The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-26
HERE 'SADOMBSHELL
New Jersey Militia Consoli-
dated Into Three
Regiments.
OFFICERS OUT OF A JOB.
Full Text Of General Plume's
Sweeping Order in Re-
lation to the Matter.
A Nut for the Fourth and Second
to Crack at Their Leisure.

A Nut for the Fourth and Second
to Crack at Their Leisure.
Major General Plume has issued an
order that has thrown for the present
into chaos all the militia organizations
in the State. 1t is the disbanding of the
Fourth and Second Regiments and their
consolidation into one regiment. and the
iisbandIag and annalgamating of other
regiments, battalions and companies.
There have been heretofore five regi-
mepts and two battalions. Hereafter
there will simply be three regiments. In
the meantime Colonel Wanser and all Of
his staff and non-commissioned oft1-
GERS in the Fourth Regiment and
Colonel Stevens and his staff and non
commissioned officers of the Second
Regiment are, SO to speak, "out of a
job"
The following is tine full text of Gen
eral Plume's sweeping ORDER
HEAD. QUARTERS DIVISION,
THE NATIONAL GUARD
OF NEW JERSEY.
Newark. Mag 81. 1892.
GENERAL ORDERS.
No. z.
The following reorganization of the
First Brigade Is hsreby ordered. prepara-
tory to the battalion formation" to take
effect on Tuesday. the 31st day of May.
instant.
I. Company f, First Regiment, is
hereby consolidated into Company G,
First Regiment. Company D, Fifth
Regiment, is hereby consolidated into
Company G, Fifth Regiment. Company
F, Fifth Regiment, is hereby consolidated
into Company H. Fifth Regiment
Commandants of Company G, First
Regiment, and Companies G and H, Fifth
Regiment, will select eighty of the best
enlisted men of their respective COM
panies after consolidation, and return the
remainder. through the proper channels.
for honorable discharge.
II. Companies A, B, G. d and E. First
Regiment; Companies G, E. G and H,
Fifth Regiment. and the Third Battalion,
are hereby consolidated into one regiment.
III. The Second and Fourth Regiments
are hereby consolidated into one regi-
,ment.
w. The First and Second Battalions,
Company G, First REGIMENT. and Com
pany B, Fourth Regiment, are hereby
consolidated into one regiment.
v. The numerical designation OF the
new regiments above created will be an
nounced by the Adjutant General
vi. All Field and Staff Officers. and the
Officers of Company F, First Regiment,
and Companies d and F, Fifth Regiment,
except the Brigade Staff, will be placed
upon the retired list by the Adiutant
General.
All Non-Commissioned Staff Officers,
except the Brigade Non-Commissioned
Staff, will be honorably discharged.
EVIL. Should any of the Field and Staff
officers. who have been retired by this
order, be elected or appointed to their
former offices, they will be commissioned
to take rank from the dattas given in
their former commissions.
Should any of the Non-commissioned
ST IF officers who have been honorably
discharged by this order be appointed &c
their former offices, they will be war.
ranted under the date of their prior war
rants.
VIII. Any commissioned officer. who
hns peen retired by this order. and not re-
elected or reappointed to his former Office.
who has faithfully served as commits
stoned officer over fourteen years. will be
retired with brevet rank and commits
sion OF uOL uOE6 tudn OAC AL&OO hi6hOA
than the highest rank held by him dur
in g his term of office,
TX. Paymasters will at once turn over tc
the Paymaster of the Brigade all moneys
remaining in their hands in compliance
with Par 100 of the new compilation oi
the laws governing the National Guard.
x. Quartermasters will retain possess
sion of the property for which they are
responsible. until the Qaartermaster OF
the new regiment into which their organ
ization has been consolidated. is appoint
ed, when they will turn over to him all
the property, taking duplicate receipts for
the same. and forwarding one of the re-
ceipts to the Quartermaster General.
XII Senior Captains will at once assume
command of their respective regiments,
and will retain the same until field OH