[226] On December 22, 1819, the House of Representatives passed a resolution directing the Secretary of War, J. C. Calhoun, to prepare a system of martial law and field service. His report was communicated to the House on December 26, 1820, and was entitled _Systems of Martial Law, and Field Service, and Police_. It is composed of two parts, namely, _General Regulations for the Army_, and _A System of Martial Law_. It is from these regulations that the following sketch of the routine life at a military post is built up. The report is published in the _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp. 201-274. [227] Ingersoll's _A History of the War Department of the United States_, pp. 205, 206. [228] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 119. [229] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 210. [230] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 95. [231] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 210. [232] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp. 217, 218. [233] These account books are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. [234] Bishop's _Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota_, p. 161. [235] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 22, 1831; _Post Returns_, March, 1840, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C. [236] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 97. [237] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 345. [238] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 336, 344. [239] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 341, 342; _Post Returns_, September, 1828, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C. [240] _Taliaferro's Diary_, February 3, 1831. [241] This report is published in _the American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 273-277. [242] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp. 558, 706, Vol. III, p. 115. [243] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 345. [244] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. I, p. 476. [245] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 341, 342. [246] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, p. 277. [247] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 205; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 101. [248] Eastman's _Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling_, pp. 144, 145. [249] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 265. [250] _Detroit Gazette_, February 18, 1820. [251] Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River_, Vol. I, p. 305. [252] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, July 15, 1852. [253] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, p. 26; _Post Returns_, July, 1827, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C. [254] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 340. [255] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p. 432.