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V. Of the Royal Marines.

Privates of the Royal Matinesshall he entitled as Landmen,
if their length of Service falls short of Fourteen Years, and
as Oidinary Seamen when it shall exceed that period.
After Twenty-one Years Service they are also to be en-
tit4rd to their Free Discharge, and to an addition to their
Pension, at the rate of an Ordinary Seaman for every addi-
tional year they may crmose to continue in the Service.

VI. Of Boys.
Boys, in cases of Sickness or Debility, shall be pensioned
as Landmen; but Boys' time shall not be reckoned in com-
puting- the Pension for length of Service; and of Persons
brought up from Boys in his Majesty's Service, Man's Time
shall commence front the age of Eighteen Years.
VII. Of Pensions to Petty and Non-commissioned Officers.
That the Petty and Non-commissioned Officers named in
the margin (Rope-maker, Ship's Corporal, Captain of Tops,
Captain of After-guard; Captain of Masts, Corporal of _Ma-
rines,) shall receive, in addition to the Rates of Pension to
which their Service, as ,Seamen, Lamb'," or marines,
would entitle:them, One Retains' per Dicta for each Year
of their Service as such Petty or Non-commissioned Officer.
That the Petty and Non-commissioned Officers named in
the margin (Clerk, Schoolmaster, Armourer, Master at
Arms, Carpenter's Mate, Caulker, Quarter-Master, Boat-
swain's Mate, Sail-maker, Gunner's Mate, Yeoman of Powder
Room, Ditto of Sheets, Coxswain, Quarter-Master's ,Mate,
Captain of -Forecastle, Scrjeant of Marines,) dial! be en-
titled to One Halfpenny per Diem, in addition to the Rate of
Pension to which their Services as Seamen; Lamb:len, or
Marines, would entitle them.
VIII. Of Pensions to Warrant Ogieers, •

Lf• it shall at any tine please the. King iu Council to grant.

t-,s any eh the Warrant atit*ri.oi-T"etsons taste) its the
rs‘ron, (Boatswain, Gamier, Carpenter, Purser, Mast-or,
Surgeon,-Surgeon's Assistant, Master's Male, MiSshipinan,)
on account of Wounds or Hurts received in his Majesty's
Service, a Pension on the Ordinary Eatimate of the Navy,
sod) ()nicer or Vcri.-on shall not be entitled to any Pension
from Greenwich Hospital.

IX. •Of VA charged 11Ten Pe-enttritig.
If a Man, after being regularly discharged, shall re.tuter
his Majesty's Service, he shall be entitled, in- computing •liis
ultimate Rate of Pension, to the addition of his subsequent
to his former Service.
X. Of the Forfeiture of Pensions,

As all these Pensions are. intended for the encouragement
amtreward of good and faithful conduct in the Seamen and
Marines, all claim thereto may be barred and forfeited.
Ist. By sneh misconduct of the Individual as shall induce
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to order the said
PenSions to h( withheld or:refitied-*

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2nd. By desertion or running .frOm his Majesty's Service;
and if any Deserter shall be retaken, or shall re-enter his
Majesty's Service, he shall commence a new t',ie from the
date of such subsequent vntry, and shall not be entitled to
reckon any time preceding such desertion or runniTt,' except
the R. shall have been previously removed, by 'order of ',the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

3rd By Sentenceof a Court-Martial.
4th. Pensioners who shall not have been discharges as
wholly incapable, -or for baring served Twenty-one Years or
upwards, or whose age shall not exceed Fifty Years, may
forfeit their Pensions, by neglecting or omitting to attend at
such Port or Place, and at such Time, as shall, in time of
War, or in prospect of a War, be appointed for the assem-
bling of the Pensioners, by the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, or by neglecting or refusing to serve his Majesty
in such manner as to the said Lords Cbmmissioners may
seem proper, except when such neglect or omission to appeal,
or such neglect or refusal to serve, shall be accounted for by
reasonable excuse, to be admitted by the said Lords Commis-
sioners.

All the foregoing Pensions shall be paid by Quarterly Pay-
ments, but no fractional part of a Shilling shall be payable at
any sorb Payment.

N. B. It is not intended to make any alteratiop in Pensions
.already gritivicif except that Petty and Non-commissioned
Officers discharged since Apra, 1614; may receive the
additional Allowance to which they would now under this
Regulation be entitled.