[44] The Marine Infantry do not serve like our Marines on board ship, but only on the coast. The Marine Artillery and the Engineering pupils (Maschinen-lehrlinge) serve on board.
[45] For the Outfit Department (Monturs Commission,) see a previous Note. The business of the Remounting Department or Remounting Establishments (Remontirungs Anstalten) is to supply the cavalry with horses. There are several of these great establishments for buying and breeding horses; the largest of all is in Gallicia.
[46] Auditoriat.—There is an Auditor or Military Judge in each regiment. He has passed through his course as a law student, and declared for this branch. In every province there is a central department. These law officials rise through all the grades from Lieutenant up to General.
[47] One of the marks of superior rank is the amount granted for allowances, for which there is a carefully graduated scale.
[48] In the School Companies there are two different sets of Scholars, those who have come from the Houses of Education or from private schools, and those who attend after two years’ service in the Army. These are frequentanten in the School Companies, but all alike, who come from the School Companies, are frequentanten in the Academies.
[49] It appears, however, that a transfer of pupils, for example, from the Engineers’ Academy to Wiener Neustadt, in consequence of incapacity for Mathematics, is allowed at a later standing. After passing a year at Znaim, a young man may enter the second year’s course at Neustadt.
[50] The wishes of the parents are, of course, consulted in the case of paying pupils, but it is said that their consent is very generally given.
[51] The Law of Nations as it exists de facto without consideration of its principles.
[52] This is at present, in point of fact, omitted for want of time.
[53] The Artillery is recruited very largely from Bohemia and Moravia. A knowledge of the Bohemian language (which is pretty nearly the same as Moravian) is therefore essential for an Officer in the command of Artillerymen.