[Extract.] Rules and regulations relative to maritime and frontier Posts, or fortified places. "No person (except an Officer of a Garrison) shall be allowed to take a plan of any fort or fortified place, or to delineate on paper, or otherwise, the topography of the grounds, within the extent of its command, a range from which it may be annoyed, or incommoded; and all plans or draughts of a Post or fortified place, so made by any Officer shall be deposited with the Commandant of the Post, for the use of its Officers, in a Chest to be set apart for the purpose. "No Commandant, or other Officer, shall give any person, or permit any person to [undecipherable] any plan or draught of any fort or fortified place within the United States, unless he shall be so instructed by the Secretary for the department of War; nor shall it be allowable to any Officer retiring from the Army to carry with him, any plan or draught of, or relative to 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 Post or Garrison from which he retires, or if the Commander of a district, or Commander of the Army with his Successor, or the Secretary for the department of War. "All plans, draughts, memoirs, or papers relative to any post or fortified place within the United States, found among the papers of a deceased Officer, shall be immediately sealed up, and transmitted to the Secretary for the department of War." Given at the War Office, by Command of the President of the United States, this 28^th day of March, A.D. 1797, and in the 21st year of the Independence of the said States. (signed) James McHenry. True Extract from the Records of the War Office. 2^d August 1797. [signature] J. Stagg Jun^r Ch^f Elk.