A. The corps of Engineers to consist of one Regiment or two battalions of Artillery, each battalion consisting of four companies each company of fifty twe sixty four rank and file; and of a corps of Artificers, with the following commissioned and non commissioned officers, pay and other emoluments. Number Per sons. Rank. Pay p! month in dollars. Rations per day. Cloathing. Rations, For age per day. 1 Major General Commandant (Vide General Staff). 1 Colonel. 110 1 12221 16 First Lieu, 2 to each company 30 1 19 24 do. ...do., including Paymaster, QM, Adjutant. 25 1 Conductors as many as may be found necessary to be appointed out of the non commissioned officers with the additional pay of 2 dollars per month. The ration of provision to consist of 1 pound of bread or flour, or Rice, 4 of a pound of salt or 1 lb of fresh beef pork or fish, one gill of vinegar, and half a gill of salt; each part of the ration to be estimated as follows and when not furnished to the troops in service to be paid for at the rates annexed to each. Officers if they prefer it to be at liberty to receive the value of the ration in money. All the troops to be obliged to receive fish, two days in the week. No Regiment to be allowed to draw rations for more than four women to serve as nurses in the Regimental hospitals and to receive four dollars per month in addition to a ration per day. A weekly allowance of soap to be made at the rate of for each commissioned officer and for each non commissioned officer or private, all persons entitled to provisions to be entitled to soap at the same rate. 76112°-22-VOL 25-14 Rations Forage per day. The ration of forage to consist of the following articles to be estimated at the rates annexed to each. 12 lb hay. 8 quarts of oats or other grain equivalent. 7/90 5/90 12/90 When officers entitled to forage are absent from their corps on duty and cannot draw it they shall be paid for it at the rates abovementioned, which shall also be done as to any articles not furnished when with their corps. F. The articles of cloathing, already enumerated to be furnished to the non commissioned officers, soldiers and others, to be estimated at the following rates: and when not furnished to be paid for accordingly; also when more than the stipulated allowance shall be furnished, there shall be a deduction from the pay at the same rates, viz. The idea of the Confederation being adhered to, the number of troops to be raised must be distributed to the several states according to the proportion of their respective populations; and each must appoint Regimental officers in proportion to the number of men it furnishes but as no State will have to furnish a complete Regiment this apportionment of the officers will become extremely difficult, if not impracticable, on any satisfactory footing, and the filling up vacancies as they arise will create endless perplexity. It would be much to be preferred that the states could be induced to transfer this right to Congress and indeed without it there can never be |