Militia Pay. Adjutants, &c. of Militia may be employed in their Counties. Adjutant to Balance to form a Stock Purse. In Absence of Adjutant, Serjeants to be under Command of Serjeant Major. Militia when called out for Training or Exercise en titled to Pay. the Colonel or Commandant of the Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, which Leave shall not, except in case of certified Sickness, extend beyond Three Calendar Months in One Year, nor to a greater Proportion than One Third of the Non-commissioned Officers at the same Time. III. Every Adjutant and Non-commissioned Officer of the Regular Militia, when disembodied, and not called out for Training or Exercise, shall be liable to be employed within the County to which the Regiment, Battalion, or Company of the said Militia Staff belongs, under the Officers appointed to pay and superintend the Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, in such Manner as One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may determine. IV. The Adjutant of each Regiment of Militia shall have the Charge and Care, of the Arms, Accoutrements, Great Coats, Clothing, Necessaries, and other Stores thereof, under the Superintendence of the Colonel or Commandant, and shall, out of the Allowance directed by this Act to be issued and paid for defraying the contingent Expenses of such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, from Time to Time issue and pay such Sums of Money as may be necessary for the Repair of Arms, and other usual contingent Expenses, upon an Order in Writing signed by the Colonel or other Commandant, and after Payment of such Sums as aforesaid he shall, Three Times in the Year, make up Accounts of all such Money, and of the Expenditure thereof, showing the Balance remaining in his Hands, (which said Balance shall form a Stock Purse for the Use of the Regiment, Battalion, or Corps,) and shall transmit the same to the Colonel or other Commandant of such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, to be by him examined, allowed, and signed; and the said Accounts, so allowed and signed, shall be the proper Vouchers and Acquittal of such Adjutant for the Application and Disposal of such Money. V. In the occasional and unavoidable Absence of the Adjutant from the City, Town, or Place where the Disembodied Staff is quartered, or during any Vacancy in the Appointment of Adjutant, the Serjeants shall be under the Command of the Serjeant Major, or of some Serjeant who shall be appointed by the said Adjutant, with the Approbation of the Colonel or other Com manding Officer, to act as Serjeant Major during the Absence of such Adjutant; and the said Serjeant Major or acting Serjeant Major shall render the same Returns and perform such other Acts as are by Law required from the Adjutant. VI. The Officers and Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Private Men of the Regular Militia shall, for the Period or Periods during which they shall be called out for the Purpose of Exercise or Training, be entitled to the following daily Rates of Pay and Allowances: * These Rates of Pay, during Training and Exercise only, are in addition to the daily Rates of Disembodied Pay granted by Section 1. VII. Volunteers may, with the Sanction of the Secretary-atWar, when attached to Regiments of the Line to qualify themselves for the Permanent Staff, either as Serjeants or Drummers, be allowed Pay whilst so under Instruction, but while they remain so attached, they will be under the Command of the Officer commanding the Regiment of the Line equally with the Soldiers of that Volunteers attached to Regiments of Line subject to Mutiny Act. Militia Pay. Certain Officers unfit for Duty may be placed upon retired Allowance, upon making Declaration. that Regiment, and will be subject to the Provisions of the Mutiny Act. VIII. It shall be lawful for the Secretary-at-War to place any Lieutenant, Ensign, and Surgeon's Mate of the Militia of Great Britain, or Subaltern Officer and Assistant Surgeon of the Militia of Ireland, when unfit for further Duty, upon a retired Allowance equal to and instead of the Allowance granted to him on the disembodying of the Militia at the Termination of the last War; and all such Subalterns, Surgeon's Mates, and Assistant Surgeons, to entitle them to the Receipt of such retired Allowance, shall make and subscribe the following Declaration; (videlicet,) do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I in the Form of Decla- I ration. Certain Paymasters, &c. to be placed on retired Al lowance instead formerly served as a Day of to the Day of Militia ; I did not hold or enjoy any Place or Employment of Profit, Civil or Military, under Her Majesty, or in the Colonies or Possessions of Her Majesty beyond the Seas, or under any other Govern· ment, besides my Allowance of per Diem as a ' of the said Militia, except my Half Pay or Civil Pension IX. It shall be lawful for the Secretary-at-War to place any Paymaster, Surgeon, or Quartermaster, when unfit for further Duty, upon a retired Allowance equal to and instead of his reduced Allowance, which may have been granted in pursuance of reduced Al- of an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty lowance. King George the Fourth; and all such Paymasters, Surgeons, or Quartermasters, to entitle them to the Receipt of such retired Allowance, shall make and subscribe the Declaration annexed to the foregoing Section of this Act. Reduced Noncommissioned Officers, &c. not to receive Out-Pension while serving. Persons on Half Pay, &c. empowered to receive Pay, &c. during Train ing. X. And whereas certain Non-commissioned Officers and • Drummers of the Militia of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ' and Ireland have, on the Reduction of the Establishment of the Disembodied Staff, been placed on the Out-Pension, although not unfit for further Service:' No Non-commissioned Officer or Drummer so placed on Pension shall be entitled to receive the said Pension for any Period during which he shall be receiving Pay in the Militia. XI. Provided always, That any Person, being on Naval or Military Half Pay, or being entitled to any Allowance as having served in any of Her Majesty's Regular Forces or Navy or Marines, and serving in the Militia, may receive the Pay and Allowances by this Act directed to be paid to the Field Officers, Captains, Lieutenants, Ensigns, Adjutants, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Assistant Surgeons, when assembled for annual Training; and the receiving any such Pay and Allowances by any such Field Officer, Captain, Lieutenant, Ensign, Adjutant, Quartermaster, Surgeon, Surgeon's Mate, or Assistant Surgeon, shall not prevent such Person on Half Pay, or being entitled to any such Allowance, from receiving his Half Pay or such Allowance: Provided