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London, England, 1854-10-21 00:00:00

HALF-PAY.

33. The half-pay of the army is granted as a remunera-
tion for past military services, and ales apt- imrosing an
obligation on the officer to return to his military duties
whenever called Upon therefore any officer not obeying
the call is liable to forfeit his half-pay.
39. An officer shall be entitled to be placed on the half-
pay establishment, if compelled to retire in consequence of
wounds received in action.

40. An officer having served more than three years shall
be entitled to be placed upon the half-pay establishment,
if compelted to retire in consequence of ill-health con-
tracted on duty, as certified by the Medical Board or medi-
cal officers to whom he has been referred for examination.
Unless the result of such examination be received by our
Commander-in-Chief and Secretary-at-War, he will be con-
sidered to have retired upon half-pay for his own conve-
nience.

41. An officer having actually done duty in some regi-
ment or corps, or in some other military capacity in the
public service, for a period of at least three years, shall be
entitled to be placed on the half-pay establishment on re-
duction from full pay.
42. No officer shall be permitted to retire upon perma-
nent half-pay until after a full-pay service of twenty-one
years, except on account of unfitness for service from
wounds received in action, or from certified ill health con-
tracted in and by military service.
43. No garrison commission or appointment shall give
an officer any claim to half-pay on retirement.
41. The residence of the half-pay officer is to bo stated
every quarter in his declaration, whether his half-pay be
received by an agent or by himself.
45. No officer on half-pay shall, of right, have a claim
to sell or commute his half-pay; the permission shall be
governed by such consideration of the individual case, as
may induce our Commander-in• Chief and Secretary at
War to recommend it.

4G. If a subaltern officer, whose service confers a claim
to half-pay, be desirous of retiring from the army by the
sale of his commission, the following rules should be ob-
served :

I. If ho purchased his commission the regulated price
may be granted (whether he should be receiving half-pay
or a temporary allowance in the nature of half-pay).
2. If he did not purchase his commission' and had served
less than 7 years on fall-pay in the army, he may be al-
lowed to receive 1001. for each year of service as a com-
missioned officer, not however exceeding the regulated
price of the commission he held.
3. If a non-commissioned officer shall have been pro-
moted to the rank of an ensign, or cornet, or adjutant, he
shall not, have a claim to retire by the sale of his commis-
sion unless he shall have served in the array as an officer
on full-pay upwards of one year, in which case he may be
awarded the full price of the commission which he shall
have received without purchase, or such portion thereof
as, with reference to the length of his actual service, shall
be deemed proper by our Commander-in-Chief and Secre-
tary at War.
47. An officer of any of the undermentioned ranks, hay-
ing entered the service since the termination of the war in
1815, and having boon permitted to exchange to half-pay,
not on account of ill health, but for his private convenience,
before he had served seven years on full-pay, shall be
allowed only the old rate of half-pay specified in the fol-
lowing schedule :

CAVALRY. I INFANTRY.
New viu Now Old
Rate. Rate. Rate. Rate.
Per Per Per Per
diem. , q•ein. diem. diem.
a. d. s. d. a. d. a. d.
Colonel l5 6 13 0 14 8 12 0
Lieutenant-Colonel
Major .... •• •
Captain.. • ••• • .. 7 6 5 6 7 0 5 0
Dit o of Infantry, having supe-
rior brevet rauk, and pro-
vided he shall have served
as Captain on full pay for at
least two yearsimmediate'y
before retirement to half-
pay ...
Ditto of Cavalry, with brevet
rank, exchanging to h
If-
pay, after two years' full-
pay service, with a Captain
•f Infantry .... • • •• . • • • 7 6 A'•A
Lieutenant ..... ....... • ... 4 8 3 0 4 0
Ditto of Infantry, if commis-
sioned seven years as Lieu.
tenant in the regular army
at the date of being placed
upon half-pay ~.
•• 4 6 ••
Ditto of Cavalry, of five years'
standing, ifentitled to reckon
two years for the bat.le of
Waterloo ...... ..... 5 2
Cornet
Second Lieutenant and Ens gri z•• 6 110
••
Adjutant, if not commissioned
as Lieutenant 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 °
If the retirement should h. f.:•• ,a Win conYenienc

