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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1868.

INDIA-OFFICE, 27TH JULY, 1868.
FHB SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA. in
COUNCIL having confirmed the following RULES
goinulgated by the Governor-General of India in Council,
regarding .LEAVE of ABSENCE to COVENANTED
CIVIL SERVANTS, publishes the same in supercession
of all previous Rules and Orders on the subject.
These Rules will take effect from the Ist July, 1868, and
are not intended to apply to Covenanted Civil Servants,
who are Members of the Councils of the Governor-Cmeral,
or of the Governors of Bombay and Madras, or who are

Judges of a High Court.
RULES REGARDING LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO
COVENANTED CIVIL SERVANTS.
DEFINITIONS.
I. In the following Rules—
" Actual Service" includes the period during which an
officer is on duty, also periods spent on privilege and sub-
sidiary leave, and periods during which an officer, not on
leave, may be out of employ on subsistence allowance in
India.
"Extraordinary Leave" means any leave granted other-
wise than under these Rules.
" Long Extraordinary Leave" means extraordinary
leave extending beyond ti period of three months.
"Long Furlough" means furlough extending beyond a
period of three months.
" Salary" includes acting allowances.
An Officer's "Station" means that station to which he
stands appointed, or such other place as the Government
to which he is subordinate may determine.
CHAPTER I.
FURLOUGH.
11. The maximum period of furlough, which can be
granted to any officer during the whole period of his ser-
vice is limited to six years.
111. Subject to the above limit, one year's furlough shall
be placed re the credit of each officer for every four years
of actual service.
IV. No furlough shall be taken before the completion
of eight years' actual service, except under Rule VIII.
V. Furlough shall not be repeated until three years from
the date of the last return from long extraordinary leave,
or long furlough, except under Rule VIII. Leave taken
under Chapters 11. and 111., but no other leave, shall be
reckoned as part of the said three years.
VI. The maximum term of furlough to be taken at any
one time shall be two years.
VII. Except as hereinafter provided, an officer when on
furlough shall retain a lien on his substantive appoint-
ment, or on an appointment of similar character and not
less salary, and he shall be granted allowances at the rate
of 50 per cent. of his average salary for the previous three
years, or for the period which has elapsed since his last
return from long furlough, or long extraordinary leave, if
that period be less than three years.
In calculating such average, the time spent and the
allowances drawn under any leave, excepting privilege
leave under Chapter_ll., shall be omitted.
Provided that no officer on furlough shall draw pure
than £1,200 or less than £3OO per annum.
VIII. Under Medical Certificate
(a.) Furlough may be taken on the above-mentioned
conditions, without reference to the amount at credit under
Rule 111.
(b.) Furlough for a period not exceeding one year may
be taken, even if less than three years have elapsed since
the last return from long extraordinary leave or long fur-
lough. When on farleugh under this clause an officer
will not retain a lien on his appointment, and will be en-
titled only to subgistence allowance, unless he has com-
pleted six monthPactual service since his last return from
long extraordinary leave or long furlough, and there re-
main some leave to his credit under Rule 111., in which
case the officer will retain a lien on his appointment, and
will draw allowances as calculated under Rule VII., until
that credit be exhausted, but in no case for a period ex-
ceeding one year.
(c.) Furlough taken without medical certificate, or under
clause (a) of this Rule, may be extended beyond fwo'
years for a period not exceeding one year. When on fur-
lough under this clause an officer will not retain a lien on
his appointment, and will be entitled only to subsistence
allowance.
IX. Furlough taken or extended under Rule VIII. is
subject to the provision of Rule 11.
X. Furlough taken in India will bo reckoned from the
date of the officer quitting his station to the date of his
return thereto. Furlough taken out of India will be
reckoned from the date of embarkation to the date of
return.
In the event of the furlough being taken partly in India,
and partly out of India, the commencement and termina-
tion of the furlough will be determined by the above Rules,
according as the furlough begins or ends in or out of
India.
XI. For the interval elapsing between departure from
his station and the commencement of furlough, and be-
tween the termination of furlough and the re-arrival at his
station, an officer shall be allowed subsidiary leave not
ordinarily exceeding in each case thirty days. During
those periods his allowances; will be calculated in the same
way as his furlough allowances, but without limitation as
to maximum and minimum. Provided that, if the officer
has, under these Rules, lost his lien on his appointment, he
shall draw subsistence allowance of his rank. Subsidiary
leave shall count as service and residence.
XII. Applications for furlough will in all cases be sub-
mitted to the Government to which, the applicant is sub-
ordinate, and will be' dealt with in such manner as the
Governor-General of India in Council may from time to
time prescribe.
XIII. Subject to the exigencies of the service, both as
regards the number of furloughs avail`ale!e at any one time,
and as regards individual applications, of e hich exigencies
the Government of India, Madras, or Bombay, as the case
may be, shall be exclusively the judge, furloughs will be
granted under these Rules.
XIV. All applications for furlough under medical certi-
ficate, in accordance with these Rules, will be granted
without restriction.
XV. lf, owing to the exigencies of the service, it may
be necessary to place any limit on the number of officers
who may be absent on furlough at the same time, applica-
tions not supported by medical certificate will bo granted
in the following order:—
The applicant to whose credit the greatest amount of
furlough remains under Rule 111. shall have the preference.
If two or more applicants are on an equality in this
respect, the preference shall be given to the applicant,
whose actual service iu India is longest, reckoning, in the
case of an officer who has not taken long extraordinary
leave or long furlough, from the date of arrival in India,
and in the case of an officer who has taken long extraor-
dinary leave or long furlough, from the date of his last
return from such leave or furlough.
If two or more applicants are equal in both respects,
the preference shall be given to the senior in the Grada-
tion List.
XVI. The term of residence qualifying for pension shall
be 21 years, but no leave, except privilege leave and sub-
sidiary leave, shall count as residence.
XVII. The term of service qualifying for pension shall
be 20 years.

