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others; or, unsuitable persons are engaged, who are constitutionally defective
 
others; or, unsuitable persons are engaged, who are constitutionally defective
 
and unfit for the hardships incident to a military life.
 
and unfit for the hardships incident to a military life.
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    Although a recruiting officer may require peculiar talents to obtain uncommon
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success, yet it is in the power of every officer to conduct himself with
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candor, integrity and industry.
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    In order therefore to avoid the errors of this business, the following instruc-
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tions are to serve as the general rules and principles of your conduct:
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    1st. The recruits are to be inlisted for three years, unless sooner discharged.
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    2d. Each recruit is to receive a bounty of Eight Dollars;-- but no part of
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this sum is to be advanced until the recruit shall have been fairly inlisted and
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sworn before a Magistrate, according to the form herein prescribed, and then
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only the said sum is to be advanced in such proportions as the judgment of the
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[stamp on left]
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[Man]uscript Department
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[The] New-York Historical Society
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[illegible] 70 Central Park West
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FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY
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