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 2d lieutenant, cornet, or ensign, two shillings a-day, or £36 10s. a-year; if a lieutenant, two shillings and sixpence a-day, or £45 12s. 6d. a-year; provided they are not possessed of, or entitled to, real or personal property, to the extent of, if an ensign, £750, if a lieutenant, £1,000.

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, three shillings a-day, or £54 15s. per annum; if a lieutenant, four shillings a-day, or £73 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 eusign, 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.

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, seven shillings a-day, or £127 15s. per annum; major, nine shillings and sixpence a-day, or £173 7s. 6d. per annum; lieutenant-colonel, eleven shillings a-day, or £200 15s. 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. £191 12s. 6d. per aunum; after twenty-seven years' service in India, including three years for a furlough, on the full pay of major, £292 per annum; after thirty-one years' service in India, including three years for a furlough, on the full pay of lieutenant-colonel, £365 per annum; after thirty-five years' service in India, including

three years for a furlough, on the full pay of colonel, £456 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 £500 per annum, or in the event of illhealth, 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 ill-health, they are allowed £700 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 £300 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 £365 per

annum.

Surgeons after 20 years' service, 3 years' furlough

included

£191 a year.

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The present regulations by which superintending surgeons are entitled as such to retiring pensions of £300 and £365 a year, and members of the Medical Board, to pensions of £500 and £700 a year, according to period of service in those ranks respectively, will cease to be the rule of the service for medical officers, after the date of the introduction of the new arrangement; but individuals then in the service, and who may be appointed to the 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, ou four shillings and sixpence a day; after ten years' service in India, provided his health shall not permit him to serve in India, five shillings and sixpence a day; After 20 years' service, 3 years' furlough included, 7s. a day.

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A chaplain (appointed previously to the 1st September 1836), after eighteen years' service in India, including three years for one furlough, is allowed to retire on the pay of lieutenant-colonel,

£365 per annum; after ten years (if compelled by ill-health to quit the service), on the half-pay of lieutenant-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 department.

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.

CIVIL.

Civil Servants coming to England under the absentee regulations, or on special leave, shall, immediately on their arrival, report themselves with their address by letter to the Secretary, forwarding at the same time the certificates which they received in India.

That in all cases of leave, civil servants be required to join the establishment to which they belong at the expiration of the term for which leave may have been granted, unless they shall have obtained an extension of it from the Court six months before the expiration of the said leave.

That extensions of leave be not in future granted except in cases of sickness, certified to the Court's satisfaction, or in cases in which it shall be proved that a further residence in Europe is indispensably necessary.

That when under any such circumstances a civil servant shall have obtained an extension of leave to a given period, he must, at the expiration thereof, apply for and obtain permission either to return to his duty or to reside a further time in Europe; failing in which, he shall be liable to be struck off the list of civil servants.

That the Act of the 33d Geo. 3, cap. 52, sec. 70, as it respects civil servants, applies only to cases of sickness or infirmity, and that no civil servant be hereafter considered eligible to return to the service after five years' absence under that enactment, who has failed to obtain, agreeably to the foregoing regulatious, an extension of leave under the circumstances referred toiu be Act.

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 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 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 chaplain (appointed previously to the 1st September 1836), after seven years' residence in India, is allowed to come home on furlough and receive the pay of major, £292 per annum. 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.

If appointed subsequently to that date, after seven years' resi dence 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 mouths 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 abseuce on account 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 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 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 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.

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.

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 conimencement 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 passage-money of his rank :-payable to the commander of the ship.