also, that such Person shall, in the Declaration to be taken for Militia Pay. for the Receipt of the Half Pay or such Allowance, declare that he has received or is entitled to such Militia Pay and Allowances, and shall specify the Militia Rank which entitles him to the same. XII. Provided always, That no Adjutant, Quartermaster, Non- Adjutants, &c. commissioned Officer, Drummer, or Private Man in the Regular Non-commisMilitia, entitled to receive any Chelsea or Kilmainham Pension sioned Officers, or Allowance on account of Service in the Regular Army, shall forfeit or lose his Right to the same by reason of his serving and receiving Pay in the Regular Militia; nor shall any Quartermaster, Subaltern Officer, Surgeon's Mate, or Assistant Surgeon forfeit or lose his Right to receive any such Chelsea or Kilmainham Pension or Allowance by reason of his receiving the Allowance by this Act granted to him when disembodied. or Privates, not to lose Right to Chelsea or Kilmainham Pensions, &c. Medicines. XIII. There shall be granted for each Regiment of Regular Allowance to Militia, when disembodied, a Sum of Money after the Rate of be made for One Guinea for every One hundred Men of each such Regiment, for the Expense of necessary Medicines for the sick Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, Fifers, and Private Men of such Regiment, during the Period or Periods of Assembly for Exercise or Training, and also an Allowance of Twopence per Week for each of the Non-commissioned Officers and their Families of each Regiment on the Disembodied Staff at Head Quarters, for the Expenses of necessary Medicines and Attendance given to the said Non-commissioned Officers and their Families while such Regiment is not called out for Training and Exercise. July 1856. XIV. In case any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of Militia shall Reduced Adhave already ceased and determined, or been reduced in its Esta- jutants to reblishment, or shall cease and determine or be reduced in its ceive 48. per Establishment during the Continuance of this Act, the Sum of Day till 31st Four Shillings per Diem shall be paid to such Person as was or shall be actually serving as Adjutant to such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps at the Time of Reduction, from the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, or from the Time such Regiment shall cease and determine or be reduced in its Establishment, (as the Case may be,) to the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in like Manner and subject to the same Restrictions and Conditions as the Allowances granted by this Act to Adjutants who shall by Age or Infirmity be rendered unfit for further Service: Provided always, Right to Half that no such reduced Adjutant shall lose any Right he may have Pay reserved. to Half Pay of the Navy, Army, Marines, or Provisional Battalion formed from the Militia, by reason of receiving such Allowance as last aforesaid, but shall be entitled to receive such Half Pay as well as such Allowance. lowance under XV. And whereas certain Adjutants and Serjeant Majors are Adjutants and 'entitled to and have received certain Allowances in consequence Serjeant Majors of having been reduced under the Provisions of an Act passed in entitled to Althe Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of the Reign of King George 39 & 40 G. 3. 'the Third, which Allowances have been continued, and as to such Adjutants augmented to Four Shillings per Diem: All such Adjutants and Serjeant Majors shall be entitled to receive and shall receive such Allowance from the Thirty-first Day of July One c. 44. Reduced Adjutants may take such Allowance with any Pay or other Allowance under 39 & 40 G. 3. c. 44. and 26 G. 3. c. 107. Proviso. Allowances to masters. Militia Pay. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five to the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. XVI. Every reduced Adjutant entitled to any Allowance granted under the said Act of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of the Reign of King George the Third, and continued by any subsequent Act or by this Act, may receive such Allowance, together with any Full Pay, Half Pay, or Allowance which was tenable together with such reduced Allowance, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for amending and reducing into One Act of Parliament the Laws relating to the Militia in that Part of Great Britain called England, or under the Provisions of the aforesaid Act of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third: Provided always, that no such reduced Adjutant shall be entitled to receive any Allowance under this Act during the Time he shall hold any Military Office of Profit under Her Majesty, other than such as aforesaid, or under any other Government, or any Civil Office or Employment under Her Majesty, or any other Government, otherwise than according to the Provisions of this Act in relation to the Allowances granted to Adjutants on account of Age or Infirmity. XVII. And whereas certain Allowances have been granted in Adjutants, Sur-pursuance of former Acts, to Adjutants, Surgeons, and Quartergeons, and masters of Regular Militia who have by Age or Infirmity been Quarterrendered unfit for further Service:' Such Allowances shall be issued and paid, during the Continuance of this Act, in like Manner and subject to the same Restrictions as the Allowances granted by this Act to Adjutants who shall by Age or Infirmity be rendered unfit for further Service: Provided always, that no Person receiving such Allowance shall by reason thereof forfeit his Right to any Half Pay to which he may be entitled. Allowances granted to Ad. jutants on Com pletion of certain Periods of Service. XVIII. The following Allowances shall be granted and paid, under the Restrictions and Limitations herein-after expressed, to Adjutants of the Militia of Great Britain and Ireland, on the Completion of the following Periods of Service in Her Majesty's Regular Forces and in the Militia, if unfit, either by Age or Infirmity, for the Performance of the Duties of their Commissions; (that is to say,) To every Adjutant who shall have completed in the Service a Fifteen Years, of which Five Years as an Adjutant of Mi- Twenty Years, of which Seven Years as an Adjutant of Militia, an Allowance of Four Shillings per Diem: Twenty-five Years, of which Ten Years as an Adjutant of Militia, an Allowance of Five Shillings per Diem : Thirty Years, of which Fifteen Years as an Adjutant of Militia, an Allowance of Six Shillings per Diem : Provided, that such Adjutants shall retain any Right they may have to Half Pay or to Out-Pension, notwithstanding the Grant of such retired Allowance as aforesaid; and all such Allowances shall be granted upon the Production to the Secretary-at-War of a Cer |
