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

UNATTACHED PAY.

22. Officers removed from their commissions as field officers
in regiments of Foot Guards, in consequence of being pro-
moted to be generrl officers, shall receive unattached pay
according to the following scale, viz., lieutenant-colonel,
ICAO 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
beEngineers, pro-
meted to getters' officers, shallrecewe the net
,fall-pay
of their former rank, '
and regimental' field ,officers of these
corps so promoted shall receive the unattached pay of
ss. a day, until they shall be appointed colonels command-
ant of battalions.

25. A general officer being colonel of a regiment, in the
event of hinregiment 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 appointmnnts detailed
in clause 8 of this warrant, excepting that of equerry to the
Sovereign, in which appointment eight years' service will
be required, or, haring obtained the rank of regimental
field officer, shall have been obliged to go I.won 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 consequence 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 any 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 FULL 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 notAaccording 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 eiiod 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 nay 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 £4OO 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-pa/ 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, 1854, 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 £4OO 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
for the commanding officer to continue in the command 04.' 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 retirement hold the rank of colonel in the army,
and have fulfilled the conditions of service required.

TEMPORARY ALLOWANCEINTFLE NATURE OF HALF-PAY.
38. An officer having served less than three years will,
if reduced, 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 for 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-par 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-
rary 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 been conferred without purchase ; but
these sales shall not be required in any greater proportion
than one for every two such vacated. commissions.