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London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

PROMOTION.

1. That the rank of field-marshal be given without refer-
ence to seniority.
2. That there shall be a fixed establishment of general
officers, viz. : _

For the Guards and the Line& .

Generals 5O
Lieut.-Generals BO
Major-Generals l3O
Generals 6
Lieut.-Generals lO
Major-Generals l6
Generals ... 3
Lieut.-Generals.... 5

For the Artillery

For the Engineers

Major-Generals....

3. That colonels may be appointed, without regard to
seniority, to command as major-generals, with temporary
rank, and if they shall have conducted themselves to our
satisfaction, such temporary rank, after having been held
for five years in peace, or for any shorter period in war,
may, upon the recommendation of our commander-in-chief,
be made permanent. That the temporary rank of general
and lieutenant-general may also be given whenever the
convenience of the service requires it, and may be made
permanent in a similar manner.
4. That every vacancy on the fixed establishment of ge-
neral officers shall be filled by the promotion of the senior
colonel qualified to succeed to the rank of major7general,
and to be placed on the fixed establishment, under the re-
gulations now in force, or by a supernumerary major-
general, as provided in clause 6.
.

- 5. That in addition to the colonels promoted by seniority
to be major-generals, and those promoted after having held
temporary rank under the regulation in clause 3, colonels
shall be eligible for promotion to the rank of major-general,
and major-generals to the rank of lieutenant-general, and
lieutenant-generals to the rank of general, for distinguished
services in the field. in the case of officers promoted to the
rank of general officers, as a reward for distinguished service
in war, the recommendation, in which the service of the
officer shall be detailed, shalt. be published in the General
Orders of the army, and in the London Gazette.
6. That all colonels promoted to be major-generals after
five years' employment in responsible commands with the
temporary rank of major-general under the provisions in
clause 3, and all colonels promoted to be major-generals
for distinguished service in the field, shall be placed on a
supernumerary list of major-generals, and shall not be
reckoned as part of the fixed establishment until the time
when they would have attained the rank of major-general
by seniority ; that is to say, until the colonel who originally
stood next senior on the colonels' list to the officer promoted
out of his turn has become a major-general, after which the
next vacancy will be filled by the transfer of the supernu-
merary major-general to the fixed establishment. The
major-generals who have already been promoted out of
their turn, and would not yet have succeeded to that rank
by seniority, shall be considered as coming under this rule,
but they shall be specially allowed to retain the pay of 255.
a-day which they acquired on being originally placed on
the fixed establishment.

