CADETS appointed to ENGINEER CORPS, Doing duty as temporary Ensigns at the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham, under the command of Colonel Sir T. M. F. Smith, K.H., of the Royal Engineers.

J. J. Hyde

W. S. Oliphant

R. A. Roberts

G. Chapman

H. W. Gulliver

C. Pollard

CHAPLAINS.

Regulations for their Admission into Company's Service.

Candidates for appointments as Assistant Chaplains must have been two years in Orders, and must not exceed forty years of age; and at the time of appointment are required to produce their letters of Orders, Deacon and Priest, as well as testimonial, signed by three beneficed clergymen, and a medical certificate; the appointments are made subject to the approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London.

Chaplains are required to enter into covenant, and to give a bond for £500 jointly with two sureties for the due fulfilment of the same.

Under the Deed of Covenant, Chaplains are required to subscribe to the Military Fund at the Presidency to which they may be attached.

Chaplains must proceed to their destination within Six Months from the Date of the Court's Resolution by which they were nominated; and in failure thereof, without leave obtained from the Court, their appointments will lapse.

ASSISTANT SURGEONS.

Regulations for their Admission into Company's Service.

AGE. The assistant surgeon must not be under twenty-two years, in proof of which he must produce an extract from the register of the parish in which he was born, or his own declaration pursuant to the act of the 5th and 6th Gulielmi IV., cap. 62, and other certificates, agreeably to forms to be obtained in the office for cadets and assistant surgeons.

QUALIFICATION IN SURGERY. The assistant surgeon, upon receiving a nomination, will be furnished with a letter to the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, to be examined in Surgery, and their certificate will be deemed a satisfactory testimonial of his qualification: but should the assistaut surgeon be previously in possession of a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons of London, or of the Colleges of Surgeons of Dublin or Edinburgh, or of the College and University of Glasgow, or of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glas. gow, either of them will be deemed satisfactory as to his knowledge of Surgery, without any further examination. He is also required to produce a certificate from the Cupper of a Public Hospital in London, of having acquired and being capable of practising, with proper dexterity, the art of cupping.

QUALIFICATION IN PHYSIC. The assistant surgeon will also be required to pass an examination by the Company's examining

physician in the practice of physic, in which examination will be included as much anatomy and physiology as is necessary for understanding the causes and treatment of internal diseases, as well as the art of prescribing and compounding medicines, and Dr. Scott will then require him to produce satisfactory proof of his having attended at least two courses of lectures on the practice of physic, and above all, that he should produce a certificate of having attended diligently the practice of the physicians at some general Hospital in London for six months; or at some general Hospital in the country (within the United Kingdom) for six months, provided such provincial Hospital contain at least, on an average, one hundred in-Patients, and have attached to it a regular establishment of physicians as well as surgeons. No attendance on the practice of a physician at any Dispensary will be admitted.

The assistant surgeon is also required, as a condition to his appointment, to subscribe to the military or medical retiring fund at his respective presidency, and also to the military orphan society if appointed to Bengal.

The assistant surgeon is required, by resolution of Court of the 21st of May 1828, to apply at the Cadet-office, and actually proceed within three months from the date of being passed and sworn before the Military Committee; he will then be furnished with an order to obtain the certificate of his appointment, signed by the Secretary, for which he will pay a fee of £5 in the Secretary's Office.

CAVALRY or INFANTRY CADETS.

Cadets nominated for either of the above corps must be 16 years of age, and under 22, unless they have held a commission in her Majesty's service for one year, or in the militia or fencibles when embodied and have been called into actual service, or from the company of cadets in the royal regiment of artillery, they are then eligible if not more than 25 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.

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 22 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 Feb. 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 Graves

end, 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 21st 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 Court of the 4th Dec. 1833, all direct Cadets appointed or sworn in between the 10th March and 10th June, or between 10th Sept. and 10th Dec. (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.

CIVIL AND MILITARY SERVANTS. Abstract of Act 33 Gen. 111. cap. 52, sec. 70, precluding the Return to their Duty of Civil and Military Servants after an Absence of Five Years.

And be it further enacted, that no person who shall have held any civil or military station whatever, in India, in the service of the said United Company, being under the rank or degree of a member of council or commander-in-chief of the forces, and who, having departed from India by leave of the Governor-general in council, or Governor in council, shall not return to India within the space of five years next after such departure, shall be entitled to any rank or restoration of office, or be capable of again serving in India, either in the European or native corps of troops, or in the civil line of the Company's service; unless, in the case of any civil servant of the Company, it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the Court of Directors, that such absence was occasioned by sickness or infirmity, or unless such person be permitted to return with his rank to India, by a vote or resolution passed by way of ballot, by three parts in four of the proprietors assembled in general court, specially convened for that purpose, whereof eight days' previous notice of the time and purpose of such meeting shall be given in the London Gazette, or unless, in the case of any military officer, it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the said Court of Directors and the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, that such absence was occasioned by sickness or infirmity, or some inevitable accident. Abstract of Act 53 Geo. Ill. cap. 155, sec. 84.

