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, seven shillings a-day, or 1271. 15s. per annum ; majors, nine shillings and sixpence a-day, or 1737. 7s. 6d. per lieutenant-colonels, eleven shillings a-day, or 2007. 15s.

ann.;

per annum.

All officers who have actually served twenty-two years in India, or twenty-five 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 for 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, 3657. per annum; after thirtyfive 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 a member of the Medical Board. If they have served five years, or are obliged after three years' service in that station to retire from ill-health, they are allowed 700l. per annum.

Superintending-surgeons, who have been in that station not less than two years, and whose periods of service have 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 3657. 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.

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 on seven shillings a-day after twenty years' service, including three years for one furlough; five shillings and sixpence a-day after thirteen years' service, including three years for one furlough; and three shillings a-day after six years' service, in the two last cases, provided his health shall not permit him to continue to serve in India.

A chaplain, (appointed previously to the 1st Sept. 1836,) after eighteen years' service in India, including three years for one furlough, is allowed to retire on the pay of lieut.colonel, £365 per annum; after ten years (if compelled by ill-health to quit the service) on the half-pay of lieut.colonel, £200 15s. per annum; after seven years, on the half-pay of major, £173 7s. 6d. per annum.

If appointed subsequently to that date, according to the following scale, viz.,-after eighteen years' service, including three years for one furlough, the pay of major, viz. £292 per annum; after ten years' service (if compelled by ill-health to quit the service) on the half-pay of major, viz., £173 7s. 6d. per annum; after seven years, the half-pay of captain, viz., £127 15s. per annum.

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 depart

ment.

A conductor of stores is allowed to retire on £60 per annum, after twenty-five 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.

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 assistant-surgeons and veterinary-surgeons. The furlough

to be granted by the commander-in-chief at each presidency, with the approbation of the respective govern

ments.

Officers who have served not 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 chaplain, (appointed previously to the 1st Sept. 1836,) after seven years' residence in India, is allowed to come home on furlough, and receive the pay of major, £292 per Should he come home from sickness, prior to this period of service, he is allowed the pay of captain only, viz., £191 12s. 6d. per annum.

annum.

If appointed subsequently to that date, after seven years' residence in India, the pay of captain, viz., £191 12s. per annum; and if compelled by ill-health to come home prior to this period of service, the half-pay of captain, or £127 15s. per annum.

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 hereinafter 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 account of sickness, must, if resident in London or its vicinity, appear before the Company's examining physician, Dr. J. R. Hume, 9, Curzon-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 their 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

in this country."

longer

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 magistrate, 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.

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 33 Geo. III. cap. 52, sec. 70.

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 lieut.-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 ob tained 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 his service, he be granted the passage-money of his rank-payable to the commander of the ship.

INDIAN NAVY.

Regulations respecting Retirement and Furlough.

RETIREMENT.

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

A captain, 3601.; commander, 2907.; lieutenant, 1907.; purser, 1901.

Every officer retiring, from ill-health, after ten years' service, and before they have completed that of twenty-two years, is granted the following retiring allowance :

A captain, 2007.; commander, 1707. ; lieutenant, 1251.; second-lieutenant, 70l.; purser, 1257.

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

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 take 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 40007; a lieut.-colonel, 3000; a major,