When the Field Engineer Colonel, by his seniority before the other brigade commanders, will follow to the General Majors, then he will be represented if the corps is not in the army, and the Garrison in the Ober Commandants and Commandants and in this order all the Headquarters of the Commanders at the corps will be released because they, in the positions assigned to them, have command over a large number of fortresses and carry out secondments considerable burden.
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Chief Officers are subject to examination by the General Engineer so that those whose skill exceeds others are at the corps and others are presented for graduation according to the state and knowledge of science and who are more than 15 years old at the corps position of Ober Officer corrected with a doctor - Mem then with the award of rank, and who, although Chief Officer
They will have the honor, but according to the judgment of art, it will be impossible to promote those above that rank into the corps, those of the same rank by seniority.
Canductors and Mineral Servants, according to their sciences, should have seniority before all Non-Commissioned Officers, and when they will properly correct their position in the corps and cannot assign a vacancy to a change of rank in the corps for lack of a vacancy, then those who are 6 lt for the corps in canductors and sergeants were released into regiments in Sub-Lieutenants, for this rank is equal to Engineer Ensign.
And release into the army both from the half and Garrison Engineers of the Headquarters and Chief Officers and Canductors, depending on the condition of the army and according to their desire for the half and Garrison regiments.
In the General-Quartermasters and in the General Quartermasters, Lieutenants in the Ober Quartermasters and in the regiments of our army in the Quartermasters, produce from the Corps of Engineers according to seniority and dignity whose position in wartime is indicated in the Military Regulations, and in peacetime, except for regimental quartermasters whose position always requires being with the regiments, other than to be according to the designation of the General Engineer with equal Dealings with field Engineers according to their skills and positions.
When from the Artillery and Ineanteri the Headquarters and Ober Oeitzers in the above ranks from Quartermaster to General Quartermaster wish to be and are older in equal ranks before the Engineers, they will be produced according to the certificate and consideration of the Generality and the Headquarters Oeitzers in the knowledge of Engineering ‘science, for their position may be greater with the practice of always Engineering. Not Artillery Komuzh, and in peacetime they are assigned to Engineering matters.
8th. When produced in the Corps of Engineers General Engineer
“To commit not according to seniority but according to the dignity of art is guilty of the elders with correct and clear reasons to stipulate if the younger ones in with the same ranks as them in the sciences, they will not have such knowledge, and when they have the right to produce, that is, the elder will ask for something that they have in the sciences with the younger ones or equal knowledge or even more art, then at a meeting of the Engineering Generals and Staff Officers, give an Exam to both of them, so that they can have a conversation with each other the meeting and each other, both theoretically and practically, by position and by skill, the tasks were decided, and the assembly only has the right to examine the decisions and tasks, and how one of them should not be solved and admits that the task cannot be done quickly, then the assembly is guilty of ordering the task to be solved, not to the one who assigned it, and then when the Exam is over then it is very correct and clear to stipulate, firstly, whether the tasks on both sides were equal and if the tasks were given on the one hand were important and although they will be solved on the other side, on the other hand there were tasks that were very unimportant, then she can be more respected for the inexperienced one who asks little or not very necessary tasks to be solved, even though he solved the most important questions, secondly, if although the elder is slow to decision or from him, unimportant tasks will be assigned, and those assigned from the junior will be assigned to him, then he will be carried out according to his seniority, the third will examine, moreover, and everyone according to his position is corrected in affairs, and when the eldest is more on business trips with different affairs in campaigns and at major posts, he is and corrects the affairs with diligence, then and for this reason he has the right to I produce.
Attachment X.
Staff of the Engineering Regiment 11 Jan. 1757 (P.S.Z.R.I. No. 10682) during the reign of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna.