General Orders New York June 6^th 1799— Pursuant to the Instructions from the Se[cretary] of War, the following addition to the rules and regu[lations] respecting the recruiting Service are to be observe[d.] None but Citizens of the United States shall be Inli[sted,] persons not born within the said States who ar[e] within the same on the 4^th day of July 1796 sh[all] be declared Citizens for the purpose of Inlistm[ent,] every person not born within the United Sta[tes] who have emmagrated hither since [—] must produce a Certificate of Naturalizatio[n] from Some competent Magistrate or Court bef[ore] he Can be inlisted any person whosoever not b[orn] within the United States before he Can be inli[sted] must produce proofs by the affidavits of two reputable inhabitants of the County or [—] he Shall offer himself to be inlisted taken a[nd] Certified by one Magistrate authorized to ad[minister] Oaths that he resided in Such Coun[ty] for at least one year Immediately precedi[ng] the time when he Shall so offer himself to [be] Inlisted. The said Certificates and affidavit[s] when respectively necessary Shall be prod[uced] to the Officer who Shall first Muster an[d] Recruit to whom they are [undecipherable] after he Shall have Joined his regiment towards the Justification of the Officer by whom he Shall have been inlisted — Apprentices Shall on no pretense be inlisted, if any apprentice shall be inlisted though Ignorance of the Officer inlisting him he Shall be discharged first refunding and returning any Money or other articles which he may have received. — Major General Hamilton enjoins the Strict observance of these regulations as [undecipherable: probable reading "points"] Material Consequence to the Service he equally enjoins a particular attention to those parts of the Original rules and regulations which forbid the inlistment of persons in a State of Intoxication and limits the age within which recruits must be inlisted. It is learned with regret that in Several instances they have not been particularly attended to, a faithfull army is Preferably to a numerous one and a regard to Justice and propriety in the [c]onduct of every part of the Military Service Cannot fail ultimately to promote the honour and interest of those Concerned in it as well as the public good — It is expected that the commanders of Regiments will carefuly advert to all willfull and Negligent breaches of these rules and if any occur will exert the means which the articles of war provide provide