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or to complete the ten days' supply in reserve, with which the troops should be provided in their flying hospitals.

This store shall be furnished in addition to the daily supply; moreover in order to ensure a regular supply, it is to be understood that, within the space of two months, the magazines are to be so provisioned, that there be always a supply of provisions and forage (meat excepted) in store for a fortnight in advance, under the inspection of the French Storekeepers.

The Commissaries of the several Corps d'Armée shall be authorised to inspect this store in reserve when they may think proper.

4. The meat shall be delivered slaughtered, without including the head, feet, lights, liver, and other internal parts. If, with the consent of the troops, live cattle be delivered, the weight shall be fixed by an exact computation, including the head, the fat, and whatever is eatable.

The hides shall, in this case, belong to the troops.

5. On a march, and on other occasions where the soldier shall be fed par étape, the same tariff shall be in force; the soldier shall then receive his portion, or an adequate equivalent, prepared and divided into two meals, and in the morning a portion of bread and spirits.

6. Receipts shall be granted by regiments, companies, and detachments, for the number of rations and portions received; which receipt shall be revised and confirmed in each corps, by a Mixed Commission, whose official expenses shall be regulated and paid by the French Government.

7. As several of the troops are accustomed to tobacco for smoking, and as the soldier will not be able to purchase this article at the very high price that exists in France, it is stipulated, that regiments, companies, or detachments, shall be entitled to demand half a kilogramme of tobacco, per month, for each man present, on paying 60 centimes for each half kilogramme of the most inferior quality sold in the shops, but fresh. In order to prevent any contraband practices arising therefrom, upon the issues to be distributed amongst the regiments, there shall be specified the quantities of tobacco delivered.

Officer's Portion.

Two pounds of white bread.

Quarter of a pound of fine grits, or substitutes.
Two pounds of meat.

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A portion of liquor of good quality.

Two tallow candles, eight to the pound.

To prevent inconvenience, it were to be wished, that this part of the portion should be estimated at a certain sum per diem, for all the Corps d'Armée, and should always be given in money.

Moreover, of a stère of hard firewood, or, according to circumstances, soft wood, coal, or turf, in the proportion established in the French Service.

This part of the portion shall be always given in kind, except during a march. The summer ration shall be one-half that of the winter, and there shall be reckoned six months to the winter.

In those provinces where coal is generally burnt, the commutation between wood and coal shall be made, as well for the Officer as for the soldier, according to the tariff of commutation of the same articles in use in the French Army.

Likewise the quarters, with beds and bedding.

The portions and the quarters shall be given to the Officers according to the following table:-

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1. The servant shall likewise receive the portion of the soldier, but only when borne as effective on the muster-roll, and not beyond the number allowed in each Army.

2. The Civil and Medical Departments shall be assimilated with the Military, in every thing, according to their respective rauks.

3. In case of necessity, more particularly on a march, a smaller number of apartments shall suffice. In barracks the quarters shall be regulated according to circumstances, and conjointly with the Commandants.

Forage.-Light Ration.

Oats, of a bushel.

Hay, 10 pounds.

Straw, 3 pounds.

Heavy Ration.

Oats, 1 bushel (Paris measure).

Hay, 10 pounds.

Straw, 3 pounds.

1. The heavy ration shall be given for the saddle horses of Officers, for horses of regular cavalry, light and heavy, for artillery horses that draw the guns and caissons.

All other horses, including cossack horses, shall receive only the light ration, except by the rules of the service of each Army there should be other draft horses entitled to the heavy ration.

On a march which may continue for more than four days, all the horses on the march shall receive the heavy ration.

2. The forage may be varied in case of necessity, by reckoning six rations of barley, and, in extreme scarcity, as many of rye, for eight rations of oats; and half a light ration of oats for five pounds of hay. The latter substitute may be demanded as a matter of right, by those troops whose ration of hay is generally under ten pounds, and that of oats more liberal.

3. Straw shall be furnished from the magazines for the stables of the barracks, and the dung shall belong to the troops who are to remove it themselves.

When quartered on the inhabitant, he shall supply straw according to the tariff, and shall have the advantage of the dung.

4. Stabling shall be granted to regiments and companies for

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the effective number of horses, also light and accommodation for the guard, and place for the baggage and forage.

5. Forage for the horses of the Officers of different ranks shall be given to each Army, according to the regulations in force with them respectively, previous to the date of the present tariff. It shall be delivered according to such Returns, without any deduction.

Officers shall claim stable-room for the actual number of their horses, and room for their baggage and forage, but not candlelight. For each horse there shall be allotted a space of 8 feet long and 4 feet broad.

General Remarks.

Beyond the present tariff, the troops shall not be entitled to claim anything, and shall be obliged to purchase at their own expense the articles not comprehended in it, such as soap, butter, chalk, pipe-clay, &c.

With respect to guard-houses and sentry-boxes, the towns will provide for them at their own expense.

II. Hospitals.

The administration of the Hospitals shall in general be in the hands of the French authorities, according to the established order; but in the subsistence of the sick, respect shall be had to the Regulation published by each Army on its entrance into France. Everything necessary, medicines included, shall be provided at the expense of the French Government. On the other hand, nothing shall be granted for Regimental Hospitals, beyond the usual portions and quarters, which shall be claimed by regiments for their sick, as well as for their effective. Each Corps d'Armée shall send to the Hospital destined for its sick, the necessary medical or other assistance, to secure proper treatment. All soldiers sent to the Hospitals shall be received, and the Hospitals shall be established at convenient distances.

III. Transport.

When the troops are on a march, carriages shall be furnished by the French Government, on the demand of the Commanderin-Chief. The same rule shall be observed for the transport of the sick. The necessary relays for the communication between different parts of a Corps d'Armée shall also be granted; but the

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greatest moderation shall be observed on this subject. With respect to the conveyance of military effects to the Army from beyond the French frontier, such conveyances shall be made by relays of the country, only till the 1st of February, 1816, and merely for moderate quantities.

IV. Posts, Dispatches, Couriers, &c.

All Dispatches connected with the interior service of the different corps, and correspondence with the French authorities, bearing an Official Seal, shall be received and forwarded, without payment, at the usual posts. Estafettes and private letters of the Military shall be paid for at the usual prices. Couriers and travellers, military or otherwise, shall pay punctually for posthorses.

V. Douanes.

Articles for the clothing of the troops shall enter free from duty, on Certificates well authenticated. Military persons joining the Armies, or leaving France, shall be exempt from payment of all duties, on whatever is for their own use, or that of the troops. Agreed upon, and signed at Paris, the 20th of November, in the year of Our Lord, 1815.

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