Rules and Regulations relative to Conducting in Frontier forts or Fortified Places 1. The President hereby forbids the Commanding Officer [or] [subalterns] [of] any fort, person, a Fortified place, in the [same] or any [subordinate] frontier, within the Indian boundary, to [enter,] receive and produce a recommendation whatever, any [stranger to] enter into the [same], who shall not have a written [license] [assigned] by the Secretary for the department of War. 2. No person except an Officer of a [Garrison] shall be [allow'd] take a plan of any fort, Fortified place, or to delineate [any of its objects,] or [ultimately] the [Topography] of the [Grounds], within the point of [its] command, a range from which it may be [examined or commanded,] and all plans or draughts of a fort or Fortified place, [so] made by any officer shall be [submitted] with the Commandant of the [fort] for [his own,] the Officer or Chief to be at least for the [purpose]. 3. No Commandant or other officer shall on any [fancy] [duty] [purpose] to take any plan or draught of any fort or Fortified place within the United States, except he shall be so [authorized] by the Secretary for the department of War; nor shall it be allowable to any [Person] belonging to [or] from the Army to carry with him any plan or draught of a Fortified place, [of] any fort or Fortified place within the United States, but every such plan or draught shall be deposited with the officer in command at the fort or [Garrison] from which [he departs,] and the Commandant of a district or commanders of [the] Army will [transmit] [it] to the Secretary for the department of War. 4. All [foreign] strength, [persons] or traders, relative to any fort or Fortified place within the United States, from among the [public,] a certain officer shall be immediately sealed up and transmitted to the department of War. 5. The number of troops in [Garrisons] or the actual force of the army or draught of a place shall not be communicated, except to their [officers] by the [ways] or regulations of the army to receive such communications as [being] [thereof]. [6.] [Every Commandant] of a fort or Fortified place shall cause, in a book to be kept for that purpose, the names of all [persons actually on] in his frontier [point] of the [post,] [to] within the Indian boundary, South of the [Ohio River,] shall acquire of each person coming within his command, the authority by which he has entered into the said [boundary,] or he shall be a [citizen] of a nation authorized by treaty to have and [rove] through the same without a [passport,] and shall have the authority [permitting] him to enter the said Indian [boundary,] and his [license of it,] [and] transmit a copy of the said [license] once every month, when [practicable,] to the Secretary for the department of [War]; and no person shall be allowed to enter into a fort or Fortified place, merely on account of such [person] being a citizen of the United States or a subject or citizen of a Nation at peace with the United States. 7. [Subjects] of the United States or other [persons] who shall be found in the Indian Country South of the Ohio, without a [passport] or license to trade, [not] entitled by treaty to carry on trade within the Indian [boundaries,] are to be dealt with agreeably to the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to preserve peace on the frontiers." 8. It is enjoined on the Commanders of the Army, the Commandant of a [district,] and all Commandants of forts and Fortified places to pay strict attention to the conduct of all [foreigners] and strangers whatever [description] who shall come within the spheres of their Command, and to note whatever in their conduct or proceedings is of a suspicious nature, or calculated to create suspicions of unfriendly intentions towards the United States, and to report forthwith the same to the Secretary [of] the department of War, and where the danger or [undecipherable] shall be apparent and pressing to take such steps as the [undecipherable] circumstances may render proper and necessary. 9. It is not to be construed by these instructions that a Commandant of a fort is excluded from maintaining such [intercourse] as is allowable by the usage of armies between Officers of [respective] Garrisons of different nations, who are [on] [good] [terms] with each other, and with Citizens of the United States, resident in the [vicinity,] with the Indians friendly to the United States. 10. It is expressly forbidden to any officer to whom these regulations shall be delivered to [divulge] them or their [objects] further than shall be necessary for their own and faithful execution. Given at the War Office by Command of the President of the United States, this twenty eighth day of March A.D. 1797 and in the twenty first year of the Independence of the Said States James M^cHenry Secy of War. Head Quarters Fort Washington 23 May 1797 General Orders To promote the [simplicity] of inspection — to establish principles, without which there can be no [firm] [argument] now — to define the rights of individuals — to [exclude] caprice — to promote [O]economy, precision — to disseminate a uniformity of duty and of Service throughout the Army — and to [enforce] the necessary [Order] of Subordination and discipline, the following regulations have been [adopted] and must be clearly respected by all [ranks] — 1. [undecipherable] in Command is attached to seniority of [rank].