General Orders: Temporary Suspension of Recruiting Service
Document 1800The Recruiting Service, respecting the twelve Regiments of Infantry and six troops of Light Dragoons, is for the present suspended. All officers assigned to that service will rejoin their Regiments.
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Document Signed
Description
The Recruiting Service, respecting the twelve Regiments of Infantry and six troops of Light Dragoons, is for the present suspended. All officers assigned to that service will rejoin their Regiments.
Date
03/11/1800
Author
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Adjutant General's Office, New York
Collection
Document number
1800031190001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Hamilton to Pinckney, 04/29/1800, North to Hamilton, 04/15/1800, and Hamilton to Rice and Smith, 04/23/1800.
contains document summary and response to orders issued on 03/11/00 dated 04/24/00.
Recruitment for units authorized by Congress in July 1798 to be suspended, recruiting officers to report to their regiments, and unit returns to be forwarded with speed. Also includes regulations on barracks/quarters allotted by rank, and allowances of wood fuel by rank. Stipulated that monetary compensation is not due to officers who need not partake of quarters or fuel allowance -- notes that this does not preclude officers who had to pay for these things _before_ establishment of the regulation from applying for reimbursement. Concludes with contract prices for rations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Notable persons
William North
officers
Congress
Notable locations
Adjutant General's Office
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
barracks
Notable items
wood fuel
fuel allowance
rations
quarters
contract prices