To a garrison or quarter guard, half a cord per month.
May 1, 1806.
Regulations respecting certain supplies and objects of special and extra expense.
The several contractors, besides rations including ardent spirits and vinegar, shall only provide and furnish quarters, transportation, forage, fuel, straw, and stationery, to recruiting parties where there is no appropriate officer of the quarter-master general’s department to furnish the same. The quarters intended, are those of a temporary kind. The power to provide them shall not extend to the building or repairing of barracks. In what they furnish, they shall govern themselves exclusively by the regulations which have been established by law or by the war department, and in cases to which no regulations apply, by the orders of the particular commanding officer.
No repairs shall be made to any barracks or buildings which shall incur a disbursement of money exceeding fifty dollars, but by an order of the secretary of war.
As often as any matter which may require any special or extra expense can wait without material injury to the service, for a communication to, and the direction of the secretary of war, or the commander of the army; it is not to be undertaken till after such communication and direction shall have been had.
The quarter-master general, his deputies and assistants, are primarily charged with making the disbursements in the cases abovementioned. When there is no such officer, the agent of the war department in the vicinity shall do it. All orders for such disbursements must be definite and in writing, to be transmitted with the accounts of them to the accountant of the war department; and all disbursements made in pursuance of these regulations must be substantiated by such vouchers as shall be prescribed by the said accountant.
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.
Rules adopted by the president of the United States relative to promotions in the army.