The supernumerary major-generals, when absorbed into
the fixed establishment, shall preserve the seniority which
they acquired when, after a period of qualifying service
with temporary rank; they were first confirmed as permanent
major-generals on the supernumerary list, and shall rise by
that seniority to be lieutenant-generals in succession.
General officers promoted for distinguished service in the
field will take their seniority from the date of their promo-
tion, as stated in the London Gazette.
7. That three separate lists of general officers be inserted
in the Army List, the first containing the names of those
on the fixed establishment ; the second, those who, having
been promoted out of their regular turn, are supernumerary
the fixed establishment ; and the third, those on the halt-
pay of their former regimental commissions.
8. That the rank of colonel be given to officers, after '
serving for five years with the rank of lieutenant-colo-
nel, in the actual command of regiments, or for the
same period a. 4 second lieutenant-colonels of regiments, or
as major and lieutenant-colonel, or major in the House-
hold Cavalry, or as mounted officers of the Foot Guards,
or on the staff, in the following situations, viz., deputy
adjutant-general, deputy quartermaster-general, assistant
adjutant-general, assistant quartermaster-general, military
secretary (or assistant military secretary where there shall
be no military secretary) to such general officers alone as
are exercising the supreme command on a station, commis-
sioner to the head-quarters of an allied army, inspector-
general of army schools, members of the Council of Military
Education, lieutenant-governor or superintendent of studies
at the Royal Military College, or commandant of the Staff
College, or after serving for eight years with the rank of
lieutenant-colonel as equerry to the Sovereign, subject al-
ways to the approval of our Commander-in-Chief of the
manner in which an officer has commanded his regiment, or
discharged the duties of his appointment. The military
superintendents of the manufacturing departments of the
army will be eligible to be promoted from the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel to that of colonel after five years' service in
the former rank, subject to the approval of our Secretary of
State for War.
9. That regimental majors, who are brevet lieutenant-
colonels, falling into the command of regiments in the ab-
sence of the lieutenant-colonel,shall, on attaining the rank
of regimental lieutenant-colonel, reckon the' period com-
mencing from the completion of the first month of such
temporary command as part of the five years required to
qualify for the rank of colonel.
10. That the rank of colonel be given to officers who obtain
the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel for services in the field,
after eight years of actual service with that rank.
11. That in cases where a regiment serving abroad may be
so divided as to constitute two distinct commands, and one
portion maybe under the command of the regimental major,
who is also a brevet lieutenant-colonel, and in eases where a
brevet lieutenant-colonel may be in command of a mixed
force of different corps, a discretionary power shall be vested
in our Commander-in-Chief, subject to the approval of our
Secretary of State for War, to allow such service, or
t-cosappointed por-
tions
of such service, to count as part of the qualifying
period Thatfor mm
uotteineann to thelo n rankel of colonel.
12. P
o t.
o civil situations
under Government on or after the date of this our royal
warrant, shall be promoted to the rank of colonel after eight
years service in the former rank, provided the nature of
the civil appointment be considered by our Secretary of
State for War and Commander-in-Ch .
Commander-in-Chief calculated to give
the officer such practical experience as may afterwards
prove advantageous to the corps or service to which he be-
longs.
13. That field officers, commissioned as such before the
20th of June, 1851, be allowed to rise by brevet as hereto-
fore
; but no officer promoted to the rank of field officer on
or before that date is hereafter to rise from the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel to that of colonel otherwise than by five or
eight years' service in the former rank, as provided in clause
8, or as a reward for distinguished service, or by appoint-
ment to be Queen's aide-de-camp, except under the special
provisions in clauses 9, 10, 11, and 12.
14. Lieutenant-colonels who held that rank prior to the
20th of June, 1851, shall be promoted by special brevet to
the rank of colonel—commissions to bear date the 28th No-
vember, 1854--and such of the said lieutenant-colonels as
have been passed over by
- officers who have attained the
rank of colonel in conformity with the provisions of our
royal warrants of the 6th October and 3d November, 1854,
shall be restored to the respective places which they would
have occupied as colonels, had they been promoted in ordi-
nary succession under the system of periodical brevet.
15. That promotions shall be made from captain to
major, and from major to lieutenant-colonel, in succession,
as vacancies occur in the major-generals' fixed establish-
meat.
16. That any captain, major, or lieutenant-colonel, may
be rewarded by brevet promotion for distinemished services
in the field ; but no officer receiving such brevet promotion
shall be permitted to exchange brevet for substantive rank,
except for conspicuously distinguished service in the field,
and unless substantive rank could not at first, and at the
time, have been awarded to him, and that for the interest of
the service he shall have been allowed temporarily to take
brevet rank instead; and in every case in which such excep-
tional promotions shall be given,the recommendation in which
the service of the officer shall be detailed shall be published
in the general orders of the army, and in the London Gazette,
17. That no officer who held brevet rank and was consi-
dered eligible under the 13th clause of our warrants of the
6th of October awl 34 of November, 1854, to have that rank

22. Officers removed from their commissions as field officers
in regiments of Foot ,Guard. s,* consequence of being pro-
moted to be generrl officers, snarl 'receive- unattached pay
according to the following scale, viz., lieutenant-colonel,
£6OO a year; major, £550 a year.
23. Officers promoted to be general officers from full or
half-pay commissions in the line shall, if duly qualified to
be placed on the fixed establishment, receive unattached
pay of £1 ss. a day.
24. Regimental colonels of Artillery and Engineers, pro-
mote& to be general officers, shall receive the net full-pay
of their former rank, and regimental field officers of these
corps so promoted shall receive the unattached pay of £1
ss. a day, until they shall be appointed colonels command-
ant of battalions. •

25. A general officer being colonel of a regiment, in the
regi
ment being reduced, may be placed, in the
first instance, as supernumerary upon the said establish-
ment of unattached pay, at £1 ss. day; but shall fall into
the first vacancy that may occur therein, until re-ap-
pointed colonel of a regiment.
26. A colonel promoted to the rank of general officer, as
a reward for distinguished service in war, or in consequence
of having held a command with temporary rank as general
officer, shall, while supernumerary to the fixed establish-
ment, receive the unattached pay of £4OO a year, until he
he shall receive a vacancy on the first establishment of ge-
neral officers. .

27. -To entitle an officer to the unattached pay of a gene-
ral officer, such officer must have actually served six years
with the rank of a regimental field officer, either in the
Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, or with a regiment of
the Guards or line; or in some other substantive military
employment in the public service,.or as mounted officer of
the Foot Guards, or in either of the appointments detailed
in clause 8 of this warrant, excepting that of equerry to the
Sovereign, in which appointment- eight years' service will
be required, or, having obtained the rank of regimental
field officer, shall have been obliged to -go upon full-pay
on account of reduction, or in consequence of ill health
contracted in the service (as established by the report of
a board of medical officers), or in conseqienee of wounds re-
ceived in action before he had served the six or eight years
prescribed in this our royal warrant.
28. The benefit of unattached pay shall not be extended
to any general officer who, when he last went upon half-
pay, received the difference, unless he had previously paid
it; nor to say officer who went upon half-pay at his own
request in time of war, before he had completed an aggre-
gate full-pay service of 30 years, of which period six years
shall have been with the rank of regimental field officer ;
nor to any officer who went upon half-pay at his own re-
quest, in time of peace, before he had served six or eight
years, as in the preceding article, with the rank of regi-
mental field officer.
Officers thus situated shall continue to receive the half-
pay only of which they were in the receipt at the time of
their promotion to be general officers.

