[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 road and 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 horse. 2^d. 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 [strikethrough: service] [undecipherable: stating] the reasons and circumstances. 3^d. That fifty cents, without reference to rank, be allowed to every officer detached from one military post to another, which he may reach the same night, and less than forty miles distant. — In this case, it is contemplated the servant can without inconvenience take his own provisions with him. 4^th