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

THE, ARMY.

The following Royal Warrant, regulating the
pensions and allowances granted to wounded and
disabled officers, has 'seen issued :
" Victoria R.—Whereas it has been found expedient to
revise the regulations under which pensions and allowance;
are granted to officers of our land forces on account of
wounds received in action ; end 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, 1857, 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. HERBER,T."
"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
shallti occasion the lose of an eye or a limb, or shall lose
inLreb_ya the,
*total use of a limb, or shall receive bodily in-
"01E:11._ •r nearly equal, in its consequences to the loss
full hopawybotthmay receive a gratuity in money of one year's
hits regimental rank or Staff appointment held by
at the
limb, or for ehe was wounded for the loss of such eye or
be re
2.
orted if
an
olla
shall be wounded in action, and it shall
p
by order of then ceßoard of army medical officers, assembled
ta
of State for War, for the personal
examination of anab
his wound, lost a u
jar
ocer, that he has, in consequence of
to Her Majesty te, a
I,er au eye, ho may be recommendcl
nexed scale, for thoranirn, at the rate fixed in the an-
and commencing one yearatieulbY him when he was wounded,
iut,orithe wound was received.
If the officer shell
foost more than one limb, or
eye, he may be recommended
for each eye, so lost inaction. r %Pension for each limb, or
" 4. If the wound received by an Ofaein action shall
be
be so severe in its permanent effects as —,:r fully
nearly equal, to the loss of a limb, end the
in equal, or
jurY shall be
so reported by the military medical board, h
commended to her Majesty for a tempera,: nAY be re •
Pension, the
continuance of which shall depend upon subsequent eaanii_
nation before a military medical board.
5. If any wound received in action shall be certified to
be severe and.dangeroua, 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 c-om 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 ho shall cease to receive such

" 7. If within the period of five years aftcr 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 loss of a limb, such officer's claim to a pension for such
(mud shall not at any subsequent period be entertained.
et` 11** etatuity for any wound shall be granted after