[Regulations respecting extra allowances to Officers —] Regulations respecting extra allowances to Officers. In all cases where Officers are detached on services, which oblige them to incur expenses, on the [underline: road] and [underline: at places where there are no military posts], except where the law has specifically provided for travelling) expenses the following regulations are to govern in the settlement of their accounts— 1^st. Every Officer detached as aforesaid, besides his legal pay and emoluments shall receive a dollar and twenty five cents per day for man and horse for each day that the officer must sleep at a place not a military post, and when the officer is of a rank to be intitled to a servant, then the addition of seventy five cents per day for the servant and his horse: — That the foregoing rule shall apply to all places but the seat of government and the principal town in each state, at which places the allowance to be a dollar and a half for the officer & his horses. 2^nd. That extraordinary cases only for which greater allowances may be indispensible be referred to the special discretion of the Secretary of War, to be assisted by a certificate from the commanding officer, by whom the officer claiming was detached on the special service, stating the reasons and circumstances. 3^d. That fifty cents, without reference to ranks, be allowed to every officer detached from one military post to another, which he may reach the same night, not less than forty miles distant: — In this case, it is contemplated the servant can without inconvenience take his own provisions with him. 4^th. That the days journey be regulated by the number of miles in the following proportions viz: Forty miles to a day where the whole distance does not exceed two hundred miles; thirty to a day for all above two hundred and not exceeding three hundred and fifty; twenty five to a day for all above three hundred and [undecipherable] and not exceeding six hundreds; and twenty to a day for all above six hundreds. 5^th. That these rates do not retrospect but regard future allowances only. That all past and intervening cases, before a reasonable notice of the same, be settled on the former principle of reasonable expenses according to circumstances, it being supposed that the application of a new rule may produce hardship and injustice where the service may have been performed in the expectation that practice on former occasions would prevail. Given at the Office of the War Department of the United States in the City of Philadelphia by order of the President this nineteenth day of December 1798 and in the twenty third year of Independance (Signed) James Mc Henry Sec'ry of War.