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     4th. Get that most pharaonis is to be used by the recruiting officers, in engaging H their recruits; no individual therefore is to be in listed in a state of intoxication H, or be sworn until after he shall have been enlisted for the space of 24 hours. H fifth period each recruit musicians excepted must be 5 feet and 5 inches in 8 H Heights, without shoes: line he must also be healthy, robust, and fundinn his H limbs and body, in all respects; and to ascertain which he must be thoroughly H Examined, previously to enlistment, by a physician for surgeon; line but if, not H with standing this direction, a recruit should have any secret disease at the time H of his enlistment, they expensive his cure, if retained in service, shall be deducted H From his pay.
 
     4th. Get that most pharaonis is to be used by the recruiting officers, in engaging H their recruits; no individual therefore is to be in listed in a state of intoxication H, or be sworn until after he shall have been enlisted for the space of 24 hours. H fifth period each recruit musicians excepted must be 5 feet and 5 inches in 8 H Heights, without shoes: line he must also be healthy, robust, and fundinn his H limbs and body, in all respects; and to ascertain which he must be thoroughly H Examined, previously to enlistment, by a physician for surgeon; line but if, not H with standing this direction, a recruit should have any secret disease at the time H of his enlistment, they expensive his cure, if retained in service, shall be deducted H From his pay.
  
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     6th. Eat rekrut, before he is sworn, is to have distinctly read to him the H rules and articles of war Against him utny and assertion, and relative to the administration H of justice; and also the act of Congress of the 30th of April 1790, H Is stab lising the rations, clothing, and compensation in cases of disability; and H the act of the fifth March 1792, establishing the pay; after which he is to take H the following both, before I magistrate, to quit: H
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     6th. Eat rekrut, before he is sworn, is to have distinctly read to him the H rules and articles of war Against him utny and assertion, and relative to the administration H of justice; and also the act of Congress of the 30th of April 1790, H Is stab lising the rations, clothing, and compensation in cases of disability; and H the act of the fifth March 1792, establishing the pay; after which he is to take H the following both, before I magistrate, to wit:
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    "I A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be_ to bear true alle-
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giance to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully H against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever, and to observe and to H obey the orders of the president of the United States of America, and the orders H of the officers appointed over me according to the articles of war. H seventh period each recruit musicians accepted must be above eighteen and under
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forty five years of age.
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8th. No negro, mulatto, or indian, to be recruited.
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    9th. Al the recruits, if possible to be natives of fair conduct, or foreigners
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of good characters for sobriety and fidelity, and who have been some years in
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