[undecipherable] ...Quarter Master Ge[neral]... [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ...in a separate command... [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ...to the [Adjutant] General and of the like description. To a Brigadier General, Pay Master General, Deputy [Quarter] Master General, Deputy [Quarter]master General and [undecipherable] the other description, and one with Arms. To each Field Officer, and every other Officer who ordinarily does duty on horseback one of the above mentioned description — To every Officer who usually serves on foot: one with Arms — The Servants required to have Arms, in all general exercises, marches and movements are to be found in the Ranks. When annexed to officers detached from Corps they must join the Guards connected with such Officers or their Baggage, In the cases in which they should be otherwise without Arms, if they are attached to Officers of Dragoons they will retain the[ir] [undecipherable] — — Signed — W. North Adjutant General [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The several contractors besides [undecipherable] ardent spirits & Vinegar, shall only provide and furnish Quarters, Transportation [undecipherable] Fuel, Straw and Stationary: to Recru[undecipherable] where there is no appro= riate Officer of the Quarter Master Generals Department to furnish the same; and where there shall be no other provision for the purpose, Medical Assistance — The Quarters intended are those of a temporary kind, the [undecipherable] to provide them shall not extend to the building or repairing of Barracks. In what they furnish, they shall govern themselves exclusively 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 Barracks or other Buildings, shall be erected without the express order in writing of the Commander in Chief, the Commander within a separate Military district, or department, o[r the] Secretary of War; previous to which correct plans and [undecipherable] by Engineers or scientific persons are required to be presented from 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 several distinct Forts or Posts, and subdivision of a great [undecipherable] [undecipherable] District [undecipherable] the Commander of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the particular Commandant of either [undecipherable] shall not cause any such repairs to be made though occasioning no greater expence than fifty Dollars, without a previous report to such immediate superior and his approbation — No extra expence fo[r] any special object [undecipherable] be incurred by such particular Commandant without a previous resort to the direct superior, who when such expence may exceed fifty Dollars, shall not authorize it without first obtaining the sanction of his superior — The commandant of a particular Fort or Post, having no intermediate Superior, shall incur no expence for repairs, nor any extra exponce 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 — As often as any matter which may require special or extra expence, can wait, without material injury to the service, for a communication to, and the direction of a Commander of [undecipherable: probable reading "an Army"] or District, it is not to be undertaken till after such communication, and direction shall have been had. — These Regulations admit of exceptions, 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 [undecipherable] of these Regulations [undecipherable] [undecipherable] responsibility of the Officer [undecipherable] to be made, who must immediately [undecipherable] the occasion and the expence [undecipherable] — The Commander of an Army [undecipherable] a great District may [undecipherable] in writing to be forthwith communicated [undecipherable] Secretary of War, make exceptions in cases where the remoteness of a Fort or Post, shall render application of these Regulations manifestly inconvenient, intrusting a larger direction to the Commandant of each Post or Fort — The Quarter Master General, his Deputies and Assistants, 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 must be definite and in writing to be transmitted with the accounts of them to the Accountant of the War Department, and all disbursements made [undecipherable] pursuance of these regulations must be substantiated by such Vouchers as shall be presented by the Accountant of War — Regulations respecting Soldiers allowed to be taken from the line of the Army to attend on Officers — To the Commander in Chief or General [undecipherable]