1. Graham enclosed Brig. Gen. Alexander Macomb’s 9 Sept. 1815 letter to William Harris Crawford (2 pp.; DNA: RG 107, LRUS, M-1815), recommending that Lt. Col. James House be allowed double rations to cover the extra expenses he incurred as commander of the post on Governor’s Island, owing to its status as a “saluting port” that drew “the attention of all strangers” and received officers from other countries.

2. The enclosures have not been found, but they evidently included an extract from the fifth section of “An Act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States,” 16 Mar. 1802, which authorized an allowance “to the commanding officers of each separate post, such additional number of rations as the President of the United States shall, from time to time, direct, having respect to the special circumstances of each post” (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends , 2:132, 134). The general orders that Graham enclosed were evidently those of 9 June 1810, 25 Aug. 1812, and 23 Feb. 1814. The first listed the posts and stations at which commanding officers were entitled to double rations and noted that the commander at New Orleans was allowed triple rations; appended was a list of six posts subsequently added and a 25 Aug. 1812 statement that “Generals commanding separate armies” were also entitled to double rations. The second general order promulgated the rule regarding commanders of separate armies, and the third directed that “general or other officers commanding districts shall, while so doing, receive double rations; which will supersede all other grants of double rations at posts within the district” (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1832–61). description ends , Military Affairs, 4:374).