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REGULATIONS

RESPECTING

MILITARY AND OTHER OFFICERS RETIRING FROM THE

COMPANY'S SERVICE.

EVERY officer after twenty-five years' service in India, three years for one furlough being included, is allowed to retire with the pay of the rank to which he has attained within twelve months of his arrival in Europe; but such pay is to be the same only as that allowed to officers of infantry.

A member of the Medical Board, who has been in that station not less than two years, and not less than twenty years in India, including three years for one furlough, is permitted to retire from the service, and allowed £500 per annum.

A surgeon of a general hospital, or superintending surgeon, who has 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, as above, is permitted to retire from the service, and allowed £300 per annum.

All other surgeons and assistant-surgeons attached to the military, are permitted to retire from the service on the pay of their rank after having served in India not less than twenty years, including three years for one furlough.

A superintending surgeon on the Prince of Wales' Island establishment, who has been in that station not less than two years, and not less than twenty years in the service, including three years for one furlough, is allowed a pension of £300 per annum. In the case of his not having held that office for two years, his retiring allowance is limited to ten shillings a-day.

The senior assistant surgeon, after the said period of service, is allowed to retire on ten shillings a-day.

All other assistant surgeons, after the said period of service, are allowed to retire on five shillings a-day.

In the event of any of the Prince of Wales' Island medical servants being compelled by ill health (duly certified) to retire previous to their having served twenty years, they are granted, in the case of the superintending surgeon and senior assistant surgeon, a retiring allowance of five shillings a-day; and in all other cases, a retiring allowance of two shillings and sixpence a-day. If intermediately be

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tween the completion of six and ten years, they are granted a retiring allowance of two shillings a-day.

A surgeon having served twenty years on the Company's establishment in China, including three years for one furlough, is allowed to retire on a pension of £200 per annum.

An assistant surgeon, after the said period of service, who shall not have attained the station of head surgeon, is allowed to retire on a pension of £150 per annum.

A chaplain, after eighteen years' service in India (ten of which at a military station), including three years for one furlough, is allowed to retire with the pay of major.

A chaplain, after eighteen years' service on the Company's establishment in China, including three years' absence on furlough, is allowed to retire on a pension of £200 per annum,

A chaplain, having served ten years in India or China, whose constitution will not admit of his continuing in the service, may retire on the half-pay of major; after seven years, on the half-pay of captain.

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; twenty-five years, fourteen of which in that department; or twenty-two years, seventeen years of which in the ordnance department.

A conductor of stores is allowed to retire on £60 per annum after twenty five years' actual service in India.

Every lieutenant-colonel, major, or captain, is allowed to retire with the half-pay of the rank to which he has attained, in case his health shall not permit him to serve in India; but he can only be allowed the pay of the rank he held at the expiration of twelve months from his arrival in Europe.

A lieutenant having served thirteen, or an ensign nine years in India, including three years for a furlough, may retire on the halfpay of his rank, in case his health shall not permit him to serve in India.

A subaltern officer, or military 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.

Every officer returning on furlough, and wishing to retire from the service, must make a declaration to that effect, within twelve months after his arrival in England; and in case of his neglecting so to do, he

must, at the expiration of his furlough, either return to India, or be held to have relinquished the service, and not be entitled to retire on pay, unless he has continued to serve in India, from his first arrival, for the space of twenty-two years, without having a furlough; in that case, he is allowed two years before he shall be called upon to signify his intention of retiring; but he can only be allowed the pay of the rank he held at the expiration of twelve months from his arrival in Europe.

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 from the date of their landing in England, whichever shall happen first.

BOMBAY MARINE.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING RETIREMENT AND FURLOUGH.

RETIREMENT.

Every officer of the marine who has actually served twenty-two years or upwards in India, is permitted to retire from the service with the following pay.

The master-attendant and the commodore, after having

served five years in either of those capacities......... £450

A captain of the first class........

A captain of the second class........

360

270

180

A first lieutenant.........

Every officer retiring from ill health after ten years' service, and before they have completed that of twenty-two years, is granted onehalf of the retiring allowance of his rank, as specified above.

FURLOUGH.

A certain proportion of the marine officers (to be determined by the government, with a due regard to the exigencies of the service) are allowed to come home on furlough for three years, with the pay only of their rank.

No officer under the rank of captain who has not actually served ten years in the marine, can be permitted to come home on furlough, unless in cases of ill health, under the like certificates as required from military officers.

If the commodore is permitted to come home on furlough, he is to be allowed the pay of a captain only. Half the remainder of his allowance to be drawn by the senior captain in the service, who is to act as commodore during his absence, in addition to the pay of his rank as senior captain.

The regulations for drawing pay on furlough and retirement by the marine officers are, as far as circumstances will admit, the same as those for the military officers.