their effective Non-commissioned Officers, Trumpeters, Drummers, and Privates, for whom they require Bread, and to direct a Commissioned Officer to receive, and give a receipt for the same, to the Contractor or his Agents, adding the words, on Recruiting Service, when the Detachment, to which the Bread has beer furnished, is on that Service.

They are required to transmit to the Superintendents of Military Accounts (under cover to the Secretary at War) on or before the first of the month succeeding that in which the Supplies of Bread were furnished, a Monthly Distribution of the Corps.

Officers Commanding Detachments, whether stationary or on march, are to make Duplicates of the Receipts they give to Contractors, or their Agents, for supplies of Bread, and they are to forward such Duplicates immediately after the 24th of each month to the Head Quarters of their respective Regiments.

Pay-Masters of Regiments are responsible that Monthly Returns of Bread, are transmitted to the Superintendents of Military Accounts (under cover to the Secretary at War) on or before the 1st of the month succeeding that in which the supplies of that Article were furnished, and that these Returns are correctly made up and duly certified. The names of the

Contractors, and not of their Agents, are to be inserted in the column appropriated for that purpose in the form of Return. The number of Loaves of Bread supplied in each county, are to be stated separately. They are to transmit Duplicates of these Returns to the Commissary in Chief, with the word Duplicate written on the back.

On Corps being ordered to embark, the Commanding Officers and Pay-Masters are to transmit the Returns herein directed, previous to embarkation.

The Commanding Officers, Adjutants, and Paymasters of Corps, are required to certify, that the Noncommissioned Officers, Trumpeters, Drummers, and Private Soldiers, for whom a Charge is made in the Contractor's Monthly Accounts, were effective and present at the periods specified, and that the Quantities › of Bread as stated were actually delivered to them.

No Bread is to be received from the Contractors, but what shall be in Weight, and in Quality, conformable to the Contract:-If Bread, which may be objectionable in either respect, is at any time delivered to the Troops, it is to be rejected, and if not immediately replaced by the Contractor or his Agent, other Bread is to be purchased in lieu thereof by the Commanding Officer, or by the Commissary, for which the Contractor is required to pay.

In case the Contractors, or their Agents, shall not duly supply Bread according to the Contract, the Officer Commanding is authorized to purchase a sufficient Quantity of Bread for the Supply of Four Days, and ne is to make immediate complaint to the Commissary of the District, and report the same to the General Officer Commanding.

In all Situations where Bread is furnished by Contract, the Bread itself is to be delivered to the Troops, and on no Consideration is any Money, or other Compensation, or Recompence, to be received instead of it.

In places in North Britain where Bread is not the Food of the ordinary Class of the Inhabitants, the Soldiers are allowed Oatmeal instead of Bread, in the proportion of One Pound and one-eighth of a Pound of Oatmeal to One Pound of Bread.

Whenever Regiments, or Detachments, may be ordered to march from the Quarters they occupy, the Commanding Officers are immediately to give Notice thereof to the Contractors for Bread, or the Persons acting for them, in order to prevent their preparing the usual Quantity of Bread at the stipulated Period.

In order that every facility may be afforded for the btaining of proper Supplies of Bread for the Troops, the Contractors are enjoined by the Commissary in Chief to instruct their Agents to cause the words Army Baker to be printed over the Doors of their Houses.

Information relating to the Supplies of Bread may be obtained on application to the Commissariat Officers stationed in the several districts, to whom the Commanding Officers of Corps are to make immediate reference, in case of any neglect or irregularity on the part of the Contractors, in issuing the supplies of this article, making, at the same time, a similar report to the General Officers under whose command they are serving.

Regulations

Regulations respecting the Provisioning of Soldiers while on a March.

His Majesty's Warrant of the 22d June, 1810 (of which the following is a Copy), contains the Directions to be observed regarding the provisioning of Soldiers, while on a March :

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Whereas, by an Act passed in the late Session of "Parliament, it is provided and declared that the "Innkeepers and others, who, by the Act, commonly "called the Mutiny Act, are liable to furnish Non"commissioned Officers and Soldiers with Full Diet "and Small Beer, shall, from the 25th Instant inclu64 sive, only be liable to furnish each Non-commissioned "Officer, Trumpeter, Drummer, or Private Man, "with one hot Meal (if required) in each day, and that "the Quantities of the Articles of which such Meal "shall consist may be fixed and specified in, and by, "such Regulation, as we may think fit to establish in "that respect, not exceeding certain Quantities spe"cified in the said Act; Our Will and Pleasure "therefore is, that the Commanding Officers of our

Regiments, Corps, Detachments, or Parties, and "individual Non-commissioned Officers, or Soldiers 66 on Duty, and entitled thereto, may, and they are

hereby authorized to, demand, and require from "Innkeepers and others liable to furnish such Meal,

Que Pound and a Quarter of Meat, previously to "being dressed; One Pound of Bread; One Pound

of Potatoes, or an equivalent of other Vegetables; " and two Pints of Small Beer, with the necessary quantities of Pepper, Salt, and Vinegar: And "whereas, by the Act first abovementioned, it is

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declared, that the Sum of Eight-pence shall be paid "to the Innkeeper, or other Person who shall have "furnished every such Meal, Our further Will and "Pleasure is, that the said Sum be punctually paid to "such Innkeeper or other Person accordingly; each "Non-commissioned Officer and Soldier contributing "towards the same the Sum specified in the Act "commonly called the Mutiny Act, namely, each "Horse Soldier, the Sum of Seven-pence, out of his Pay and Beer Money; and each Foot Soldier, the "Sum of Five-pence, out of his Pay and Beer "Money."

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"It is Our further Will and Pleasure, that the "difference between the Sum of One Shilling and "Four-pence per Diem, now paid to the Innkeeper " or other Person furnishing full Diet and Small "Beer, and the Sum to be paid from, and after, the "25th Instant, namely, Eight-pence, shall be paid, or "accounted for, to each Non-commissianed Officer, "Trumpeter, Drummer, or Private Man, who, in"stead of being furnished with full Diet and Small "Beer, shall be provided with one Meal only as "aforesaid: which Sum We are graciously pleased to "allow to such Non-commissioned Officer or Soldier, "to enable him, under the directions of his Com"manding Officer, to provide the other Articles of "Subsistence, which he may stand in need of, in addition to the Meal provided for him by the Innkeeper."

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His Majesty is pleased to authorize the Officers in Command of Corps, or Detachments, (upon its being proved to their Satisfaction, that there is an urgent

necessity