The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-07 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

The
.following Royal Warrant, regulating the
pensions and allowances granted to wounded and
disabled officers, has 70een issued
-Victoria R.—Whe-eas it has been found expedient to
revise the regulations under which pensions and allowances
are granted to officers of our land forces on account of
wounds received in action ; and whereas we were pleased to
issue a warrant under our Royal sign manual, dated the
13th of June, 1857, our will and pleasure now is that our
said Royal warrant of the 13th of June, 18,57, shall from
henceforth be cancelled ; and that this our Royal warrant,
to be administered and interpreted by our Secretary of
State for War, be the sole and standing authority upon the
matters herein contained,
" Given at our Court at St. James's this 27th of October,
1860, in the 24th year of our reign.

" By Her Majesty's command,
" S. HERBERT."
"Pensions and gratuities to officers of the land forces,
limited to wounds and injuries received in action.
" 1. If an officer shall receive a wound in action which
shall occasion the loss of an eye or a limb, or shall lose
th,._,erebylltaheetotal use of a limb, or shall receive bodily in-
g:lni_,!,e r nearly equal, in its consequences to the loss
funve7o:thry receive a gratuity in money of one year's
the regimental rank or Staff appointment held by
him at
wounded for the loss of such eye or
limb, or fore suchh;ras
" 2., If an offi=
elle wounded in action, and it shall
be reported bye i
_,
f army medical officers, assembled
by order of the gat.-7:
oge of State for War, for the personal
examination of each
ore:, that he has, in consequence of
his wound, lost a Ihnb
to Her Majesty for a pet,,lllo eye, he may be recommended
at the rate fixed in the an-
nexed scale, for the rank held'b
the
when he was wounded,
and commencing one year afters: wound was received.
If tho officer shall have los:
eye, he may be recommended for anlore than one limb, or
for each eye, so lost in action. P.cnsion for each limb, ur
" 4. If the wound received by an ott c e r in action shall
be so severe in its permanent effects as to be
filjlll3, equal, or
nearly equal, to the loss of a limb, and their
n,
so reported by the military medical boird,:he:nirY ennysioehbaell re e.
the
commended to her Majesty for a temporary
continuance of which shall depend upon subsequent exanli_
nation before a military medical board.
" 6'. If any wound received in action, shall be certified to
be severe and dangerous, but in its permanent effects not
nearly equal to the loss of a limb, the officer receiving such
wound may receive a gratuity, varying according to the
nature of the case from three to 12 months' full pay of the
regimental rank or staff appointment held by him at the
time he was wounded. _ _

_ .
" 6. If an officer shall have held' a pension for a wound
received in action for, a term of five years, and shall have
been examined twice at the least before a board of army
medical officers, he may be recommended for the permanent
continuance of such pension; but if the officer, before the
expiration of the term of five years, shall have so far reco-
vered that his wound or injury is not equal, or nearly equal,
to the loss of a limb, then he shall cease to -receive such

" 7. If within the period of five years after a wound has
been received an officer shall not apply for the pension, or,
en his so applying for it, the wound` shall not have been
proved to have been permanently equal, or nearly equal, to
the lees of a limb, such officer's claim to a pension for such
ound shall not at any subsequent period be entertained.
" 8. No gratuity for any wound shall be granted after

the lapse of five years from the time the wound was received. •
"9. No pension for the loss of an eye from a wound re-
ceived in action shall be granted, unless the actual loss of
vision shall have occurred within five years after the wound
was received, and be solely attributable to such wound.
" 10. As a general rule, the pension or gratuity shall be
granted according to regimental rank, but in cases inwhich
officers, with or without brevet rank, shall have been em-
ployed at the time they were wounded in discharge of duties
superior to those attached to their regimental commissions,
the gratuities and pensions may be given in accordance
with such duties.
" 11. These pensions may be held together with any
other pay and allowances to which an officer may be enti-
tled, without any deduction on account thereof, and may
continue to be held should the officer leave the service.
" 12. Officers who are still suffering from wounds re-
ceived since the 28th March, 1854, the date of the declara-
tion of war with Russia, should such wounds be certified by
a military medical board to be now equal, or nearly equal,
to the loss of a limb, may receive pensions from the present
time according to the provisions of this warrant.
"Rate of pension :--
"Field-Marshal, General, or Lieut.-General command-
ing-in-chief at the time to be specially considered.
" Lieut.-General, £4OO.
"Major-General and officers holding equivalent relative
rank, £350.
• " Colonels and officers holding equivalent relative rank,
£3OO.
" Major commanding, £250.
". Major and officers holding equivalent relative rank,
£2OO.
" Captain and officers holding equivalent relative rank,
£lOO.
" Lieutenint and officers holding equivalent relative
rank, £7O.
" Cornet and officers holding equivalent relative rank,
£50."