ment of artillery; they are then eligible if not more than twenty-five years of age; and they must procure similar certificates and vouchers to those prescribed for cadets entering the seminary. "No person who has been dismissed the army or navy, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, or who has been obliged to retire from any public institution for immoral or ungentlemanly conduct, will be appointed a cadet direct for India. 66 'No person will be appointed a cadet direct for India, without producing to the Military Committee a certificate, signed by two practising surgeons, that he has no mental or bodily defect whatever to disqualify him for military service. "N. B. Candidates for military appointments whose age may exceed twentytwo years are not eligible for the Company's service in consequence of their having held a commission for twelve months and upwards in the Guernsey Militia, or in other corps similarly circumstanced, granted after the 3rd April, 1844, the date of the Court's resolution to this effect. CADETS AND ASSISTANT SURGEONS. "At a Court of Directors, held on Friday, the 27th of February, 1818:Resolved, That cadets and assistant-surgeons be in future ranked according to the seniority of the Directors nominating them, from the date of sailing of the several ships from Gravesend, by Lloyd's List, and that those who may embark at any of the out-ports be likewise ranked upon the same principle from the date of the ship's departure from such out-ports by Lloyd's List. "At a Court of Directors, held on the 21st of May, 1828:-Resolved, That all the cavalry and infantry cadets, and assistant-surgeons, who shall fail to apply at the Cadet Department for their orders within three months from the date of their being passed and sworn before the Committee, or shall not actually proceed under such orders, be considered as having forfeited their appointments unless special circumstances shall justify the Court's departure from this regulation. By a resolution of the Court, of the 4th December, 1833, all direct cadets appointed or sworn in between the 10th March and 10th June, or between 10th September and 10th December (or the days which may be fixed on for the public examination of the seminary cadets), do rank after the seminary cadets who may pass their said examinations, provided the latter sail for their respective destinations within three months after passing said examinations. OFFICERS RETIRING FROM SERVICE. Regulations respecting Military and other Officers retiring from the Company's Service. "Officers who have served less than three years in India, and have lost their health there, are entitled to an allowance from Lord Clive's fund, if the Court of Directors shall adjudge them to be proper objects of that bounty, to the extent of : "If a second lieutenant, cornet, or ensign, 2s. a-day, or 36l. 10s. a-year; if a lieutenant, 2s. 6d. a-day, or 45l. 12s. 6d. a-year; provided they are not possessed of, or entitled to, real or personal property, to the extent of, if an ensign, 750l., if a lieutenant, 1000l. "Officers who are compelled to quit the service by wounds received in action, or by ill-health contracted on duty after three years' service in India, are permitted to retire on the half-pay of their rank, viz.: "If a second lieutenant, cornet, or ensign, 3s. a-day, or 547. 15s. per annum ; if a lieutenant, 4s. a-day, or 731. per annum. "A subaltern officer, or assistant-surgeon, having served six years in India, is permitted to retire on the half-pay of ensign, if his constitution should be so impaired as to prevent the possibility of his continuing in India. "A lieutenant, having served thirteen, or a second lieutenant, cornet, or ensign, nine years in India (including three years for a furlough), may retire on the half-pay of his rank, in case his health shall not permit him to serve in India. 66 Regimental captains, majors, and lieutenant-colonels, who have not served sufficiently long in India to entitle them to retire on full-pay, and whose ill state of health renders it impossible for them to continue to serve in India, are allowed to retire from the service on the half-pay of their respective ranks, viz.:'Captains, 7s. a-day, or 1277. 15s. per annum; major, 9s. 6d. a-day, or 1737. 7s. 6d. per annum; lieutenant-colonel, 11s. a-day, or 2007. 15s. per annum. 66 "All officers who have actually served twenty-two years in India, or twentyfive years, including three years for a furlough, are allowed to retire on the full pay of their respective ranks. "Officers are also allowed to retire on the following pensions without reference to the rank they may have attained, if they have served to the undermentioned periods, viz.: "After twenty-three years' service in India, including three years for a furlough, on the full pay of captain, viz., 1917. 12s. 6d. per annum; after twenty-seven years' service in India, including three years for a furlough, on the full pay of major, 2921. per annum; after thirty-one years' service in India, including three years' for a furlough, on the full pay of lieutenant-colonel, 3651. per annum; after thirty-five years' service in India, including three years for a furlough, on the full pay of colonel, 4561. 