General Orders Regarding the Prohibition of Gambling.
Document 1800Describes gambling as a vice and orders that no officer or solider may play cards or dice within one mile of the camp, garrison, or post at which he may be stationed.
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never [undecipherable] to futher every article of Clothing given to a recruit. Who, when inspection Shall be found, to have been ought for [undecipherable] at the time of his enlistment shall be taken from him returning to the United States
Division Camp January 28, 1800
Major General Pinckney is desirous [undecipherable] the General order of the 4 instant [undecipherable] for the present, no place for safe Confinement of Deserters within his division, Fort Norfolk in Virginia, Fort Johnston [undecipherable] in South Carolina, Fort Wilkinson, Fort [undecipherable: probable reading Guay], Fort Pickering in Georgia.
[undecipherable] Charles [undecipherable] Pinckney
Major General
General Orders January 15, 1800
Gambling a vice destructive to the reputation of an Army, is fraught with every evil — not only to those who suffer themselves to engage in it, but to the Army in which it is tolerated, is Strictly forbidden; it is [undecipherable] evident, that no Officer, or Soldier plays at any game with [undecipherable] or dice, at or within one mile of the Camp, Garrison or Fort, at which he may be stationed, nor for money at any Game Whatsoever.
Signed W. North. Adj: Gen.
Extract Gen. Order Jany 27 1800
It is directed by the Secretary of War by Instructions dated January 25, 1800. That Recruits in the Fortifications upon the Seaboard, and at [undecipherable] frontiers, receive in future [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] per month as [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Soldiers
Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
Describes gambling as a vice and orders that no officer or solider may play cards or dice within one mile of the camp, garrison, or post at which he may be stationed.
Date
01/10/1800
Author
Document number
1800011090301
Page start
1
Note
Hamilton as commanding General is the "Author" of this General Order. It is signed by William North the Adjutant General.
Notable persons
[Alexander Hamilton]
William North, Adjutant General

