manner in which the corps of Engineers [are] to be form'd. 1^st. From the officers drawn from the corps of Engineers and artillerist, and [from] such officers [of] the other corps as may be received into the Military School and [pass] examination. 2. From the Cadets & other young persons who should be received into the said Schools and [pass] examination. Examinations [strikethrough: upon] [strikethrough: all the corps] [strikethrough: departments of the army] [The] [Secretary] of War under the direction of the President to appoint a qualified officer or [other] persons in conjunction with the Director General and directors [of] the different schools [or] any Directors [strikethrough: thereto], to examine and interrogate the [officers] [cadets] or others [who are] destined to serve in [whatever] corps or branches of service. 2. The examinations to be [had] upon the [&] [strikethrough: scientific] Objects of instruction in the Fundamental School, and other Schools [into] which they may have been received. [The] The work done by the examinee officer or examinatee, and the intelligence which he [shall] discover in rendering an account of it, will form the principal bases upon which he is to be judged. His ability and good conduct will be taken also into consideration. To that end, the Examiners respectively, will [strikethrough: act in] confer with the Director each [of] the School in forming the Lists of examinates, [them] according to the order of merit; after [the] [and] according to the results of the examination. to be transmitted to the Sec[retary of] War. [undecipherable] The examinates, the most deserving by their progress and [and] knowledge and good conduct will be admitted to such vacant [strikethrough: higher] offices as are in the corps of Engineers or other corps vacant, agreeably to the[ir] said such regulations as may be prescribed by the President. one company of Geographer Engineers