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Recruiting INSTRUCTIONS For Captain Bezaleel Howe-- of the Infantry-- in the Service of the United States.

SIR, [1st line crossed out]

    You are immediately to commence the

recruiting service in the State of --New York-- The principal rendezvous will be at West Point-- [line crossed out]

    Your recruits will be furnished by--the Contractor--

[long line] with rations, barracks, barrack utensils, straw and fuel; and also with such necessary medicinal assistance as they may require.

    The recruiting service is sometimes abused, both as it respects the individuals

recruited and the public at large, --that is, recruits are unwarily and unwor- thily entangled contrary to their intentions: Such men generally desert the service, at some critical moment, or serve grudgingly, and set bad examples to others; or, unsuitable persons are engaged, who are constitutionally defective and unfit for the hardships incident to a military life.

    Although I recruiting officer may require peculiar talents to obtain uncommon H success, yet it is in the power of every officer to conduct himself with H kandor, integrity and industry. H in order therefore to avoid the errors of this business, the following instructions H are to serve as the general rules and principles of your conduct: H first period the recruits are tibyan listed for 3 years, unless sooner discharged. Each second each recruit is to receive a bounty of $8; line but no part of H this song is to be advanced until the recruit shall have been fairly in listed and H sworn before a magistrate, according to the form here in prescribed, and then H only the said some is to be advanced in such proportions as the judgment of the