APPENDIX. APPENDIX I. WARRANT FOR FORMATION OF THE FIRST COMPANY OF THE CORPS. GEORGE R. WHEREAS it hath been represented by the Governor, LieutenantGovernor, and Chief Engineer of our garrison and fortress of Gibraltar, that many advantages would arise to our service if the fortifications, buildings, and repairs in that place, which are under the department of the Ordnance, were performed and carried on for the future by a military company of artificers, and that besides a saving of expense, the said company, by being subject to military command and discipline, would be more orderly and regular in their behaviour than has been hitherto experienced in the hired artificers employed there: Our will and pleasure therefore is that a company of artificers be forthwith raised, formed, and from time to time recruited with such soldiers serving in any of our regiments doing duty at Gibraltar, as may be fit for that purpose, being volunteers, and having the consent of the Colonels or Field Officers commanding such regiments respectively, or with any other men properly qualified, who shall have been bred to the trades of stonecutters, masons, miners, lime-burners, carpenters, smiths, wheelers, or gardeners, and who shall be duly enlisted in the said company, which shall not exceed the number of sixty-eight, non-commissioned officers and drummers included, with the respective pays mentioned in the establishment hereunto annexed. Our will and pleasure also is, that as soon as the said Company is raised and completed, you do cause them to be employed in performing and carrying on the fortifications, buildings, and repairs at Gibraltar, and to be instructed and paid, from time to time, by the paymaster of the Ordnance there, upon the same footing as the rest of our troops in that garrison are paid. And you are to cause such of the artificers hired in England, and now employed on the works at Gibraltar, as shall not enlist in the said company, to be sent back to England as soon as the nature of the service will admit. Our further will and pleasure is, that the said company shall be under the command and direction of the chief engineer of the said garrison for the time being, who is hereby appointed captain of the said company, and of such engineer or engineers serving at Gibraltar, as he shall find necessary for his assistance in the command of the said company. And we do hereby authorize you to pay, or cause to be paid, unto the noncommissioned officers and private men composing the said company, such allowance per diem for working money as you shall think fit, not exceeding two reals per diem each for the days they are actually employed on the fortifications, works, and repairs, over and above their established pay; the expense of the whole to be inserted in your estimates, and to be presented to Parliament. Lastly, we do hereby require the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Officer, commanding in our said Garrison now and for the time being, to be aiding and assisting to the utmost of their power in carrying these our orders into execution; and for so doing, this shall be as well to you, as to them, and to all others concerned, a sufficient warrant. Given at our Court of St. James', the 6th day of March, ROCHFORD. To our Trusty and well-beloved Councillor Henry Seymour Conway, Lieutenant-General of our Ordnance, and to the rest of the principal Officers of the same, and to the MasterGeneral, Lieutenant-General, and the principal Officers of our Ordnance for the time being. ESTABLISHMENT of a MILITARY COMPANY of ARTIFICERS to serve in the GARRISON and FORTRESS of GIBRALTAR. APPENDIX II. MASTERS-GENERAL of the ORDNANCE in command of the Corps, since its ARTHUR, DUKE of WELLINGTON, K. G., G.C.B., G.C.H. SIR GEORGE MURRAY, G.C.B., G.C.H. RICHARD HUSSEY, LORD VIVIAN, G.C,B., G.C.H. SIR GEORGE MURRAY, G.C.B., G.C.H. HENRY, MARQUIS of ANGLESEY, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.H. FITZROY, LORD RAGLAN, G.C.B. CHIEF ENGINEERS and INSPECTORS-GENERAL of FORTIFICATIONS, Second in command of the Corps, from 1787. (From 1772 to 1788 the officers in command of companies corresponded direct with the MasterGeneral and Board.) Lieutenant-General SIR FREDERICK MULCASTER, K.C.H. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL of the ORDNANCE. General SIR HEW D. Ross, K.C.B., during the absence of July, 1834. LORD RAGLAN in Turkey 2 May, 1854. |