4. Requisitions thus signed, and the receipts given by the officers, to whom the articles are delivered for consumption, shall be produced as vouchers by the contractor, agent, or quarter-master, in the settlement of his accounts.
As a smaller quantity of fuel may suffice for the garrisons and recruiting parties to the southward than ordered by these regulations, their commandants are enjoined to regulate the demands for this article by the nature of the climate.
Given at the war office of the United States in the city of Washington, this twenty eighth day of April, A. D. 1801.
HENRY DEARBORN,
Secretary of War.
Additional regulations relative to fuel.
At all posts, garrisons, or recruiting rendezvous, to the northward of the 39th degree of north latitude, should be allowed in addition to the present allowance of wood, from the first day of October, to the first day of April in each year;
To each field officer, half a cord per month.
To every commanding officer, of a garrison, consisting of one company, half a cord per month.
To every other commissioned officer, one third of a cord per month.
To every room occupied by eight men, half a cord per month.