Regulations Respecting Extra Allowance to Officers.
Document 1798Explains the regulations applying to extra allowances to officers. For example, officers shall receive in addition to their legal pay $1.25 extra pay for man and horse per day to sleep at a place which is not a military post. Fifty cents travelling expenses are allowed for an officer detached from one military post to another which he may reach the same night, not to exceed forty miles distance. Etc.
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Copy of Signed Document
Description
Explains the regulations applying to extra allowances to officers. For example, officers shall receive in addition to their legal pay $1.25 extra pay for man and horse per day to sleep at a place which is not a military post. Fifty cents travelling expenses are allowed for an officer detached from one military post to another which he may reach the same night, not to exceed forty miles distance. Etc.
Date
12/19/1798
Author
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798121900201
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
officers
Secretary of War
commanding officer
servant
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
allowances
expenses
military posts
regulations
accounts
settlement
certificate
provisions
horse
travel