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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 I recruiting officer may require peculiar talents to obtain uncommon
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     Although a recruiting officer may require peculiar talents to obtain uncommon
 
success, yet it is in the power of every officer to conduct himself with
 
success, yet it is in the power of every officer to conduct himself with
 
candor, integrity and industry.
 
candor, integrity and industry.
  
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     In order therefore to avoid the errors of this business, the following instructions
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     In order therefore to avoid the errors of this business, the following instruc-
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are to serve as the general rules and principles of your conduct:
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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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    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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    2d. Each recruit is to receive a bounty of Eight Dollars;-- but no part of
 
this sum is to be advanced until the recruit shall have been fairly inlisted and  
 
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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sworn before a Magistrate, according to the form herein prescribed, and then
 
only the said sum is to be advanced in such proportions as the judgment of the
 
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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