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POSTSCRIPT. 
 Recruiting and Reorganization of Twelve Months' Companies. 
 
 I. By Act of Congress, approved January ~~<, 1862, the right t<i receive Recruits for three years 
 or the war has been extended to .-ill Companies now in service for L2 months, and the Commanding 
 Officer of each L2 mouths' Battalion or Regiment is authorized to detail one Commissioned Officer 
 and not more than two privates from each Company thereof to recruit for their respective Compa- 
 nies, in conformity with the Recruiting Regulations. (General Orders, No. •'>.) 
 
 These Recruits are entitled to pay, transportation and subsistence from the time ami place of 
 enlistment, and to the bounty of 50 dollars, payable at the time of joining their Companies. 
 
 The original Volunteers iu these Companies re-enlisting for two years or the war. as already 
 provided, may re-enlist in the Companies to be thus recruited, and at the expiration of the original 
 12 months' term, the several Companies thus recruited and re-enlisted shall elect their Company 
 Officers, and may reorganize themselves into new Battalions or Regiments; or it' in all the Compa- 
 nies in any Battalion or Regiment the number of recruits and re-enlisted men shall be sufficient to 
 form new Companies, such Battalion or Regiment maybe reorganized, and its original designation 
 remain unaltered, the Field Officers being elected in all such cases, as provided by the Regulations. 
 
 But it' the number of recruits and re-enlisted men in any Company shall be less than the 
 minimum required for a Company, they may combine with others in like situation to form new 
 Companies, or, in default thereof may be assigned or distributed to other Companies from the game 
 Siate. 
 
 The Regulations in regard to recruiting for 12 months' Companies, as above provided, as well as 
 for re-enlisted Companies and all Companies now in service for the war, as provided in the above 
 Circular, and the Regulations in regard tore-enlistment, have been published in General Orders for 
 the information of the Army, and may be obtained from the Adjutant General. 
 
 J. P. BENJAMIN, 
 
 Secretary of liar. 
 
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