lie convenience
tee of ill.bealth,
11 be allowed the

If the retirement should be far the pal)
by reduction or otherwise, or in consequen
certified by a medical board, the officer shal
new rate of half-pay.
48. For every three vacancies occurring by death on the
British half-pay list is tho ranks of colonel and lieutenant-
colonel, one major serving upon full-pay may be promoted
to the unattached rank and half-pay of a lientenant.colonel
of infantry ; in like manner for every three vacancies in
the rank of major, one captain may be promoted from the
full-pay to the unattached rank and half-pay of a major;
and for every three vacancies in the rank of captain, one
lieutenant may be promoted to the unattached rank and
half-pay of captain.
The officers so promote,' under this regulation shall retain
their claims to pensions for their widows at the rate ac-
corded to their new ranks.
The vacancies which these promotions will create en the
full-pay list shall be in all cases filled from the half-pay
list.

49. The additional 1001. a-year to 20 lieutenant-colonels
on the half-pay lint, established by former royal warrants,
shall be discontinued, subject to existing interests.
MEDICAL FFICERS.
50. Tko rate of half-pay forO a nzedical officer of the army
shall in every casa be determined by the service which he
may have rendered upon full-pay, and the circumstances
under which he may be placed upon half-pay.
51. If a medical officer shall be placed upon half-pay by
a redaction of establishment he shall be allowed the halt-
pay to which his services may' entitle him, according to the
following schedule :

RANK OF
REDUCED EDICAL
OFFIOEKS.,

Inspector-General of
Hospitals
........
Deputy Inspector-Ge-1
no-ral of Hospitals
Staff Surgeor,s, First
Class
Regimental Surg of.
and Staff Surgeon,
Second Class...
Assistant-Surgeon ..

Pates of Half pay after a Service on

FOl:pay of

20 10 Less
but but than
25 under under 1,
30 but 25 20 Years.
Years. under Years. Years.
30
Years.
Temporary until he can be
recalled to Service.
Per Per Per Per Per
diem. diem. diem. diem. diem.
£ s. d s. d £ s. d £ s. d. £ s. d.
1 10 ( 1 5 C 1 0 0 .. ••
1 0 ( 017 0 014 0 010 6 0 8 0
017 C 015 0012 6 010 0 0 7 6
0 15 C 013 C 011 0 0 8 6 0 G 0
07607606 0 0 5 0 0 4 0

52. If a medical officer shall be placed upon half-pay
from any other cause than reduction of establishment, he
shall be allowed the half-pay to which his services may en-
title him, according to the following schedule :

Rates of Half•pay after a Service on

rill-pay of

itixm OF
RETIRED MEDICAL
OFFICERS.

20 10
but but Less
25 than
but
under under
33 25 20 10
Years. under Years. Years. Years.
30
Years.
Temporary until be can be
recaled to Service.
Per Per Per Per Per
diem. diem. diem. (lion. diem.
£s. d. £.s. d. a. d s. d£s. d.
1 0 C 0 15 C 0 12 C
••
018 ( 014 0 010 C 0 8 I 0 7 0
016 C 013 ( 0 9( 0 7 1 0 6 6
0 15 C 0 11 C 0 8 C 0 6( 0 5 6
0 7 0 t." 0 5 1 0 4 0 0 3 0
1

Inspector-General of
Hospitals
Deputy Inspect
here of nospitols
Staff Surgeoo, First
Class
Ilegiment7.l Surgeon
and Staff Surgeon,
Second C1a55......
Assistant-Stn geon

53. Every medical officer who may have served upon
full-pay for twenty-five years and upwards, shall have the
right to retire upon half-pay, and may be recommended
for the rate assigned to his rank and service in the schedule
annexed to article 51, provided he shall have served 3
years in the rank from which he retires ; but if he shall
not have served three years in such rank, he shall receive
only the rate attached to the reek from which he was last
promoted.
if a medical officer shall have served 30 years on full-