Regulations Respecting Extra Allowance to Officers.

Item

Type

Copy of Signed Document

Title

Regulations Respecting Extra Allowance to Officers.

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.

year created

1798

month created

12

day created

19

author

sent from location

Philadelphia

in image

notable person/group

James McHenry
officers
Secretary of War
commanding officer
servant

notable location

Philadelphia

notable item/thing

allowances
expenses
military posts
regulations
accounts
settlement
certificate
provisions
horse
travel

document number

1798121900201

page start

1

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) YTY14 (2 pages) Collection: Orderly Book for the Garrison at Fort Johnston, N.C., 1795-1811. (RG98) P: 13-19
[view document] (2 pages) YTY14a (2 pages) Collection: Orderly Book for the Garrison at Fort Johnston, N.C., 1795-1811. (RG98) P: 13-19

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author James McHenry Philadelphia [n/a]