5s. per annum. "Members of the Medical Board, who have been in that station not less than two years, and not less than twenty years in India, including three years for one furlough, are permitted to retire from the service, and allowed 500l. per annum, or, in the event of ill-health, they may retire on that pension, after any period of service as member of the Medical Board. If they have served five years, or are obliged after three years' service in that station to retire from illhealth, they are allowed 700l. per annum. "Superintending surgeons, who have been in that station not less than two years, and whose period of service has been not less than twenty years, including three years for one furlough, are permitted to retire from the service and allowed 300l. per annum; or in the event of ill-health, they may retire on that pension after any period of service as superintending surgeon. If they have served five years, or are obliged after three years' service in that station to retire from ill-health, they are allowed 365l. per annum. Surgeons after 20 years' service, 3 years' furlough £191 a-year. 250 do. "The present regulations by which superintending surgeons are entitled as such to retiring pensions of 300l. and 3657. a-year, and members of the Medical Board, to pensions of 500l. and 700l. a-year, according to period of service in those ranks respectively, will cease to be the rule of the service for medical offi cers after the date of the introduction of the new arrangement; but individuals then in the service, and who may be appointed to offices of superintending surgeon and member of the Board within ten years from that date, will be allowed the option of retiring upon pensions upon the old scale of length of service in those ranks, instead of the new scale of length of service in India. "When officers on furlough retire upon the pay or half-pay of their rank, they are only entitled to claim the benefit of the rank held by them at the expiration of one year from the date of their landing in the United Kingdom. "A veterinary surgeon is allowed to retire after six years' service in India, provided his health shall not permit him to serve in India, on 4s. 6d. a-day; after ten years' service in India, provided his health shall not permit him to serve in India, 5s. 6d. a-day. After 20 years' service, 3 years' furlough included, 7s. a day. 25 do. 30 do. do. 8s. do. 12s. do. "A commissary or deputy commissary of ordnance, not being a commissioned officer, is allowed to retire on full pay if he has served twenty-seven years in India, of which twelve must have been in the ordnance department; twentyfive years, fourteen of which in that department; or twenty-two years, seventeen years of which in the ordnance department. 66 "A conductor of stores is allowed to retire on 60% per annum after twentyfive years' actual service in India. "Officers retiring from the service will be considered to have retired from the date of their application for leave to retire; or from the expiration of two years and a half from their quitting India, whichever shall happen first. FURLOUGH REGULATIONS. Military. "Officers (of whatever rank) must be ten years in India before they can be entitled (except in case of certified sickness, and as hereafter specified) to their rotation to be absent on furlough, and the same rule is applicable to assistantsurgeons and veterinary-surgeons. The furlough to be granted by the Commander-in-Chief at each Presidency, with the approbation of the respective governments. "Officers who have not served ten years in India, but whose presence in England is required by urgent private affairs, may be allowed a furlough for one year without pay. "A conductor of stores is allowed furlough pay only in case of coming home from sickness. "Officers coming to England on furlough are required immediately to report their arrival by letter to the secretary, stating the name of the ship in which they came, and their address, forwarding at the same time the certificates they received in India. "The period of furlough is three years, reckoning from its date to the day of the return of the officer to his Presidency. "Officers are required to join the establishment to which they belong at the expiration of the three years' furlough, unless they shall have obtained an extension of leave from the court, six months before the expiration of that period. No furlough will be extended, except in cases of sickness, certified in the manner hereafter mentioned; or in cases in which it shall be proved to the court that a further residence in Europe is indispensably necessary. "All officers finding it necessary to solicit a further leave of absence on ac count of sickness, must, if resident in London or its vicinity, appear before the Company's examining physician, Dr. John Scott, 13, Stratton-street, who will report to the Court of Directors his opinion on the state of such officer's health. And if resident in the country in any part of the United Kingdom, they must transmit, with