Officers commanding troops send in advance requisitions specifying the quantities of each article needed, and the indent is met by the civil authorities.

Everything so indented for, including wood and grass, is supposed to be paid for, but in practice it is often impossible, with the agency available, to ensure actual payment to the persons entitled.

Troops and the people in civil camps must live, and all that can be done is to check abuse, so far as possible, by vigilant administration.

The obligation of landholders to supply necessaries for troops and officials on the march is so well established that it forms one of the conditions of the contract with Government under which proprietors in the permanently settled province of Benares hold their lands.

The extreme abuses of which the system is capable under a lax and corrupt native Government are abundantly illustrated in the author's _Journey through the Kingdom of Oudh_.