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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
Followers. 
The only native followers, public or private, allowed to proceed with the troops 
will be as follows, and the extra carriage will be permitted for the conveyance of 
their baggage:— 
Twenty-six cooks for each. British Regiment. 
Six do. for a Field Battery R.A. 
Five do. for a Mountain Battery. 
Three do. for a Company of R.E. 
Puckal Bhesties according to existing Regu¬ 
lations. 
Hand Bhesties according to existing Regulations. 
One servant for Mess Kit of every three Officers. 
One grasscutter for each Officer’s horse. 
One Syce or grasscutter for each battery horse 
of a Field Battery. 
Twenty-five muleteers for each Mountain 
Battery R.A. 
One grasscutter for every two mules of a 
Mountain Battery R.A. or Native Artillery. 
Three artificers for each Battery of R.A., seven¬ 
teen for Native Artillery. 
Regimental and Battery Officers are allowed 
each a soldier servant. 
In addition to the above, on the 3rd of February a proportionate allowance was 
granted for Staff Officers, their Clerks and Offices. 
On the 14th February the Hospital Establishment suffered some reduction, and 
on the 23rd February the following order was published:— 
Adjutant- GeneraVs Office* 
Head Quarters, Camp Adabagah, 
23rd February, 1868. 
Camp Equipage. 
One bell tent (double cloth) for every three 
Officers (two senior Officers of a Regt. 
one between them). 
Four bell tents (double cloth) for Hospital of 
European Regiment. 
Two do. (double cloth) for Hospital of Native 
Infantry or Cavalry Regiment. 
One do. (double cloth) for Hospital of each 
Battery of R.A. 
One do. (single cloth) for ten Staff Serjeants or 
Warrant Officers. 
One do. (single cloth) for eight Native Officers. 
One do. (single cloth) for fourteen non-commis¬ 
sioned rank and file. 
One do. (single cloth) for eighteen Native non¬ 
commissioned rank and file. 
One do. (single cloth) for Guards of each Regt. 
One do. (single cloth) for Stores of each Regt. 
One do. (single cloth) for Hospital Establish¬ 
ment of each Battery or Regiment. 
One do. (single cloth) for office purposes of every 
five clerks. 
Carriage . 
One mule for every two bell tents (single 
cloth). 
Two do. for every three bell tents (double 
cloth). 
75 lbs. weight for each Officer’s personal baggage. 
30 lbs. do. for baggage of every Warrant and 
Native Officer. 
25 lbs. do. for baggage of every Staff Serjt. 
or non-commissioned rank and file. 
75 lbs. weight for cooking utensils of Co. of Euro¬ 
pean Infantry or Battery R.A. 
150 lbs. do. Q.-M. Stores of a Regiment of 
Infantry (European). 
75 lbs. do. for Regiment of Native Infantry or 
Cavalry, or Native Battery. 
159 lbs. do. for Armourer’s Stores of each Regt. 
of Infantry or Cavalry. 
150 lbs. do. for Mess Kit of Six Officers. 
Entrenching tools, hospital stores, Staff Officer’s offices, and spare ammunition 
according to actual weight to be specially sanctioned. 
Sic/e Carriage . 
One doolie, with six bearers, for every 100 non¬ 
commissioned rank and file, European or 
Native. 
Two mules with pads for every 100 non-commis¬ 
sioned rank and file, European. 
One mule with pads for every 100 non-commis¬ 
sioned rank and file, Native. 
