From Miner Ober and Non-Commissioned Officers must be skilled in Engineering and knowledgeable in strength in gunpowder and, being in mines, be able to see and understand how much of what land is in it, like in sand and in clay.
use powder in black soil, strong or loose, so that the excess is not lost in vain.
About being Miners in aproshas and lowering them into the ground right up to the ditch.
When the aproshes are close to the glaiyas to be brought, then he must quickly go with the miners in the aproshes and from the aproshes to the shown place he will sink into the ground right up to the ditch and when he passes through the ditch then set up his gallery and prepare the mines according to his science.
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According to the newly conquered enemy fortresses, the General Engineer must demand from the enemy Chief Engineer without delay that all places in the state of that fortress be shown to him, and especially all the suterengs, mines, powder magazines and other similar dangerous places and look carefully so that There was nowhere where there was a lit wick, where would you find the lit ones, extinguish them immediately and report to the commander of the General for committing to the enemy what, according to military regulations, would be worthy.
About the requirement to the Engineer from the enemy Engineer about the state of all sorts of inventory supplies in the conquered cities.
The General or, subsequently, the commander of the Chief Engineer from the enemy Engineer must demand and accept an inventory of the state of all fortification materials and supplies in that conquered fortress and assign a proper guard to it immediately and thoroughly inspect whether there are any fire materials in that fortress from the commandant the commander of the armies will be given the inventory! Mind then, with it, the material accepted from the Non-Pryatelsky Engineer will count in everything, whether it is similar to the one received from the Nepryatelsky Engineer, and then, having examined all the materials, give them to the parish who should and order them to be maintained in their department, and the income and expenses are to be conducted as decrees and regulations command.
Oh, separated! and the Engineers from those taken from the non-Pryatel cities in the fortresses for the money bought from the inhabitants of the bells.
There is a custom all over Europe when conquered enemy fortresses are accepted, then the inhabitants in that fortress are forced to buy back their bells, and the money taken from them by the inhabitants for the bells is divided by the Engineers and Artillery servants of which ranks who were during the attacks of that fortress, and therefore, in the army in such cases, do the same. There are no bells in Turkish fortresses, and during attacks, the Engineers have unbearable work, and for the sake of this, when some Turkish fortresses are conquered, then the Engineers will be given awards based on the examination of their work.
About the division of 'Engineers' when Armenia is prepared for battle against the non-Russian army in different divisions.
When the army is about to prepare for battle against the non-Army, then the Engineers will be divided into different divisions, unless cases of need require that at that moment during the battle it will be necessary to make a transfer or arrange a bridge or build a bridge so that they are ready for this and listen to those Generals to whom they will decide their orders without waiting for an order from their General Engineer to avoid loss in such cases from delaying a good opportunity.
About giving engineers apartments from which they could receive growth and spoils.
When the company is about to be completed, then regiments are assigned to winter quarters, and especially in the non-Russian side, and according to the regulations they are given growth and destruction of both cavalry and non-cavalry, while it happens that engineers are assigned to outposts on the borders and in other places without commands, for the sake of this it is necessary henceforth, although they will stand at outposts and on the borders assign them appropriate apartments from which they could receive rashi and allowances in kind or money, like others according to their ranks.
From the above instructions we see that the Mineral Company was subordinate to the General Feldzeichmeister.
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Regulations on the maintenance and government of the Engineering Corps and Fortification 1).