
Two Dollars will be allowed to each Non Commission’d Officer, and Soldier, who provides himself with a good Blanket, and Liberty to take it away at the end of the campaign the present ample allowance of provisions will be continued, and those who inlist, will be indulged in a reasonable time, to visit their familys, in the Course of the winter, This to be regulated in such a manner, as not to weaken the army, or injure the service. New Cloathing will forthwith be provided, for every Non Commission’d Officer & Soldier, for which an easy Stoppage, of only ten Shillings a Month, will be made out of his pay, until the whole is paid. In the General Orders of the 31st of October, it is declared, that every Non Commission’d Officer and Soldier, shall be paid by the Kalander month, as follows, to a Serjeant forty-eight Shillings, to the Corporals forty-four, 2 and forty to each private which pay it is expected, will be regularly distributed, every month-Each Non Commissioned Officer, and Soldier, (Drums & Fifes excepted) is to furnish his own Arms if Arms are found him, he is to allow Six shillings, at the end of the Campaign for the use thereof. The Soldiers as the printed Inlistments express to be engaged to serve untill the last day of December 1776. 1, August 1945 – U.S.Each Colonel upon the new-establishment, to come to Head Quarters, to morrow morning ten OClock, in order to receive from the Adjutant General, as many printed Inlistments, as there are commission’d Officers in his Regiment-They will therefore without delay distribute One to each Officer, who isįorthwith to proceed to inlist men for their respective Regiments in the Continental Army. 3, June 19th, 1865 - Abolition of slavery in Texas after the American Civil War. Lee's surrender that ended the American Civil War 9, April 1865 – Confederate General Robert E. 11, August 1863 – Union expulsion of residents of four Missouri counties which were to be burned 100, April 1863 – Union instructions on the treatment of prisoners not giving quarter becomes punishable offense 11, December 1862 – Union expulsion of the Jews of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky

The officers are required to return the salute to the enlisted person, but the name of each enlisted man, the name of each officer, and the exact time for the salute are not mentioned in the order. For example, in most military agencies, there is a standing order for enlisted men to salute officers. Standing orders are necessarily general and vague since the exact circumstances for execution occur in the future, under unknown conditions.

What makes it a general order (as opposed to a direct order) is that the actor is not explicitly named, nor precisely what (or who) is to be acted upon.Ī general order of indefinite duration may be referred to as a standing order. Its purpose is to enforce a policy or procedure unique to the unit's situation that is not otherwise addressed in applicable service regulations, military law, or public law.Ī general order has the force of law it is an offense punishable by court martial or lesser military court to disobey one.

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