18. Military Law, in the third class, one lecture a week.
All these lectures are given in the morning, between eight and one o’clock.
19. The French Language, a course of three years in different classes; into each of which the pupils enter according to the knowledge they possess of the language; six lectures a week for each class.
20. The Russian Language, four lectures a week.
The above two courses are in the afternoon.
The practical work is done after the end of the courses of the second and third classes. They consist in making the officers draw plans for military objects, make sketches of ground.
These exercises are completed by a journey of fifteen days under the conduct of an officer of the staff, in order to teach the service of an officer of the staff in the country.
The instruments of teaching consist of—
1. A library for the use of professors and students, and a collection of maps and plans, all under the charge of a librarian living within the school.
2. A collection of models for the courses of artillery and fortification, under the care of a commissary of the school.