Rules & Regulations Respecting the Recruiting Service
Document 1799Explains the rules and regulations regarding the recruiting service with emphasis on those who are eligible for enlistment. Only citizens can be enlisted but persons not born in a specific State who lived in same before July 4, 1796 may be declared citizens for the purpose of enlistment. Anyone who has immigrated since that day must produce a certificate of naturalization from a magistrate or court before he can be enlisted. Neither apprentices nor intoxicated persons may be enlisted.
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Copy of Signed Document
Description
Explains the rules and regulations regarding the recruiting service with emphasis on those who are eligible for enlistment. Only citizens can be enlisted but persons not born in a specific State who lived in same before July 4, 1796 may be declared citizens for the purpose of enlistment. Anyone who has immigrated since that day must produce a certificate of naturalization from a magistrate or court before he can be enlisted. Neither apprentices nor intoxicated persons may be enlisted.
Date
06/06/1799
Author
Sent from
New York
Document number
1799060637501
Page start
4
Note
General Orders of Major General Hamilton for publication.
Notable persons
Abraham R. Ellery
Commanding Officer on the Mississippi
Alexander Hamilton
magistrates
citizens
immigrants
apprentices
Notable locations
New York
Notable items
instructions
citizenship
enlistment
inlistment
immigration
certificate of naturalization
affidavit of two reputable inhabitants of the country
recruitment
oaths
residency
money
age
intoxication
justice
propriety
conduct of hte military service