RETIRED PULL PAY.
29. The retired full-pay list of field officers and captains
of the Guards and line shall be fixed at £60,000 a year, and
of the Artillery and Engineers at £48,000 a year ; all officers
who were on the full-pay retirement previously to the royal
warrant of 1840 being considered supernumerary to the
establishment of £60,000 and £48,000 respectively.
30. The colonels, lieutenant-colonels, majors, and cap-
tains of the Guards and line, allowed to retire upon full-
pay, shall be selected and recommended to us by our com-
mander-in-chief; with the concurrence of our Secretary of
State for War, and appointed according to their regimen-
tal and not according to their brevet rank; but no officer
shall be placed on the retired full-pay list who has not
served on full-pay of a regiment,or in a staff situation, for
an aggregate period of 30 years, unless under special cir-
cumstances arising from ill-health contracted in the service
or in consequence of wounds received in action, it shall be
deemed expedient by our Secretary for War to reduce such
service to any shorter period than 30 years.
31. The retirement of officers of the Royal Artillery and.
Royal Engineers shall not be confined to the ranks of lieu-
tenant-colonel, captain, and lieutenant, but may include a
proportion of unattached general officers and regimental
colonels who, relinquishing the prospect of succeeding to the
command of battalions, shall be permitted to retire on £6OO
a year.

32. Lieutenant-colonels of Royal Artillery and Royal
Engineers, with the rank of colonel, of not less than 30
years' service, will be permitted to retire on £lOO a year,
and lieutenant-colonels of shorter periods of service, and
officers of inferior rank, of Artillery and Engineers, on their
regimental pay, subject to the provisions of clause 30, as to
unfitness from ill health and wounds received in action.
33. The retired pay of lieutenant.colonels shall be 20s. a
day. - -

34. Each officer placed on the retired full-pay list shall
receive a step of honorary rank, together with the full-pay
of the rank from which he retired (or the special rates appli-
cable to officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engi-
neers) ; but such officer cannot be further promoted.
35. The regimental field-officers of Royal Artillery and
Royal Engineers who have been placed on the retired full-
pay list, or who may have retired on half-pay as such, in
consequence of •wounds or ill health contracted in the ser-
vice anterior to our warrant of Nov. 3, 1851, shall be pro-
moted in succession up to the rank of colonel and general
officer, when those who stood next below them on the effec-
tive establishment are so promoted. On attaining the rank
of general officer, a number not exceeding eight of the Royal
Artillery and four of the Royal Engineers shall be allowed
to receive £4OO a year each, and the two seniors of the
Royal Artillery, and the senior officer of the Royal Engi-
neers who shall have been promoted shall each receive £5O
a year, in addition to the before-mentioned sum of £lOO per
annum.
36. Officers • appointed to veteran battalions shall not, on
their reduction or retirement therefrom, acquire any claim
to retired full-pay.
37. That officers commanding regiments shall be required
to retire therefrom on attaining 60 years of age, unless it be
reported to our commander-in-chief by the general officer
inspecting a regiment that its condition and discipline are
such as to prove that it would be advantageous to the service
fpr the commanding officer to continue in the command o' his
corps. Officers retiring under this provision will be allowed
the rate of retired full-pay fixed by this our royal warrant,
retaining their prospect of becoming general officers, and
their right to unattached pay as general officers in lieu of
retired full-pay, provided such officers shall at the period
of their retiremegt hold the rank of colonel in the army,
and have fulfilled the conditions of service required.
TEMPORARY ALLOWANCE IN THE NATURE OF HALF-PAY.
• 38. An officer having served less than three years will,
itlreduced, received only a temporary allowance of half-pay,
according to the following scale :
Services on full-pay. Temporary allowance.
Under 1 year .
1 and under 2 years
2 and under 3 years for 3 years.

The temporary allowance ceases at the termination of the
above-recited periods, or sooner if the officer shall have been
previously placed on full-pay.
39. 'An officer who has been placed on temporary half-
pay is eligible to be appointed to a full-pay commission,
either by exchange or otherwise, provided his appointment
takes place within five years after he has ceased to receive
temporary half-pay, in which case his former service is
allowed to reckon. _ _ _

.40. The exchange to full-pay under the preceding article
may be made with a full-pay officer entitled to half-pay.
41. An officer who has been reduced with only a tempo-
'rap, allowance, having purchased his commission, may re-
ceive the regulated price thereof from the public through our
Secretary of State for War, and the public shall be reim-
bursed by the sale of a first full-pay commission, which
would otherwise have beer. conferred wit-Input purchase ; but
those sales shall not be required in any greater proportion
than one for every two such vacated commissions.