1. Military Orphan Asylum.
Military orphans and other deserving candidates for the army are supported in this establishment. They are educated at the public schools.
The number of pupils is 150. They pass thence into the other institutions, according to their talents and final destination.
2. Military Technical Schools.
At present four in number. It is proposed to reduce them to two. The course is of three years. Number of pupils, 150 in each school. They are educated for the Technical Academy, and to provide good non-commissioned officers for the Artillery and Engineers. They enter at 14 and leave at 16 years of age, at the end of their third year’s course of study. Those enter the Technical Academy who have most distinguished themselves; the others are sent either for a two years’ course to the Division Schools, or else to the Artillery Officers’ Aspirant Schools.
3. The Military College.
The course is for two years. This is chiefly intended as a preparatory school for the Military Academy at Wiener Neustadt.
4. The Military Academies.
These institutions are intended to provide the army with officers properly qualified for the various branches of the army.
(1.) The Wiener Neustadt Academy.—The course is of four years. Number of scholars 100 per annum, or a total of 400. The academy is intended for the education of candidates for the Infantry Regiments of the Line and Military Frontier, the Jagers, and the Cavalry.