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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
Appendix 
of Orders, 
Memos, &c. 
No. Y. 
Fredericton, 
Feb. 7, 1862. 
Memorandum . 
1. The detachment of troops due this day at Fredericton from 
Petersville, will be stationed in the barracks,, Eoyal Artillery park, in 
rooms pointed oat by the Barrack-master. 
2. The guns and equipment sleighs will be parked at the Store 
Barracks under charge of one non-commissioned officer, and three 
gunners, E.A., to be furnished as a reinforcement to the guard at these 
barracks. Care will be taken that the guns and equipment sleighs are 
parked in separate divisions to avoid confusion in starting to-morrow 
morning. 
3. Immediately on arrival at Fredericton, the officer commanding 
the detachment will order a non-commissioned officer from each corps 
to attend at the commissariat office, to settle for rations for the forward 
journey. 
4. A non-commissioned officer from each corps will be furnished 
for gate duty at the barracks. 
5. The detachment will proceed to-morrow morning to Tilley's, as 
follows 
(1) A sleigh with the rations and cooks, one for each corps 
under a non-commissioned officer, Eoyal Artillery, will 
leave Fredericton at 6 a.m. 
(2) The equipment with its detachment at 7 a.m. 
(3) The remainder of the troops, together with the guns at 
8 a.m. 
6. The officer commanding the detachment will be careful to 
include in his telegram to head quarters, the strength of the officers as 
well as of the men. 
7. Marching-in and marching-out states will be furnished on arrival 
and departure by each corps to the corporal of Eoyal Engineers in 
attendance. 
8. With reference to the forward journey, one of the drivers is 
always appointed head teamster, for each train of sleighs, and the 
officer commanding the detachment will take care to enforce the order, 
that no sleigh shall be stopped for the purpose of watering or feeding 
the horses, or shall go on ahead except by permission of the head team¬ 
ster. The head teamster will lead the line of sleighs, and will regulate 
the pace. Every sleigh will keep the sleigh in rear of it within hail, 
therefore should the non-commissioned officer in No. 1 sleigh see 
