GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 74. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, July 7, 1862. 
1.. The following Resolution of Congress is published for the 
information of all concerned: 
A RESOLUTION to encourage Enlistments in the Regular Army 
and Volunteer forces. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the ninth 
section of the act approved August third, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
one, entitled “An act for the better organization of the military 
establishment,” as abolishes the premium paid for bringing accepted 
recruits to the rendezvous, he and the same is hereby repealed, and 
hereafter a premium of two dollars shall he paid to any citizen, non- 
commissioned officer, or soldier, for such accepted recruit for the 
regular army [as] he may bring to the rendezvous. And every sol- 
dier who hereafter enlists, either in the regular army or the volunteers, 
for three years, or during the war, may receive his first month’s pay 
in advance, upon the mustering of his company into the service of 
the United States, or after he shall have been mustered into and joined 
a regiment already in the service. 
Approved June 21, 1862. 
11.. For the two dollar premium, regular service, the form of receipt 
roll annexed will be used as a consolidated voucher for the payments. 
The payments will be made from recruiting funds, and so soon as the 
recruit is accepted by the recruiting officer. 
111.. For volunteer recruits, for old regiments, there will he paid a 
premium of three dollars, and for those entering new regiments a 
premium of two dollars. The premium may be paid either to the 
person bringing the recruit, or to the recruit in person, in case he 
presents himself. 
These payments will he made so soon as the recruit has been in- 
spected by the surgeon and mustered into the service. 
The amounts will he entered on the Muster-in Roll, opposite the 
names of the recruits so paid, and charged to the fund for “ collecting, 
drilling, and organizing volunteers."1 2 
For a voucher, a modified form of that used in the regular service 
may be used. 
IV. . The month’s pay in advance for regular and volunteer recruits 
will be paid under such regulations as the Paymaster General may 
establish. 
V. During the continuance of the existing war, twenty-jive dollars 
of the one hundred bounty previously authorized by act of Congress will 
be paid to every recruit of the regular and volunteer forces. 
These payments will be made as follows, viz: 
1. To volunteer recruits for the old regiments, when the said recruits 
are inspected and mustered into the service, and to those of the new 
regiments when their companies are organized, muster-in rolls made 
out, and the mustering officer’s certificate given thereto. The amounts 
will be entered on the muster-in rolls, opposite the name of the recruits, 
respectively, and charged under the head of “ Expenses of Volunteer 
Recruiting Service.” To this end, an account current separate from 
that for the fund for “collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers,” 
will be used, but the “volunteer recruiting fund” will be disbursed by 
the regularly appointed mustering and disbursing officers. 
2. To recruits for the regular service when the recruit has been 
passed by the “ Board of Inspectors,” at the regimental or general 
service depot, as the case may be. The amounts under this head will 
be paid from the recruiting funds, and entered on the recruiting account 
current opposite the names of the recruits, respectively ; and also on 
the first descriptive list of the soldier; whenever this list is given before 
bounty has been paid, an entry—“ $25 bounty due for enlistment”—will 
be made thereon. 
In case of reenlisted soldiers, the entry, as to payment or non- 
payment, Avill be made on the first muster roll, and the superintendent 
of the recruiting service will be notified of the fact. 
3. Vouchers for payment will be in the form of consolidated receipt 
rolls. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General. 3 
We, the undersigned, do hereby acknowledge to have received from Lieut. , Regiment of , 
Recruiting Officer, [or from Mustering and Disbursing Officer, ] the sums opposite our names, 
respectively, being injull for amounts due us for procuring and bringing to the rendezvous accepted recruits. 
Our names are placed opposite the names of recruits so furnished, and we have signed duplicates hereof. 
Date. 
No. 
Name of Recruit. 
Amount. 
Name of Person pro- 
curing Recruits.* 
Witness. 
Remarks. 
I certify that the above is correct; that the recruits accepted are “effective and able bodied;” and 
that, in accepting them, I have been strictly governed by paragraphs 925 and 926 Recruiting Regulations. 
, Lieut. Infantry, 
Recruiting Officer. 
Notes.—1- - Act of February 13, 1862, published in Gr. O. No. 15, although prohibiting discharge of minors from the service, does not 
authorize their enlistment or muster into service, except with written consent of parent, guardian, or master. 
S.-It should be borne in mind that the law provides for the enlistment of “effective able-bodied” men ; and if any officer 
shall enlist any person contrary to the true intent and meaning of the law, it is further provided that, for every 
offence, “ he shall forfeit and pay the amount of the bounty and clothing which the person so recruited may have 
received from the public, to be deducted out of the pay and emoluments of such officer.” 
*In case of volunteer recruits the name of the recruit will appear in this column in case the money was paid to him.