MediaArhiv

Part 9

page 97/120

14. At all crossings and during campaigns and in the camp of non-commissioned officers, craftsmen and sailors, have them painted and distributed according to pontoon numbers, so that in every case, each with their own numbers, they will be given utmost care and can give an answer to the Officer for their assignment; besides, at the right time crossings and exercises in all pontoon installations and use that profession of people such as boilermakers, blacksmiths, soldering workers and other ranks of craftsmen, so that each of these tasks and teams of people have sufficient skill and agility in everything.

15. During crossings where a pontoon bridge will be built, the Major General or Headquarters Officer from the Artillery must be sure to ensure that the Artillery burdens and convoys are first crossed without greedy horses; then the Commissarate and the Commander of the Army and Artillery convoys (which usually have their own camp at the artillery park), and then the General on Duty must see that each regiment follows quietly and involuntarily; the convoys did not go in two, but in one cart, and as often or rarely as was assigned by the pontoon captain; Do not harm these commanders and subcommanders with any kind of insult or violence, because otherwise he has the will not to let such a strongman cross the bridge until the satisfaction is done to him; On the contrary, the notices seen and from the Oeyitzers are to be announced to the Artillery commander, who is immediately subdued in the proper manner.

16. When crossing a Provencal store, the commander must be OUTSIDE of that Government and always ensure that violence and disorder do not occur from his command.

17. However, which regiment or convoys, after which they will be transported for the Artillery, must act according to the disposition of the Commander-in-Chief of the army; for when necessary, he is often forced to have different fronts on the other side of which guns or corps, for the sake of doing this in advance, let the Artillery commander know who to let through the bridge behind the command line, and for duty it is also determined who to follow, for which reason they cannot appear in any way embarrassed.

18. Since the aforementioned pontoon and other tinkering bridges are no small cost to our treasury, and the marktenters, although they are there for the benefit of the army, are, however, not less and for them a way to enrichment serves’ for the sake of such crossings, every marktenter must have with him two fatty two-size boards and a barrel, and when the Artillery! and for any bridge is asked, then they would without any delay, by order, they were placed on duty at the Artillery, and when the bridge was raised, they were given to them without greedy withholding, to whom each had his own signs on the boards and barrels; and if the pontoon crew does not give up any favors for the sake of it, then collect from the one to whom that premium was entrusted 10 kopecks for each board, and 50 kopecks for a barrel, and give it to the offended person without delay, but do not collect for broken and damaged ones; and to know how many markenters there are in which regiment there is, give a register to the pontoon commands. The indicated boards should be used for trestles on shallow banks, and barrels, in the absence of pontoons, should be supplemented with distance barrel bridges when they are needed.

19. It is necessary to talk a little about the ferry crossings about swamps and streams and similar viscous and swollen places, of which a small place in the following armm causes a great stop and breaks in the cart gear, soaks belongings and other damages and obstacles are caused, which for the sake of the need to have in In the pontoon house, several working people with axes and shovels, whom, according to orders from the Quartermaster General's Party, to the Pontoon Officer attached to it, with a decent number of non-commissioned officers, were sent in advance with reserve, so that until the Armenian came, they could prepare roads from brushwood, and possible ones from a nearby one There are bridges in different places, for the speedy and useful transition of the army, and for steppe cases, to have three fascines on the shelves, in each company with trench supplies, which should be used only in the most necessary and necessary places.