The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

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42. The half-pay of the army is granted as a remunera•
tion for past military services, and also as imposing an ob-
ligation on the officer to return to his military duties when-
ever called upon ; therefore, any officer not obeying the call
islable to forfeit his half-pay, if not incapacitated by illness.
43. An officer shall be entitled to be placed on the half-
pay establishment, if compelled to retire in consequence of
wounds received in action.
44. An officer having served more than three years shall
be entitled to be placed upon the half-pay establishment, if
compelled to retire in consequence of ill health, contracted
on duty, as certified by the medical board or medical offi-
cers to whom he has been referred for examination. Unless
the result of such examination be received by our Comman-
der-in-Chief and Secretary of State for War, he will be con-
sidered to have retired upon half-pay for his own conve-
nience.
45. An officer having actually done duty in some regi-
ment or corps, or in some military capacity, as a commis-
sioned officer in the public service, for a period of at least
three years, shall be entitled to be placed on this half-pay
establishment on reduction from full-pay.
46. No officer shall be permitted to retire upon perma-
nent half-pay until after a full-pay service of 21 years, ex-
cept on account of unfitness for service from wounds re-
ceived in action, or from certified ill-health contracted in
and by military service, or as provided in clause 51, for
officers in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.
47. No garrisoncommission or appointment shall give an
officer any claim to half-pay on retirement.
48. The residence of the half-pay officer is to be stated
every'quarter in his declaration, whether his half-pay be
received by an agent or by himself.
49, 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 Secretary of State for War and Comman-
der-in-Chief to recommend it.
50. 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 followed rules should be ob-
served :
1 1, If he 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 lifs commission, and had served
less than seven. years on full-pay in the army, he may be
allowed to receive £lOO for each year of service as a com-
missioned officer, not, however, exceeding the regulated
price of the commission, he h eld.
3. If a non-commissionedofficer shall have been promoted
to the rank of an ensign, or cornet, or adjutant, he shall not
have a claim to retire, by the sale of his commission, unless
he shall have served in th© army 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 proportion thereof as, with refer-
ence to the length of his actual service, shall be deemed
proper by our Secretary of State for War and Commander-
m-Chief.

51. The following number of officers of the Royal Artillery
and Royal Engineers will be permitted to retire on perma-
nent half pay, at their own request :

Artillery. Engineers.
Lieutenant-Colonels 2 1 annually.
Captains of not less than 21 years'
service . 3 annually 3 every twO
Lieutenants of not less than 20 years.
yeirs' service
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Officers who may have been previously on temporary
half-pay, in consequence of reduction, 'will be allowed to
reckon such time in making up the requisite number of
years of service.
Officers retiring under this clause shall not be eligible for
any further promotion.
52. An officer of any of the under-mentioned ranks, hav-
ing entered the service since the termination of the war in
1815, and having been 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 al-
lowed only the old rate of half pay specified in the follow-
ing schedule _

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