Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office 
Richmond, Nov. 28, 1803. 
GENERAL ORDERS, } 
No. 155. ] 
I. In order that detachments, unaccompanied by quartermasters, may* 
be supplied with the means of obtaining forage, quartermasters of the re- 
giments or commands to which they belong are hereby authorized to fur- 
nish to the officer in command, or such other officer as may be designated, 
sufficient funds for that purpose,‘upon duplicate receipts being given there- 
for. Upon the return of the detachment, the officer receiving such funds 
shall return to the quartermaster an account of the expenditures for forage, 
which will exhibit the amount expended, the number of animals, and the 
time during which they shall have been subsisted. Upon the rendition 
of such accounts, and the repayment of any unexpended balance in his 
hands, the officer will be entitled to the return of his original receipts, and 
the quartermaster will account for the forage so obtained, as if the same 
had been purchased and issued by him. 
IT. When small detachments are sent off, unaccompanied by a commis- 
sioned officer, quartermasters are authorized to commute their forage ra- 
tions in advance, for the time designated in the order for such detached 
service, filing a certified copy of such order in support of the voucher; 
or upon the return of detachments to their commands, when no funds 
shall have been supplied under the foregoing provisions, expenditures in- 
curred for forage by the officer in command of such detachments, within 
the regulation allowance, may be reimbursed by the quartermaster of the 
command, upon accounts supported by affidavits, and approved by the 
commanding officer. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.