Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-28 00:00:00

QUALIFICATIONS FOR TFIE RESERVE.

1. A Volunteer must be a .British subject.
2. He must be free from infirmity. -
3.. He must not be 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 e that time as'au A.B. •
AOI'4.NTAGES OF THE RESERVE.
1. A Volunteer will at once receive an annual pay-
ment or retainer of £6, payable quarterly.,
2. He will, if he fulfils his obligations and is.inlhe
Reserve -the requisite time, • receive a pension of Of less
than £1.2 a year whenever." he becomes incapacitated
from earning a livelihood, or. at sixty years of age if itot
proviously.incapacitated., . • .
3. He may elect either to take the whole pension
.himself, or to t.ake.a suaaller'pension fer'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.

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5. His travelling expenses to and from the place of
drill will; When necessary, be provided:
6. He willc,during, 4411, receive, in addition to the,
retaining fee, 'the same pay, victualling, and allowances.
a a seaman of the fleet.

He will, called out on actual service, receive the
same pay, allowances, and victuals, and have the same
prospect, of;-piomotion and prize moneys as a continuous
service seaman of the fleet, anl he will on jpining_:
receive the same clothing; bedding, and iness- traps.
8. He will; if N.votincled• 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 1104pital. •
10. He,may quit the reserve, if not at.the time called.,
out for actual service, at. the( end of every five years ;
may also quit it, when not called oat, 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.

OBLIOATIONS OF THE RESERVE.
1. A Volunteer must attend drill for twenty-eight
days eitehryear ; he may do so, so far as tho 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. Re must not, without 'special permission, proceed
on a voyage that will occupy more than six months.
3. He 111:13t appear before some shipping master price-
in every sit months, unless he has •leave to be abroad
longer, and he must report every change of reiidence
and employment.
4. In order to earn a pension, he mail-, continue in
the reserve as long as he is •physically competent to
serve, and he must also have been in the force fifteen
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 foice 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
required 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
- 8. A Volunteer who fails to fulfil the obligations of
the ReServe,'Wiii forfeit his claim to retail" er and pension,
and if he fails to join when. called out far actual service,
may be treated as a straggler or dweller from the navy.

The Inrolment will cam/mum on Ist January, 1860:

Full information and detailed conditions may be
obtained on application to tho Shipping Master at any
Port in tho United Xingdom, or to the Officers of Cus-
tom, iPt ti °UV:eI Islands and Isle of Man, d 2