Whereas inconvenience to the Military Service of the East India Company has been found to arise in certain cases from the provisions of the Act 33 Geo. III. cap. 52, sec. 70,-" Be it therefore enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the said Court of Directors, with the approbation of the said Board of Commissioners, to permit any military officer being of the rank of a general officer, or colonel commanding a regiment, or being a lieutenant

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colonel commandant of a regiment, who, having departed from India with such leave as aforesaid, shall not have returned to India within five years from the time of such departure, to have his rank and to be capable of again serving in India, although such absence may not have been occasioned by sickness or infirmity, or any inevitable accident; any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding."

AT A COURT OF DIRECTORS,

Held on Wednesday, the 9th August, 1809;

Resolved, That any person who shall, in future, be nominated to a situation, either civil or military, in the service of the Company, and who shall have obtained such nomination in consequence of purchase, or agreement to purchase, or of any corrupt pretence whatever, either direct or indirect, by himself or by any other person, with or without his privity, shall be rejected from the service of the Company, and ordered back to England, if he shall have proceeded to India before a discovery of such corrupt practice be made and if such situation shall have been so corruptly procured by himself, or with his privity, he shall be rendered incapable of holding that, or any other situation whatever, in the said service. Provided always, that if a fair disclosure of any corrupt transaction or practice, of the nature before described, wherein any Director has been concerned, shall be voluntarily made by the party or parties engaged in the same with such Director, the appointment thereby procured shall be confirmed by the Court.

CIVIL SERVANTS.

Regulations for the Grant of Absentee Allowance to Civil Servants when in Europe.

That after an actual residence in India in the civil service of ten years or upwards, a covenanted civil servant of the Company, upon either of the establishments of Bengal, Madras, or Bombay, shall be entitled, whether on account of ill-health or from any other cause, and without reference to his private fortune, to come once to Europe, on leave for three years, and to receive for that period from the Company's cash an allowance of £500 per annum, provided that in no case shall a greater number of servants come home under this regulation, annually, than seventeen from Bengal, nine from Madras, and six from Bombay; nor shall a larger number of servants who may have come home under this regulation be absent in the whole at one time than fifty-one from Bengal, twenty-seven from Madras, and eighteen from Bombay, and that the preference shall be given first to servants producing medical certificates upon oath, that a visit to Europe is indispensably necessary for the restoration of health; and then to servants in their order of seniority, according to the rank assigned to them by the Court of Directors on the gradation list of the service.

That in cases of civil servants compelled by illness, certified upon oath, to come to Europe previous to their completion of an actual residence in the civil service of ten years, such covenanted servants shall each be presented with the sum of 2,000 sicca rupees as passage money, and shall be entitled, for a period not exceeding three years, to an allowance from the Company's cash of £250 per annum; but that servants having received this indulgence, shall not, in the event of their again coming to Europe, after having completed a residence of ten years or upwards, be entitled to any allowance under the first regulation, except their return be again occasioned by illness, to be in like manner certified upon oath, and then only to the difference between what they have before drawn in the shape of absentee allowance, exclusive of passage money, and that of £500 per annum for three years.

That if the absence of a civil servant coming to Europe upon private affairs (previous to the completion of a residence of ten years) shall exceed one year, the excess of absence shall be deducted from the period during which the furlough allowance when it is granted to him would otherwise be enjoyed.

That servants coming in the first instance to the Cape of Good Hope for the benefit of their health, and being compelled from the same cause to come from thence to Europe without previously returning to India, shall be considered as entitled to the benefit of the foregoing regulations.

That in all cases, as well in those of servants coming in the first instance to the Cape, as well as of those coming direct from India, the said allowances be considered as commencing from the date of leaving India, and terminating at the expiration of three years from that date, or at the time of arrival in India, whichever may first happen.

That the same be paid quarterly in Europe; that, on no account or plea whatsoever, the allowances in question be extended beyond the period of three years; and

That any servant being in the receipt of absentee allowance from a civil fund, shall not be entitled to receive, during the same period of absence, the allowances prescribed by these regulations beyond such amount as may bring the total of his annual receipts from both sources to the sum hereby limited.

Assay Masters and Deputy Assay Masters, compelled by illhealth, duly certified, to come to Europe, shall be permitted to receive the furlough allowance of Surgeon, £191 12s. 6d., Assistant Surgeon, £118 12s. 6d. respectively for the prescribed period of three years, when it is to cease, whether they may be allowed to resume office in India or not.

Assay Masters and Deputy Assay Masters who are permitted to retire after twenty years' service, including three years for a furlough, the former upon £300 per annum, the latter upon £191 12s. 6d. per annum, and if compelled by ill-health, duly certified, to quit India at an earlier period, the retiring allowance after ten years' service for an Assay Master £200 per annum, and Deputy Assay Master, £150 per annum.