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Recruiting officer shell dictate, until experience cherrelyn some degree have ascertained H the Fidelity of the recruit. any money advanced contrary to this direction, H will be at the risk RISQUE of the recruiting officer. H 3 D. Every recruiting officer will be allowed the sum of 2 dollars, for the H trouble and expense of enlisting each recruit; Line provided however, that's such H allowance will not be made for any recruit who shall desert before he shell H March from the rendezvous of the troops in the state where he shall have been H recruited.
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recruiting officer shall dictate, until experience shall in some degree have ascer-
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tained the fidelity of the recruit. Any money advanced contrary to this direc-
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tion, will be at the risque of the recruiting officer.  
  
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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.
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     3d. Every recruiting officer will be allowed the sum of Two Dollars, for the
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trouble and expense of inlisting each recruit;-- provided however, that such
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allowance will not be made for any recruit who shall desert before he shall
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marched from the rendezvous of the troops in the State where he shall have been
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recruited.
  
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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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    4th. The utmost fairness is to be used by the recruiting officers, in engaging
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their recruits; no individual therefore is to be inlisted in a state of intoxica-
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tion, or be sworn until after he shall have been inlisted for the space of twenty four hours.
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    5th. Each recruit (musicians excepted) must be five feet and five inches in
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heighth, without shoes: -- he must also be healthy, robust, and found in his
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limbs and body, in all respects; and to ascertain which he must be thoroughly examined, previously to enlistment, by a Physician or Surgeon; -- but if, not-
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withstanding this direction, a recruit should have any secret disease at the time
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of his enlistment, the expence of his cure, if retained in service, shall be deducted
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from his pay.
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     6th. Each recruit, before he is sworn, is to have distinctly read to him the
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rules and articles of war against mutiny and desertion, and relative to the administration
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of justice; and also the act of Congress of the 30th of April 1790,  
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establishing the rations, clothing, and compensation in cases of disability; and
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the Act of the 5th March 1792, establishing the pay; after which he is to take
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the following oath, before a 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
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against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever, and to observe and to
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obey the orders of the President of the United States of America, and the orders
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of the officers appointed over me according to the articles of war.
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    7th. Each recruit (musicians excepted) 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. All 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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