parade, with
knapsack, haversack and canteen.
X. The following appointment of non-com-
missioned officers is announced:
1st Sergeant, John McIntire.
Sergeants. COrporalS.
John Taylor. Joseph Vincent.
Frederic G. Heath. M. A. Moody.
Porter Stratton. G.. L. Mead.
Edw. A. Thompson.
j. ANDREW WILT,
CGDtQiU.