Mount Adams October 15^th 1799 The following Orders of Major General Hamilton, have been transmitted to the Commanding Officer on the Mississippi for publication and are to be duly Respected (Viz) "General Orders, New York June 1^st 1799. Major General Hamilton announces to the officers of the Troops under his Command the following regulations respecting Extra allowances to officers Established by an act of the War department dated the 9^th of December last. In all cases where officers are attached on Services that oblige them to encur expenses on the road and at places where there are not Military posts, except where the Law has Specifically provided for traveling Expenses, the following regulations are to govern in their Accounts —— 1^st Every officer attached as aforesaid, besides his legal pay and Emoluments Shall receive a Dollar and twenty five Cents for 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 entitled to a Servant — then the addition of Seventy five Cents p^r day for the Servant and his Horse. That the foregoing rules Shall apply to all p[undecipherable] but the Seat of government, and the p[undecipherable] in each State, at which places the allo[undecipherable] be a Dollar and a half for the officer and Horse —— 2^d That extraordinary Cases only [undecipherable] [Allowances may be] which greater indispensable be referd to the Special discretion of the Secretary of W[undecipherable] be assisted by a Certificate from the Comma[undecipherable] by whom the Officer claiming was detached [undecipherable] the Special Service Stating the reasons a[undecipherable] Circumstances — 3^d That fifty Cents with[undecipherable] reference to rank is allowed to every Officer [undecipherable] from one Military post to another which may reach the same night not [undecipherable] Miles distant in this place it is contemp[undecipherable] the Servant came without inconveniance [undecipherable] own Provision with him —— 4^th Tha[undecipherable] days Journey may be regulated by the N[undecipherable] of Miles in the following proportion (Viz) [undecipherable] Miles a day when the whole distance do[undecipherable] Exceed two Hundred Miles thirty to a day [undecipherable] all above Two Hundred and not Exceeding [undecipherable] Hundred and fifty; twenty five to a day [undecipherable] above Three Hundred and fifty and not Ex[undecipherable] Six Hundred — twenty to a day for all ab[undecipherable] Six Hundred —— 5^th That these rates [undecipherable] retrospec[undecipherable] but regulate future allowa[undecipherable] only, those all[undecipherable] and accruing 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 of the practice on former Occasion may prevail — respecting the greater allowances in extraordinary Cases which by the 2^d article is referd to the Special discretion of the Secretary of War it is understood that no Application to that Effect can be made with propriety until a Certificate is produced from the Commanding by whom the Officer Claiming Such Extra allowance was detached Stating particularly the reasons and Circumstances inducing Extraordinary Expenses and that in all Cases that the Orders of the Commanding Officer must be produced in writing previous to any allowance being made Signd Abraham B. Ellery A^st Ag^t Gen^l.