Military Laws And Rules And Regulations For The Armies Of The United States.

Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office Washington, May 1st , 1813

MISCELLANEOUS RULES
Each Major General will appoint his Aids-de-camp.  Each Brigadier General will appoint his Brigade Major and Aid-de-camp.  No Aid-de-camp shall be taken from a rank higher than that of a subaltern.
No officer shall be permitted to hold two staff appointments at the same time.
No surgeon of the army shall be engaged in private practice.
No officer, commissioned or non-commissioned, shall be the agent of a contractor.
Quartermasters of regiments, or of corps, will cause the company provision returns to be consolidated and carried to the commanding officers of regiments, and of detachments, or brigades, for their signatures.  Abstracts of these, furnished and presented by the contractors, will be signed by officers commanding brigades, (or separate posts) and will thus become vouchers for the contractors.
No furlough shall be given during a campaign; nor any but by the General commanding the district or army, and for the cause of disability, which disability shall be certified by a regimental or hospital surgeon.
Furloughs shall, beside expressing the term of time granted to absentees, express, also, an order to join the regiment, post, or garrison, to which they may belong.
No order shall be given to officers seeking a furlough for their own convenience, which shall have the effect of entitling them to an allowance for transportation of baggage.
All discharges given to soldiers by generals commanding separate detachments, shall specify the causes of discharge.
All officers, whatever may be their rank, passing through a garrison town, or established military post, shall report their arrival at such town, or post, to the commanding officer, by written notice, if the officer arriving be elder in rank, and personally, if he be younger in rank than the officer commanding.
All officers arriving at the seat of Government, will, in like manner, report to the Adjutant and Inspector General.
REGULATION OF NOVEMBER 1, 1808.
Officers of the cavalry will be allowed money in lieu of forage, under the rule which governs in the allowance to officers of other corps, to wit, twelve dollars to a Colonel, eleven dollars to a Lieutenant Colonel, &c.
Captains and subalterns of that corps are not to be allowed forage, or money in lieu thereof, until ordered to be mounted.

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