They may delegate this power to selected officers in detached commands, but a close watch must be kept on expenditure under this head.

Opportunities should be afforded to timid informers who are afraid to compromise themselves by entering camp to interview officers at some distance out and in secrecy.
_5th_ .-- Cavalry horses and Mounted Infantry ponies must be saved as much as is compatible with occasional forced and rapid marches.

On ordinary occasions the riders should dismount, from time to time, and march alongside of their horses or ponies.
_6th_ .-- The special attention of all officers is called to the careful treatment of pack-animals, and officers in command of columns and parties will be held strictly responsible that the animals are properly loaded for the march, saved as much as possible during it, and carefully attended to and fed after it.

Officers in command will ascertain by daily personal supervision and inspection that these orders are carried out.
_7th_ .-- It must be remembered that the chief object of traversing the country with columns is to cultivate friendly relations with the inhabitants, and at the same time to put before them evidences of our power, thus gaining their good-will and their confidence.

It is therefore the bounden duty of commanding officers to ascertain that the troops under their command are not permitted to injure the property of the people or to wound their susceptibilities.
_8th_ .-- The most injurious accounts of our intentions have been circulated amongst, and believed by, the people, and too much pains cannot be taken to eradicate this impression, and to assure the people both by act and word of our good-will towards the law-abiding.