Regulations Respecting certain Supplies and Respecting objects of Special and Extra Expence. THE Several Comptrollers, besides rations including ardent Spirits and Vinegar, shall only provide and furnish quarters, transportation, forrage, Fuel, News and Stationery, to recruiting parties, where there is no appropriate officer of the Quarter-Master General's department to furnish the same, and where there shall be no other provisions for the purpose, medical officers. The quarters intended are of a temporary kind—The power to provide them shall not extend to the building or repairing of barracks. In what they furnish, they shall govern themselves as directed by the regulations which have been established by law or by the War Department, and in cases to which no regulations apply, by the orders of the particular commanding officer. No barrack or other building shall be erected without the approbation in writing of the Commander in Chief, the Commander within a Superior military district, or department, or of the Secretary of War—Previous to which, correct plans and estimates by engineers or Scientific persons are required to be obtained by the person from whom the order is to emanate. No repairs shall be made to any barracks or buildings which shall incur a disbursement of money exceeding fifty dollars, but by the like order. Where there are distinct forts or posts in a sub-division of a great military district, each under the command of an intermediate Superior, the particular commander of neither of those posts shall not cause any such repairs to be made, though occasioning no greater expense than fifty dollars, without a previous report to such immediate Superior and his approbation. No extra expense for any special object or purpose shall be incurred by that particular commandant without a previous refers to the said Superior, who, when such expense may exceed fifty dollars shall not authorize it without first obtaining the sanction of his Superior. The commander of a particular fort or post, having no intermediate Superior, shall incur no expense for repairs nor any extra expense for any special object or purpose, which may require a disbursement exceeding fifty dollars, without the permission of the commander of the army or district, or of the Secretary of War. An extra on any matter which may require such special or extra expense can wait, without material injury to the Service, for a communication to, and the direction of the commander of an army or district, it is not to be undertaken till after such communication and direction shall have been had. — Exceptions to be of emergency. In cases of extraordinary emergency and of peculiar urgency, when the Service would be likely to Suffer material injury from the delay which might attend the observance of them. Every Such exception will be only allowable on the part of the officer by whom it may be made, who shall immediately report to his Superior the occasion and the expense he has incurred. The commander of an army or within a great district, may by indication in writing to be forthwith communicated to the Secretary of War, make exceptions in cases where the remoteness of a fort or post shall render the operation of these regulations manifestly inconvenient, introducing a larger direction to the commandant of Such fort or posts. The Quarter-Master General, his deputies and officers are primarily charged with the making of the disbursements in the cases above mentioned. When there is no Such officer, the agent of the War Department in the vicinity shall do it. All orders for Such disbursements shall be definite and in writing, to be transacted with the accounts of such agents or officers to the War Department; and all disbursements made in performance of their regulations must be exhibited by the Vouchers as Shall be prescribed by the Accountant of the Department of War. Given at the War Office of the United States, at Philadelphia, this 8^th day of March, A. D. 1800. JAMES McHENRY, SECRETARY OF WAR. [Endorsement on verso: Regulations respecting certain Supplies and Objects of Special and Extra expence] [Notation on verso: D. Ready]