[Orderly Book; Lewis:]
Detatchment Orders.
Nadawa Island July 8th. 1804.
In order to insure a prudent and regular use of all provisions
issued to the crew of
the Batteaux in future, as also to provide
for the equal distribution of
the same among the individuals of
the several messes, The Commanding
Officers do appoint the
following persons to recieve,
cook, and take charge of the provisions
which may from time to time be issued to their respective
messes, (viz) John B. Thompson to
Sergt. Floyd's mess,
William Warner to Sergt. Ordway's Mess, and John Collins
to Sergt. Pryor's Mess.
These Superintendants
of Provision, are held immediately responsible
to the commanding Officers for a
juducious consumption
of the provision
which they recieve; they are to cook the
same for their several messes in
due time, and in such manner
as is most wholesome and best calculated to
afford the greatest
proportion of nutriment; in their mode of cooking they
are to
exercise their own judgment;
they shall allso point out what
part, and what proportion of the mess
provisions are to be consumed
at each stated
meal (i. e.) morning, noon and night; nor
is any man at any time to take
or consume any part of the mess
provisions without the privity, knowledge
and consent of the
Superintendant. The superintendant is also held
responsible
for all the cooking utensels of his mess. in consideration of
the duties imposed by this order on Thompson, Warner, and
Collins,
they will in future be exempt from guard duty, tho
they will still be held
on the royster for that duty, and their
regular tour shall be performed by
some one of their rispective
messes; they are exempted also from pitching
the tents of the
mess, collecting firewood, and forks poles &c for
cooking and
drying such fresh meat as may be furnished them; those duties
are to be also performed by the other members of the
mess.
