Eighteen Majors.
Fifty-eight First Captains.
Ten Second Captains.
Ten First Lieutenants.
There is no examination for entrance into this corps. Appointments are made by the generals, and we were told that there was some scope for “protection.”
3. There is also a smaller corps for the purpose of surveying, called the Corps of Geographical Engineers, connected with the staff, inasmuch as some of the staff officers draw the maps on a large scale, which it is the business of this corps to reduce. It is usually occupied on the Great Surveys of the Empire; at present it is employed on the Survey of the Principalities.
It consists of—
Eleven Generals.
One Colonel, called the Director.
Two Lieutenant-Colonels.