Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

QUALIFICATIONS I,OII.TILE RESERVE,

1. .A Volunteer must be a British subject.
2. He must be free from infirmity.
3. He ninst not' he over thirty-five years of age.
4. He must within the ten years preyions to his
joining the Reserve have been five years at sea, one
year of that time as an A.B.

ADVANTAGES OF THE r,2sEnvE.
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 in the
Reserve the requisite time, receive a'pension of not less
than a year Whenever he becom6 incapacitated
from earning a livelihood, or at sixty years of age if not
previously incapacitated.
3. He may elect either to take the whole pension
himself, or to take a smaller pension fcr himself during
his life, and to allow his wife a pension-after- his death,
foi 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 andfroinAle; place of
drill will, when necessary, be proviOd: Y :f
6. Ile will, during drill, recei*tivin.Liddition-taithe-
retaining fee, the same pay,, victualling, and allowances
as a seaman 'of the fleet. •

7. He will, if called out on actual service, reaive-the
same pay, allowances, and victuals;l and have the .same
orospect-of promotion and prize money, as a continuous
service seaman of the fleet, and' he will on joining
receive the same clothing, bedding, and mess.traps.
'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'cligibie'to the Coast. Guard Service and
Greenwich. Hospital.
'10: He may quit the reserve, if not at the time called
oitt for actual service, at the end of every five years; he
may also quit it, when not :calle.d out, on paying.baek
the retainers he has received; or, without payment, if
he passes an examination as a master or mate, and ob-
tains band fide' employment as master or mate:

OBLIGATIONS OF THE nEsEnvr,,
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I. A Volunteer. must attend .drill for twenty-eig,ht.
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days each- year ; he may do so, so far as the conVenience
of, the public service will permit, at a time and. place. i
convenient to himself; but he cannot, in any • case, take 1
less than seven days' drill- at' any one time. ,
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__2-11e.must not, without special:permission, proceed
on a voyage that will occupy more than six months.
.3. Ife mast appear before some shipping master once
in every.siX -months',' unless he bas leave -to be abroad
longer,•and he' must report every, chahgo of -residence.
and employment. . ,
4. In. order to, earn a pension, he must continue in
the reServe. as Jong 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: Yolunteers,may.he ealled.ip.on..for actual service
in the navv,by-lloyal Proclamation. It is intended to
exercise: this power only ;when an emergency requires a
sudden increase in the naval force of the country..
G. A- Volunteer, may,- in ..the lirscin'St mice, be-called
out 'for-time years.. If there. is then actual war, and he
is ten s,erving.in one of her liejesty's.ships, he may be
requira to servo foi;,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 dis;;lpline. the obli6ations of
8. A Volunteer who' fails to fulfil ,c
the Reserve, iv? forfeit his claim to retainer and pension,
and if he fa is to join when Carleirmit Tor.actnal service,
trac,mler or deserter from the navy.
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may be treated as a's on
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. ra Tarelment will commence on Ist January, 1866.
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Full information , and detailed -condition& _may be
obtained on application to the Shipping MaSter at any
port in the United Kingdom, or to the Officers of ens-
toms in the Channel Islands and Isle of Mau, d2O