letter of application for such leave, a certificate according to the following form, signed by at least two gentlemen, eminent in the medical profession, viz: "I hereby certify, that I have carefully examined [state the nature of the case, as well as the name of the party], and I declare, upon my honour, that, according to the best of my judgment and belief, is at present unfit for military duty, and that it is absolutely necessary, for the recovery of his health, that he should remain at least longer in this country.' "Also previously to such extension of furlough being granted, such further proof shall be adduced by personal examination, or by such other evidence as shall be deemed satisfactory. "Officers abroad in any part of Europe, applying to remain a further time from their duty on account of sickness, are to furnish a certificate of two eminent physicians, in the above form, with the attestation of a magistate, that the persons who signed the certificate are physicians. "Officers having obtained an extension of furlough to a given period, must at its expiration apply for permission, either to return to their duty or to reside a further time in England. "In every case in which an officer has had his furlough extended beyond the prescribed period on the ground of his health not being sufficiently restored, and shall apply for permission to return to his duty, he shall produce a certificate from the examining physician that his health is completely re-established, and that there is every probability of his being able to perform the active duties of his profession in India. "No officer who has failed to obtain an extension of furlough will be considered eligible to return to the service after five years' absence, under the act of 33 Geo. III. cap. 52, sect. 70. 66 Every officer upon leaving India will receive a printed copy of the general order on this subject, published agreeably to the court's instruction, and the plea of ignorance of the regulations will not be admitted as any justification of the breach of them; officers, therefore, who shall come home on furlough, and who shall not in due time apply, so as to effect their return to the Presidency to which they belong within the period of three years from the commencement of their furlough, will subject themselves to the loss of the service, unless they shall be permitted by the court to remain a further time in Europe. "No officer on furlough can receive pay for more than two years and a half from the period of his quitting India until he returns, excepting colonels of regiments, and those of the rank of lieutenant-colonel regimentally, when promoted to that of major-general; the latter are then allowed to draw the pay of their brevet rank beyond the above period. OFFICERS RETURNING TO INDIA. Regulations as to the Charge of Recruits. "Whenever a detachment of Company's recruits, to the extent of thirty men, shall be embarked on any one ship, they be placed in charge of the senior Company's officer, not exceeding the rank of a field-officer, who shall have obtained permission to return to his duty on the ship, within at least seven days of the period fixed for embarkation :—that the officer proceed with the men from the depôt-that, as a remuneration for this service, he be granted the passagemoney of his rank, payable to the commander of the ship. LORD CLIVE'S FUND. Regulations for the Admission of Pensioners. "Every petitioning officer and soldier must produce a certificate from his commanding officer of his being an invalid, and rendered incapable of further service in India, together with an approbation of such certificate by the Governor and Council of the Presidency where he shall have served. "Every commissioned officer must previously make oath before the Governor and Council, viz., a colonel, that he is not possessed of, or entitled to, real and personal property to the value of 4000l.; a lieutenant-colonel, 3000l.; a major, 2500l.; a captain, 20007.; a lieutenant, 1000l.; an ensign, 750l Officers' widows must produce proof, on affidavit, that their husbands did not die possessed of property as above. "Petitioners residing in England may be admitted if the Court shall adjudge them to be proper objects. "All commissioned, staff, or warrant officers, to have half the ordinary pay they enjoyed whilst in service, viz. :— Per day. Per ann. 6 10 0 7 6 45 12 36 10 36 10 Their widows one-half the above, to continue during their widowhood. "Serjeants of artillery to have ninepence per day, and those that have lost a limb one shilling per day. Gunners of the artillery sixpence per day, and those that have lost a limb ninepence per day. "All other non-commissioned officers and bombarders to have fourpence three farthings per day. "Officers and privates to be entitled from the period of their landing in England. "Pensioners neglecting to claim the pension for three half-years will be considered as dead; and no arrears for a longer period than two years back from the date of application for admission or re-admission, as the case may be, will be allowed either to claimants or to pensioners after admission." |