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recruiting officer shall dictate, until experience shall in some degree have ascer-
tained the fidelity of the recruit. Any money advanced contrary to this direc-
tion, will be at the risque of the recruiting officer.

3d. Every recruiting officer will be allowed the sum of Two Dollars, for the
trouble and expense of inlisting each recruit;-- provided however, that such 
allowance will not be made for any recruit who shall desert before he shall
marched from the rendezvous of the troops in the State where he shall have been
recruited.

4th. The utmost fairness is to be used by the recruiting officers, in engaging
their recruits; no individual therefore is to be inlisted in a state of intoxica-
tion, or be sworn until after he shall have been inlisted for the space of twenty four hours.

5th. Each recruit (musicians excepted) must be five feet and five inches in
heighth, without shoes: -- he must also be healthy, robust, and found in his 
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-
withstanding this direction, a recruit should have any secret disease at the time
of his enlistment, the expence of his cure, if retained in service, shall be deducted
from his pay.

6th. Each recruit, before he is sworn, is to have distinctly read to him the
rules and articles of war against mutiny and desertion, and relative to the administration
of justice; and also the act of Congress of the 30th of April 1790, 
establishing the rations, clothing, and compensation in cases of disability; and
the Act of the 5th March 1792, establishing the pay; after which he is to take
the following oath, before a Magistrate, to wit:

"I A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) to bear true alle-
giance to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully
against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever, and to observe and to
obey the orders of the President of the United States of America, and the orders
of the officers appointed over me according to the articles of war.

7th. Each recruit (musicians excepted) must be above eighteen and under
forty five years of age.

8th. No negro, mulatto, or indian, to be recruited.

9th. All the recruits, if possible, to be natives of fair conduct, or foreigners
of good characters for sobriety and fidelity, and who have been some years in

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recruiting officer shall dictate, until experience shall in some degree have ascer- tained the fidelity of the recruit. Any money advanced contrary to this direc- tion, will be at the risque of the recruiting officer.

    3d. Every recruiting officer will be allowed the sum of Two Dollars, for the

trouble and expense of inlisting each recruit;-- provided however, that such allowance will not be made for any recruit who shall desert before he shall marched from the rendezvous of the troops in the State where he shall have been recruited.

    4th. The utmost fairness is to be used by the recruiting officers, in engaging

their recruits; no individual therefore is to be inlisted in a state of intoxica- tion, or be sworn until after he shall have been inlisted for the space of twenty four hours.

    5th. Each recruit (musicians excepted) must be five feet and five inches in

heighth, without shoes: -- he must also be healthy, robust, and found in his 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- withstanding this direction, a recruit should have any secret disease at the time of his enlistment, the expence of his cure, if retained in service, shall be deducted from his pay.

    6th. Each recruit, before he is sworn, is to have distinctly read to him the

rules and articles of war against mutiny and desertion, and relative to the administration of justice; and also the act of Congress of the 30th of April 1790, establishing the rations, clothing, and compensation in cases of disability; and the Act of the 5th March 1792, establishing the pay; after which he is to take the following oath, before a Magistrate, to wit:

    "I A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) to bear true alle-

giance to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever, and to observe and to obey the orders of the President of the United States of America, and the orders of the officers appointed over me according to the articles of war.

    7th. Each recruit (musicians excepted) must be above eighteen and under

forty five years of age.

8th. No negro, mulatto, or indian, to be recruited.

    9th. All the recruits, if possible, to be natives of fair conduct, or foreigners

of good characters for sobriety and fidelity, and who have been some years in

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