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 Go

vernment.

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 sixty 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.

Officers' Portion.

Two pounds of white bread.

A quarter of a pound of fine grits, or substitutes.

Two pounds of meat.

A portion of liquor, of good quality. Two tallow candles, eight to the pound. To prevent inconveniences, 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,

One-fifteenth of a sterc 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 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 the soldier, according to the Tarif 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:

1. The servant shall likewise receive the portion of the soldier, but only when borne as effective on the mustering-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 ranks.

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 five-eighths of a bushel.
Hay ten pounds.

Straw three pounds.

Heavy Ration.

Oats one bushel (Paris measure).
Hay ten pounds.

Straw three pounds.

1. The heavy ration shall be given for the saddle horses of officers, for horses of regaular cavlry, light and heavy, for artillery horses that draw the guns and caissons. 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 Tarif, and shall have the advantage of the dung.

4. Stabling shall be granted to regiments and companies for the effective number of horses, also light and accommodation for the guard, and place for the baggage and forage.

5. Forage for 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 Tarif. It shall be delivered according to such returns, without any deduction. Officers shall claim stableroom 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 eight feet long and four feet broad.

GENERAL REMARK.

Beyond the present Tarif, the troops shall not be entitled to claim any thing, 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

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