By the authority of the warrant alluded to, the establishment of each company was remodelled, the ranks of Sub-Lieutenant and second corporal were created, and the total of all ranks per company increased from 100 to 126. Under the previous system of detaching men, the companies were mutilated, disordered and reduced; but under this enlarged organization, it was considered they would be more accessible, and better able to afford such accidental assistance as might be needed, without diminishing the companies to an inconvenient strength, or without particular detriment to the station. The subjoined detail shows the approved composition of a company at this period. 1 Sub-Lieutenant,[147] a new rank, with pay of 5_s._ a-day.[148] 1 Sergeant-major. 5 Sergeants. 5 Corporals. 10 Second Corporals,[149] a new rank, pay fixed at 1_s._ 9_d._ a-day. 30 Carpenters, including 4 top sawyers. 20 Masons, } including slaters, tiles, and plasterers. 18 Bricklayers, } 10 Smiths, 10 Miners, 4 Wheelers, 4 Collar Makers, 2 Coopers, 2 Painters, 4 Drummers. —— Total 126 ----- Footnote 147: Styled _Second_ Lieutenants in the warrant by mistake. The Sub-Lieutenants were junior to the Second Lieutenants of engineers, but held rank with Second Lieutenants of the line, according to dates of commission. This right was often questioned, but never, as long as the Sub-Lieutenants were attached to the corps, officially settled. In 1835 the position of a Sub-Lieutenant (H. B. Mackenzie), who had joined the line as paymaster being disputed, it was then settled that _Sub-Lieutenants_ were _junior_ to _Ensigns_. Footnote 148: Subsequently increased to 5_s._ 7_d._ a-day, and after seven years' service to 6_s._ 7_d._ a-day. Footnote 149: Holding comparative station with corporals of the line, according to date of promotion. ----- The total establishment of the corps, including the adjutant and sergeant-major on the staff, amounted to 1,514, exhibiting an increase above the former establishment of 439 men; and its expense for one year, exclusive of the working pay and other miscellaneous allowances, reached the sum of 45,500_l._ 17_s._ 7¼_d._ With the three companies of Maltese artificers, the corps mustered a force of 1,790 officers, non-commissioned officers, and men.