Note 4 — 1772—1779.

The order upon this subject is given at length, as it touches upon other matters besides the discipline of the company.

Chief Engineer’s Orders, Gibraltar, 31st May, 1772.

“By the Governor’s orders of the 20th May, the company of soldier-artificers now raising and forming under the command of the Chief Engineer as captain, Captain Phipps, Captain-Lieutenant Lefance, and Lieutenant Evelegh, are appointed officers to the said company, and are, therefore, conformable to their respective ranks, henceforth to take under their command the conduct and inspection of the non-commissioned officers and private men of the said company, and to pay all sort of military attentions to their good order and regular behaviour, according to the rules and discipline of war;^[4a] also to the particular standing orders, as well as to the accustomary regulations of the garrison relative to all the required and expected duties of a soldier and an artificer, both when on, as well as when off, duty. Captain Phipps is also appointed to keep the accounts and to see the company duly paid their full military subsistence. The company to be paid conformable to His Majesty’s Warrant dated March 6th, 1772, upon the same footing as the rest of the troops in garrison, viz., at seventy pence sterling the Mexico or Cobb, agreeable to which, the non-commissioned officers and men are to be paid weekly as follows, the deduction for the surgeon excepted:—

Sergeant-major 5 dollars, 3 reals, 3¹⁄₇ quarts.

Sergeants—each 2 ” 5 ” 9³⁄₇ ”

Corporals—each 2 ” 0 ” 12⁴⁄₇ ”

Privates and drummer—each. 1 ” 4 ” 0

One-halfpenny sterling a-week to be stopped from each private and drummer for the surgeon, and the non-commissioned officers to be stopped in proportion to their respective pays.”