This document provides additional information to the document about the food that a recruit was to receive during the first three months of his service in 1809.

The document was distributed among the manors of Livland's province as a circular letter.

The misprint of the document 26 Rbl. 75 Kop. instead of 26 Rbl. 57 Kop was not corrected.

More comments see below.

Befehl
Seiner Kaiserlichen Majestät,
des Selbstherrschers aller Reussen etc. etc. etc.
aus der Livländischen Gouvernements-Regierung,
an
sämmtlicher Stadtmagisträte und Guts- und Pastorats-Inhaber des Livl. Gouvernements.

Mittelst des unterm 9.Oktober d.J. an sämmtliche Rekrutenstellende Theile erlassenen, gedruckten Rescripts wurde denselben bekannt gemacht, daß die diesjährige RekrutenMitgabe

a. in einer Summe von 65 Rubel B.A. für die RekrutenBekleidung,
b. in 3 Rubel B.A. zur Unterhaltung des Rekruten, bis er zum Regimente kommt, und
c. in Bezahlung des zu 6 Ck. Mehl, 8 Gz. Grütze und 6 Pfund Salz anzuschlagenden, und nach den Preisen des NovemberMonats zu berechnenden Proviants

bestehe, und der Preis des Proviante annoch bekannt gemacht werden würde.

Wenn nun nach dem, für den NovemberMonat d.J. bestätigten GouvernementsPreise der vorgedachte, dem Rekruten mitzugebende Proviant, mit 26 Rbl. 75 Kop. B.A. zu bezahlen ist, und demnach für jeden einzelnen Rekruten

erlegt werden muß; nach der von dem Dirigirenden Senate in dem Ukas vom 20. November 1816 getroffenen Bestimmung aber kein Rekrut empfangen werden soll, bevor nicht dessen Mitgabe an die Kronskasse bezahlt worden; so werden sämmtliche Rekrutenstellende Theile hiedurch von der Livl. GouvernementsRegierung angewiesen, die RekrutenMitgabe mit 94 Rubel 57 Kop. B.A. resp. in der Rigischen, Dörptschen und Arensburgschen Kreisrenterei zu erlegen und dieses Geld früher zur Kronskasse gegen Quittung einzutragen, als der Rekrut bei der RekrutenEmpfangs Kommission vorstellig gemacht wird, indem dieselbe keinen Rekruten, ohne Ablieferung der RentereiQuittung, empfangen wird.

RigaSchloß, den 4.November 1818.

(L.S.)

J. Du Hamel, Civil-Gouverneur.
G.Rickmann, Regierungsrath.
Graf Koskull, Regierungsrath.
J. von Rogge, Regierungsassessor.

Secretair Hehn.

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Order
of His Imperial Majesty,
the Autocrat of all Russians etc. etc. etc.
via the government of Livland's province
to
all of the municipalities of the towns and to all owners of manors and pastorats in the Livland's province.

The all institutions providing recruits were informed in October 9 by a printed rescript that this year additionally to the delivered recruits the following charge should be paid:

a. 65 Roubles in bank assignations for clothes of a recruit.
b. 3 Roubles in bank assignations for maintenance of a recruit till he arrives at his regiment.
c. money to cover the expenses for 6 chetveriks of flour, 8 garnitzs of groat and 6 pounds of salt according to the prices of the November

The price of the provisions would to be set later.

Now the province prices in November are set to be 26 Roub. 75 Kop for all of the provisions a recruit should be supplied with, and therefore the additional charge to each delivered recruit is

according to the Order (Ukas) of the governing Senat November 20, 1816, no recruit can be accepted before this additional charge is paid at a State treasury office, so all providers of recruits are hereby informed by the Livland's province authorities that the additional charge for a recruit in amount 94 Roubles 57 Kop. bank assignations should be paid at the apriņķis Treasury of either Riga or Dorpat or Arensburg, and this money should be paid against a receipt before the recruit is offered to the commission of recruiting, and by this no recruit would be accepted without the receipt of Treasury.

Riga Castle, November 4, 1818

(L.S.)

J. Du Hamel, Civil-Gouverneur.
G.Rickmann, Regierungsrath.
Graf Koskull, Regierungsrath.
J. von Rogge, Regierungsassessor.

Secretair Hehn.

 Comments:

The previous (1809) document of this kind informed about the food a recruit consumed in 3 months. In the actual document no term is mentioned, and one can only estimate that the amount of the food is greater. 1 chetverik is equal to 26.24 liters, so 6 chetveriks are 157,44 liters - so much flour was allocated to a recruit. As a chetverik consisted of 8 garnitzs, it means that 1 chetverik of groats was to be allocated. It seems that recruits consumed too much salt - each of them was supplied with 2.46 metric kilograms of salt.

It is not possible to calculate the prices of the food products, because in this document only the total price is mentioned. It is clear only that the price 26.57 Roubles now was much greater than previously (16.56 Roubles).

The price for clothes (56 Roubles) seems to be very high. I think that this money could cover expenses for uniforms of all kind (summer. winter, parade etc.)

I do not know exactly, but maybe that the 3 Roubles mentioned here as salary really were paid in cash to the recruits.