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430 APPENDIX. the ' Board ; ' but I also understand that this proceeding on the part of the Duke was regarded in the office as a rather eccentric piece of supererogation. NoTK 40. — The steps taken by the Treasury were from time to time imparted to the Duke ; and he might have insisted at once that, instead of the fencing, there shouhl lie absohite and prompt compliance with Mr FiMcr's wishes. Of Mr Filder's appeals for pressed hay, and of the non-compliance with them, Lord Raglan was continually reminding the Duke, as e.<i., in his letters of Nov. 18, Nov. 28, Jan. 23, Jan. 29, and despatches of Jan. 22, Jan. 25, Jan. 30. NOTES TO CHAPTER VI. NoTK 1. — ' The French receive meat only once in three days, ' and then only the half of a French pound. Occasionally ' they only receive it the fourth day. ' — Lord Raglan to Duke of Newcastle, 20th January 1855. In later years (1870-71), the insufficiency of the French soldier's ration was admitted and an augmentation took place. Rations of the French Soldier, The normal ration of the French soldier when he first came out to the East seems to have been : — Grammes. Bread,* 700, or Biscuit,* 550 Meat,t 250 Rice, 60 Sugar, 20 Coffee, 16 Salt, 16 The meat-ration was increased in May 1854 to 300 grammes, Ordre General, No. 51, 'Rapport,' p. 18; and at a subsequent period the bread-ration was raised to 750 grammes. — Ibid., p. 123. The meat-ration might be represented by either fresh meat, l)reserved meat, or bacon ; and in the latter case it was to weigh 250, not 300 grammes. — Ibid. At a time (in February 1850) when the scurvy was raging, the authorities, it seems, undertook that the alternations between fresh and salted meat should stand thus : — Fresh meat, . . 4 times in 10 days. Bacon, ... 3 do. do. Preserved meat, . 3 do. do. — Ibid. • ' Rapport,' p. 60. t ihid., p. 18-