Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-23 00:00:00

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RESERVE FORCE OF ROYAL NAVAL
VOLUNTEERS.
-ITER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT having, ,with
the sanction of Parliament, determined on esta-
blishing a RESERVE VOLUNTEER FORCE of
SEAMEN trained to the Use of Arms,
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE,
That any Seaman possessing the following qualifications
may be inrolled as a Royal Naval Volunteer in the
Reserve Force, and will thereupon be entitled to the
advantages and be subject to the obligations mentioned
below :
QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE RESERVE.
1. A Volunteer must be a British subject.
2. He must be free from infirmity.
3. He must nothe over thirty-five years of age.
4. He must within the ten years previous to his
joining the Reserve have been five years at sea, one
year of that time as an A.B.
ADVANTAGES OP THE RESERVE.
1. A Volunteer will at once receive an annual pay-
ment or retainer of 16, payable quarterly.
2. He will, if he fulfils his obligations and is in the
Reserve the requisite time, receive a pension of not less
than £l2 a year whenever he becomes incapacitated
from earning a livelihood, or at sixty years of age if Rot
previously incapacitated.
3. He may elect either to take the whole pension
himself, or to take a smaller pension for himself during
his life, and to allow his wife a pension after his death,
for the remainder of her life.
4. He will not, on account of belonging to the
Reserve, forfeit any interest in any Friendly or Benefit
Society.
5. His travelling expenses to and from the place of
drill will, when nenessary, be provided.
6. He will, during drill, receive, in addition to the
retaining fee, the same pay, victualling, and allowances
as a seaman of the fleet.
7. He will, if called out on actual service, receive the
same pay, allowances, and victuals, and have the same
prospect of promotion and prize money, as a continuous
service seaman of the fleet, and he will ou joining
receive the same clothing, bedding, and mess traps.
8. He will, if wounded or injured in actual service,
receive the same pension as a seaman in the Navy of
the same rating.
9. He will be eligible to the Coast Guard Service and
Greenwich Hospital.
10. He may quit the reserve, if not at the time called
out for actual service, at the end of every five years ; he
may also quit it, when not called out, on paying back
the retainers he has received; or, without payment, if
he passes an examination as a master or mate,, and ob-
tains bond fide employment as master or mate. •
OBLIGATIONS OF THE RESERVE.
1. A Volunteer must attend drill for twenty-eight
days each year ; he may do so, so far as the convenience
of the public service will permit, at a time and place
convenient to himself; but he cannot, in any case, take
less than seven days' drill at any one time.
2. He must not, without special permission, proceed
on a voyage that will occupy more than six months.
3. He must appear before some shipping master once
in every six months, unless he has leave to be abroad
longer, and he must report every change of residence
and employment.
4. In order to earn a pension, he must continue in
the reserve as long as he is physically competent to
serve, and he must also have been in the force ifteen
years if engaged above thirty, or twenty years if engaged
under thirty. In reckoning this time, actual service in
the fleet will count double.
5. Volunteers may be called upon for actual service
in the navy by. Royal Proclamation. It is intended to
exercise this power only when an emergency requires a
sudden increase in the naval force of the country.
6. A Volunteer may, in the first instance, be called
out for three years. If there is then actual war, and he
is then serving in one of her Majesty's ships, he may be
respired to serve for two years longer ; but for the ad-
ditional two years he will receive 2d. a day additional
Pay
7. Volunteers when on drill or actual service .will be
subject to naval discipline.
8. A Volunteer who fails to fulfil the obligations of
the Reserve, will.forfsit his claim to retainer and pension,
may be if
fracomtualthsee nrvaivyce:
The Inrolment will. commence on. Ist January, 1860.
Full information and detailed conditions may be •
obtained on application• to the Shipping Master at any
Port in the United Kingdom, or to the Olken of Cu-
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