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rarity employed with a opeolal, tit with all oldttlavii
bassy or mission, he will receive a commission or an acting
appointment, as the case may be, as secretary of the second
or third class, according to the length of his service in the
Foreign-office; but he will, as regards others then in the
same class, enter it as the junior.
10. Deductions to be made from Salaries of Heads of
Missions on Leave of Absence.
With a view to relieve heads of missions on leave of ab-
sence on private grounds, the deduction to be made from
their salaries will in future be limited, for a period not ex-
ceeding sixty days from the date of their departure from
their posts, to the sum required to provide for the allow-
ances of the acting charge d'affaires ording to the pre-
sent regulations; on the expiration of which period the de-
duction will be at the rate of one• half of their salaries.
Such period of sixty days may either be one of sixty conse-
cutive days, or of sixty days occurring at intervals in the
course of one year beginning on the let of January.
11. Allowances during war or interruption of relations.
Should an Ambassador, Minister, or Secretary, by reason
of war or other interruptions of diplomatic relations, be
withdrawn from active service before his services shall have
qualified him for a diplomatic pension of the class under
which be would otherwise come, the tlecretary of State will,
as he may see fit, assign to any such person a temporary
allowance calculated on the rate of pension assigned to the
class to which he belongs, regard being had to the length
and general character of his services ; such allowance
being, however, strictly subject to the condition in regard
to employment specified in the 7th section of the act of '2nd
and 3rd William IV., c. 116.
12. Date at which present Regulations shall take effect.
The foregoing regulations shall take effect from the Ist
day of October, 1862: but unpaid attaches appointed pre-
viously to the Ist of January, 1861, will be allowed until
the Ist of July, 1863, to undergo their second examination,
according to the regulations now in force ; and if, on such
seeonl examination, they obtain their certificates, they will
retain their present precedence, but not otherwise.
All persons nominated as attaches subsequently to the
date of the present regulations will be tubject to the provi-
sions as to examination therein contained,
The condition of employment for six months in the Fo-
reign-office will not be enforced with regard to unpaid at-
taches in the service abroad at the date of these regula-
tions; but such unpeid attaches must have passed both
examinations under the existing regulations, must have
actually resided for a period of three years at one or more
of her Majesties embassies or missions abroad, must have
corcpioted four years from the time of their entering the
service, and must be provided with the certificate from the
head of the mission under whom they have last served,
specified in elatoe 3 of these regulations, before they can
receive a commissionas a secretary of the third class, or
the salary at the rate of £1.50 a-year assigned to that class.
Those persons who contin!te in the service, or who shall
hereafter enter the service, as unpaid attaches, will be
denominated " attaches."

(Signed)
Foreign-office, September 15, 1862.

RUSSELL.

POACHING AFFRAY AY MIDDLETON 1 l‘r

TEESDALE.