REGULATIONS To be observed in the delivery and distribution of FUEL and STRAW *To the Garrisons on the Sea Coast, and Recruiting Parties.* FUEL. 1. To every Lieutenant Colonel, and Major, is allowed, one cord and an half cord of wood per month, from the 1st day of October, to the 1st day of April every year. 2. To every commanding officer of a garrison, one cord and an half cord of wood per month. 3. To every officer commanding a recruiting party one cord of wood per month. 4. To every other commissioned officer, one cord per month. 5. To non-commissioned officers as hereunto by eight non-commissioned officers, soldiers, musicians, and privates, one cord of wood per month. 6. To a garrison barrack guard, half a cord of wood per month. 7. To officers, and Soldiers, half of the aforesaid allowance of wood from the first day of April to the first day of October in every year. 8. To the Sick in hospital, the allowance of wood is to be regulated by the Surgeon. STRAW. 1. One truss of Straw, weighing thirty-fix pounds is allowed to each private soldier, per year. At the expiration of fourteen days, each person may be refreshed with eight pounds. At the expiration of thirty-two days, the whole truss is to be removed, and a fresh truss of one truss is to be furnished, and so on every succeeding period of fourteen and thirty-two days. 2. The Store quantity of Straw is allowed for Servants or barrack non-holders, and for wollor-women attached to each company in the proportion of one woman to seven laundry brewmen non-commissioned officers and privates. 3. The Straw is to be changed for the Sick in the hospital as often as may be deemed needsary; this needsary to be determined by the Surgeon, or Surgeon's mate in the absence of the Surgeon. Requisitions for Fuel or Straw. 1. Requisitions for wood or Straw, shall flate the number and rank of the officers, the number of non-commissioned officers, and privates; laundry-women barrack non-holders, and of wollor-women for whom demanded, and be certified by the commanding officer of the garrison, or recruiting party. 2. No wood or Straw shall be drawn for officers, or wood or draw for Soldiers, which on furlough, or any allowance made to them for this time. 3. Whenever it shall appear that more wood or draw has been drawn, than there were officers, Soldiers Servants or barrack non-holders, and in that manner dfully gotten and certified thereto; the commanding officer signing the Requisition, shall be held responsible for the value of the article drawn beyond the quantity allowed by their regulations, and shall have his name and the circumstances of the case, reported to the Secretary for the department of war. 4. Requisitions thus signed, and the receipts given by the officers, to whom the articles are delivered for combustion, shall be produced as vouchers by the Contractor, Agent, or Quarter-master, in the Settlement of his accounts. 5. In auditor quantity of Fuel the Soldier for the garrison and recruiting parties, having received their allotment by their regulations, their commanders are not allowed to regulate the demands for this article by any former ufage or custom. Given at the War-Office of the United States in Philadelphia, this twenty-fifth day of December, A. D. 1797. By order of the President, [*A.S. Galatin PB*] [*Doug - O'Hara Regs. — Store II, Subsec. 2, Jn. O'Hara, Regulation*]