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30th April, 1823, all Cadets appointed to the Company's service, at Fort St. George and Bombay, are required to become subscribers to the Military Fund at their respective Presidencies.

MEMORANDA.

The gentlemen Cadets educated at the Military Seminary are eligible for the corps of engineers, artillery, and infantry. Admission to the two first of these branches, viz. the engineers and artillery, is only to be obtained by these Cadets, none others being eligible. Those who are most distinguished are selected for the engineers, according to the vacancies in that branch. Those immediately following in order of succession, are promoted to the corps of horse and foot artillery.

Those Cadets for whom there is no room in the engineers, but who are reported to have attained to a high degree of qualification, receive honorary certificates, and their names are announced to the governments in India, and published in General Orders to the army, as meriting particular notice. They have the privilege of choosing the Presidency in India to which they shall be stationed. The Cadets not appointed to the engineers or artillery, are, when reported qualified, posted to the infantry, and rank together according to the rank which they obtained at the Seminary.

The gentlemen Cadets may pass through the Seminary as rapidly as their attainments and qualifications will enable them to pass after a year's residence, provided that they are of the age of sixteen years on or before the day of their final examination. Their stay at the Institution is limited to

four terms.

The Cadets educated at this Institution take rank in the army above all other Cadets who are appointed from the commencement of three months previously to the date of the Seminary Cadets being appointed qualified; and all the time passed by them at the Institution, after they attain the age of sixteen, counts as so much time passed in India, in calculating their period of service for retiring pensions on full pay.

ADDISCOMBE.

CADETS' CERTIFICATES.

THE following forms are printed expressly for the purpose of the blanks being properly filled up and signed, previously to the Cadet being nominated.

FIRST.

The blanks in this letter to be filled up and signed by the person who procures the nomination from the Director for the party to be appointed a Cadet.

Gentlemen,-I do hereby declare, upon my honour, that I received the nomination of a Cadet for the Military Seminary from (A.)— Esq.,

gratuitously and expressly for Mr. (B.)

and to whom I have given it gratuitously, being well acquainted with his character, family, and connexions.

I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient Servant,

To the Honourable Court of Directors

of the East-India Company.

The

person recommending

to sign at full length, and

to insert his address.

(A.) Insert the Director's name from whom the appointment is procured. (B.) Insert the Christian and surname of the person to be appointed a Cadet.

SECOND.

Extract from the Register Book*

of the Parish of

in the County of

If a Cadet produces a false certificate, or the dates are
found to have been altered for the purpose of making
him appear to be of a proper age, he is rendered ineli-
gible to hold any situation in the Company's service.

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Resident Clergyman's or
Sessions' Clerk's Signature}

Churchwardens' or
Elders' Signatures

N. B. The above Extract must be signed by the resident clergyman, and countersigned by the churchwardens; or, if in Scotland, by the sessions' clerk and two elders.

If there is no Register of Birth or Baptism to be found, the Cadet himself must then make a declaration of that circumstance, and of the date of his birth, the printed forms of which may be had in the Cadet Office, for the purpose of being filled up by him previous to his appearing before a magistrate for that purpose.

To be signed by two practising surgeons.

The blanks in this certificate must be filled up to correspond with the

certificate of birth.

THIRD.

The Parent's or Guardian's Certificate.

I do hereby certify, that the foregoing extract from the Register of Births and Baptisms of the Parish of

of

of the

of my

in the County contains the date

who is the bearer of this, and nominated a Cadet on the Military Seminary Establishment, by

and I do further declare, that I received the said appointment for my.

through the gratuitous solicitation of.

and that no money or other valuable consideration has been or is to be paid, either directly or indirectly, for the same; and that I will not pay, or cause to be paid, either now or hereafter, by myself, by my.

or by the hands of any other person, any pecuniary
or valuab'e consideration whatsoever, to any person
or persons who have interested themselves in pro-
curing the said nomination for my

from the Director above-mentioned; and I do de-
clare I am fully aware, that if it should be discovered
hereafter that the said appointment has been obtained
by purchase, or by any other unlawful means, he will be
subject to dismission from the East-India Company's
Service, and rendered ineligible to hold any situation
whatever in the Company's service again.
Witness my hand, this.
in the year of our Lord.

day of

The parent, or nearest of kin alive,
or guardian, to sign at full length

FOURTH.

Medical Certificate.

I have this day carefully examined

and certify that his eye-sight and hearing are perfect; that he is without deformity, and has the perfect use of all his limbs; that he has no appearance of any constitutional disposition or tendency to disease; and that he does not appear to have any mental or bodily defect whatever to disqualify him for military service.

To be signed by the

parent or guardian.

This is to certify, that my.

has had the small-pox, or has been vaccinated.

The candidate will likewise be required to produce a certificate from the master under whom he last studied, of his good conduct and attainments.

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PREPARATORY INSTRUCTIONS

persons who may be nominated direct Cadets, in the Service of the Honourable East India Company.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS.

Dec. 7, 1808.-RESOLVED, That the age of Fifteen, at which young men have hitherto been eligible for appointments as Cadets for the infantry and cavalry in the Company's Service in India, is too early an age, and therefore in future, the age of Sixteen years be the earliest period at which Cadets for those corps may be appointed.

Aug. 9, 1809.-RESOLVED, That any person who shall in future be nominated to a situation, either civil or military, in the Service of this Company, and who shall have obtained such nomination in consequence of purchase or agreement to purchase, or of any corrupt practice whatever, either direct or indirect, by himself or 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.

May 21, 1828.-RESOLVED BY THE BALLOT, That it be a standing order of the Court in future, that all cavalry and

infantry Cadets and Assistant-Surgeons, who shall fail to apply at the Cadet-office for their orders for embarkation, 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.

June 19, 1833.-RESOLVED, That no person who has been dismissed or obliged to retire from the Army or Navy, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, or from any other public institution, on account of immoral or ungentlemanly conduct, be in future appointed a Cadet direct for India.

Dec. 4, 1833.-RESOLVED, That all direct Cadets appointed or sworn in before the Committee for passing Military appointments, between the 10th March and 10th of June, or between the 10th September and 10th December (or the days which may be fixed on for the public examination of the Seminary Čadets), 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 their said examinations.

By Resolutions of the Court of Directors, dated on the 14th March, 1786; 8th April, 1807; 30th August, 1826; and 8th January, 1836; all Cadets appointed to the Company's Service in Bengal, are required to become subscribers to the Military Orphan Society, and to the Military Widow's Fund, at that presidency.

By a Resolution of the Court of Directors, dated on the 30th April, 1823, all Cadets appointed to the Company's Service at Fort St. George and Bombay, are required to become subscribers to the Military Fund at their presidencies.

January 11, 1837.-RESOLVED, That no person be in future appointed a Cadet direct for India without the production of a certificate, signed by two practising Surgeons, that he has no mental or bodily defect whatever, to disqualify him for Military Service.

N.B. All Cadets who may be appointed between the dates of public examination at Addiscombe and the 10th of March or 10th September, will be allowed to rank from the date of their sailing, provided this takes place within three months after their being passed and sworn.

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