The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-18 00:00:00

ENLISTMENT OF FOREIGNERS.

A Bill intituled an Act to pefrnit Foreigners to be en-
listed and to serve as Officers and Soldiers in her
Majesty's Forces.
Whereas it is expedient that her Majesty, during the
continuance of the war should be enabled to enlist
and employ ioreigners in her army ;
be it therefore
enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and
temporal, and Commons, in this present Par liament as-
sembled, arid by the authority of the same, as follows :-
1. It shall be lawful for her Majesty to cause to be
enlisted as soldiers into her service persons not being na-
tural subjects, or entitled to the privileges of natural born
ub of her Majesty, who may voluntarily enter them-
selves, and to grant commissions or letters of
service to any such persons to serve as officers, the
persons so enlisted and commissioned to be formed into
separate regiments, battalions, and corps, and to
be employed within or out of the United Kingdom as
such
h
Majestymay deem expedient for her service ; and
enlistment, commission, and the service thereunto,
shall be as lawful as if such persons were natural born
subjects of her Majesty.
2. Provided always, that there shall not be within the
United
Kingdom more in the whole than fifteen thou-
sand men serving under this act at any ono time. [Th e
number was reduced on Saturday to ten thousand.]
3. Every person enlisted as a soldier under the authority
of this act shall be attestedin such manner as her Majesty
shall direct, and not otherwise ; and all officers, non-
commissioned officers, drummers, and private soldiers,
enlisting or commissioned under this act, shall take such
oath for their fidelity during their continuance in her
Majesty's 'service as her Majesty shall direct, and no
other.
4. Subject to the provisions herein contained, all
officers, non-commissioned officers, drummers, or pri-
Tate soldiers, serving under the provisions of this act,
shall be subject to all the provisions contained in any
act for the time being_ in force " for Punishing Mutiny
and Desertion, and for the Better Payment of the
Army and their Quarters, and the articles of war made
in pursuance thereof, in the same manner to all intents
and purposes as any of her Majesty's regular forces are
subject to the same.
5. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, if she see fit, to
makeany supplemental articles of war to be applicable spe-
cially to persons who maybe enlisted or commissioned under
this act, and thereby to vary or control any articles of war
for the time being in force ; and the restrictions and pro-
visions contained in any act for the time being in force
" for Punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and the better
Payment of the Army and their Quarters," in relation to
articles of war made thereunder, shall be applicable to
such supplemental articles of war as aforesaid.
6. No officer, serving under this act, when reduced,
shall be entitled to receive half pay, provided neverthe-
less, that when any such officer shall be rendered incap-
able of military service by wounds or infirmities contract.
ed while discharging his military duty during the period
of his continuing to serve as such officer under the provi-
sions of this act, then and in such case it shall be lawful
for her Majesty to make such provision for such officer as
she shall think proper and necessary, so that such pro-
vision shall in no case exceed the half-pay of the rank
in the British serviee, similar to that which such officer
shall have held at the time of his becoming so in cap
able es aforesaid.
7. This act shall continue in force during the present
war, and until one year after the ratification of a de-
finitive treaty of peace.

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