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CALL TO ARMS.
Gov. Voorhees, Orders Out
Three Regiments Of the
National Guards Of
This state.
FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD TO 60
Three Companies Of the Sixth
Regiment and One Company
of the Seventh Also
Named for Service
SEA GIRT THE RENDEZVOUS
Regiments 10 Leave Their Armories
on Friday and Saturday and
Serve for Two Years.
SEA GIRT THE RENDEZVOUS

Special to line Jersey City NEWS.
TRENTON, April q, 1Sss.-Governor
VOORHEES, his morning issued orders call
ing out the First, Second and Third Regi-
ments of the National Guard, and Com
panies A, c and G Of the Sixth Regiment.
and Company Of the Seventh Regiment.
Company A is at Burlington, Companies
c and G at Camden, and Company E at
Freehold. The United States will send
a regular army officer to Sea Girt to mus
ter in the men,
The official order issued this morning
reads
General Orders No. A.
In compliance with instructions from
the Secretary of War, dated April 70,
1888, the Governor and COMMANDMENT
Chief is required to organize from the
militia of this State three regiments Of
infantry for active service in the war
with Spain, to serve for two years unless
sooner discharged.
Each regiment will be organized into
three battalions of four companies each,
with one Colonel, one Heutenant-colonel,
two majors one adjutant, one quarter
master, one surgeon, two assistant sur
geons. one chaplain, one sergeant major,
one quartermaster sergeant, one chief
musician, two principal musicians, three
hospital stewards, and one captain, one
first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one
first sergeant. one quartermaster SER
geant four sergeants, twelve corporals,
two musicians, one artificer, one wagon
and fifty-nine privates maximum and
fifty-five minimum to each of the twelve
companies
1.-THE First, Second and Third Regiments
and Companies A, c and G, Sixth Regi-
ment, and Company E, Seventh Regi-
ment (the companies named to consti-
tute a battalion of the Third Regiment),
National Guard, are hereby detailed for
this duty.
enlisted men to be accepted for this
service must be between the ages of eigh-
teen and forty-five years and pass pre-
liminary examination by the medical Off
GERS of the National Guard as to their
fitness for the service They must be able
to SO arrange their affairs that their en-
listment will not disastrously affect their
private business or withdraw from these
dependent upon them their needed sup
port.
Colonels of the designated regiments
will forward direct to this office list OF
the officers recommended by them for
commissions by the Governor under the
terms of this CALL
All officers and enlisted men in the Ma
tional Guard who enter the volunteer ser
vice shall be considered as absent with
leave during the term of this service.
The State camp at Sea Girt is desig-
mated as the rendezvous for the mobili-
zation of these regiments.
BY order Of the Comamnder-in-C Chief,
D L L
Adjutant General.
The men will go to Sea Girt on Friday OF
saturday. Before going to the camp they
viii have to undergo a physical examina-
ton at their armories.
Colonies Campbell and Hine, command
ing the First and Second Regiments, are
likely to be called upon to solve each q
somewhat knotty problem growing out OF
the general eorder issued this morning,
The order required that three regiments
of twelve companies each be ordered
OUT. Each regiment shall consist of three
battalions. The order, however, pro-
vides for only two majors to each regi-
ment instead Of three, as at present con-
stituted. Military men construe this as
meaning that the Lieutenant Colonel OF
each regiment shall serve as Major
for the Third Battalion of such regiment
SO that one of the present Majors of the
First and Second Regiments will be left
at home. unless there should happen tc
be captaincy vacant
The report in Governor VOORHEES, pos
session shows that every captain in the
First ana Second Regiments is more thar
w;i.ing to 90 at once into active service
AS the designation Of the officers is, BY
tie general order, left entirely to the col
anal s,f astfsY, regiment il is possible that