Sergeants.4
Corporals.4
Bombardiers.9
Gunners.18
Matrosses.22
Contingent men.3
Drummers.2
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Total.62

"But a company choosing to discharge any of their present sergeants, corporals, bombardiers, or gunners, will have so many more matrosses to keep, and all future vacancies of sergeants, corporals, bombardiers, or gunners will be supplied by matrosses only, until the establishment is brought to

Sergeants.2
Corporals.2
Bombardiers.3
Matrosses to be called Gunners.50
Contingent men.3
Drummers.2
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Total.62

"It is further intended that fifteen men of each company should be artificers in the following proportion, viz.:—

Carpenters.4
Smiths.5
Collar-maker.1
Wheelers.4
Tailor.1
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Total.15

"The captains are therefore to endeavour to preserve in each company as many men of those trades as will make up the number required; and should there be in any of the companies more of one trade than the complement, they will be set down as men to be transferred to some other company that may be in want of them. These fifteen artificers, with ten labourers from each company, are to be employed as such at Woolwich, and at the different outposts or garrisons where they may be stationed, and will receive the following extra pay, viz.:—

Smiths.One at 2s. per diem.
Two at 1s. 3d. per diem.
Two at 1s. per diem.
Wheelers.One at 2s. per diem.
Two at 1s. 3d. per diem.
One at 1s. per diem.
Carpenters.One at 2s. 6d. per diem.
Two at 1s. 3d. per diem.
One at 1s. per diem.
Collar-maker.One at 1s. 3d. per diem.
Tailor.One at 1s. 3d. per diem.

and the labourers at 9d., for so many days as they work, which will be four in each week, the other two days being reserved for their being trained as Artillerymen. The other twenty-five men per company are to do all the duty of the Regiment.

"Such men as are entitled to go to the Invalids are to receive the pension, and whom the officers may wish to have discharged will, of course, receive that provision.

"If any of the sergeants, corporals, bombardiers, or gunners, who from their services are not entitled to the Invalids or pension, should wish to be discharged, and can take care of themselves, they should be parted with in preference to matrosses, as the difference of their pay will be a saving to Government, and the establishment will approach so much the nearer to what it is intended to be. It is not, however, meant that men under this description, whom the officers may wish to keep should be discharged, but only such as they can spare without prejudice to their companies....