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EXECUTIVE ORDERS.Call for Quota of 500,000.STATE Of INDIANA,Adjutant General’s Office,Indianapolis, July 28th, 18C4. general orders.It is announced that under the President's call of July 18th, 1864, for 500,000 volunteers, the quota of Indiana has been fixed at 35,732, which is subject to a credit of about 12,000, dot excess of men furnished on former culls. Notwithstanding this excess for the State, a number of townships are delinquent, to fill which about 2,300 in the aggregate will be required of them.Time is given until the 5th of September to fill this quota, and men wilt be enlisted and accepted for either one, two, or three years, to serve in whatever regiment of infantry or cavalry or battery of artillery they may individually select.No new compauies can be accepted at present, but any qualified person coming well recommended who will enlist thirty men under the call for any company in auy old regiment or any battery, eo as to bring the company up to the standard, will bo appointed a Lieutenant in such company. This plan enables acquaintances in particular localities to enlist together and enter the service in a body, and at the same timo will afford them the advantage of being thrown with well disciplined soldiers.REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS.Persons unfit for military service and not liable to draft, who desire to be personally represented in the army, may present recruits to so represent them. Any persons so desiring can present such recruit to the District Provost Marshal, who will enlist and muster him and isssua certificate of such personal representation.SUBSTITUTES.Substitutes, white men or black, may be furnished either before or after the draft upon being properly enlisted and presented to the District Provost Marshal.COLORED VOLUNTEERS.Colored persons will be enlisted and accepted as recruits for the 28th regiment United States Colored Volunteers, or ftDy other regiment of colored volunteers in the service, and will be entitled to the same bounty andpay as other United States soldiers.BOUNTIES.The bounty provided by law is as follows:For recruits lincludiug representative recruits)white oi colored, for uqb year.......... I UK)two years, 200three years 300The first instalments of bounty will bepaid by the mustering and disbursing officerswhen the recruit is mustered in ub follows:Recruit w ho eulists in the army for o a® year .$33 33 '* two years.... (iti f)6............three yeara.... 10U 00PREMIUMS.No premiums whatever for the procuration of recruits will hereafter be paid by the United States. This, however will not affect tho payment of premiums due for the procuration of recruits previous to the dato of ibis order.Neither drafted men nor substitute*— furnished cither before or after draft—are entitled to bounty from the United States. The fact as to w hether the man is a recruit entitled to bounty, or a drafted man or substitute not entitled to it, shall be noted i on the enlistment papers and muster-in-rolls.By order ol Governor Morton.| Laz. Noble,Adj’t Gen. Indiana.
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Sat, Jul 30, 1864
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