CHAPTER 11.
PRIVILEGE LEAVE.
XVIII. Subject to the exigencies of the State, an officer
who has completed eleven months' continuous duty may
take privilege leave for one month without deduction from
his salary, retaining a lion on his appointment, whether
substantive or officiating. Provided that, in the case of
his holding an officiating appointment, such lien and his
acting allowance will cease on the resumption of charge by
the officer to whom the substantive appointment belongs.
XIX. In the same manner, and under the same condi-
tions, two or three months' privilege leave may be taken
when an officer has completed continuous duty of twenty-
two or twenty-three months respectively.
XX. Privilege leave may, at the discretion of the local
Government, be taken in separate instalments. No second
instalment shall be taken until after the completion of six
months' continuous duty from the expiry of the first in-
stalment. In this case the eleven months qualifying for
fresh privilege leave will be reckoned from the expiry of
the first instalment, the period of the second instalment
being omitted from the calcuhtioa.
Provided that the whole l rivilege leave taken at any
one time shall not exceed three months, and that no
accumulation of privilege leave beyond that period shall
be admitted.
XXI. If an officer shall over-stay his privilege leave, he
shall forfeit all salary during the time of his remaining so
absent; and, if ho shall so continue absent for more than
one week, his office shall become vacant.
XXII. Privilege leave shall be reckoned as residence
and service.

CHAPTER 111.
SPECIAL LEAVE.

XXIII. Special leave, on urgent private affairs, may be
granted at the discretion of the local Government for a
period not exceeding six months. In respect of retention
of a lieu on appointment, of allowances drawn during the
leave, and of subsidiary leave, tho conditions of special
leave shall be the same as those prescribed for furlough.
Special leave shall not be reckoned as residence.
XXIV. Rule XXI. shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to an
officer overstaying spacial leave.
XXV. Special leave may be repeated without allow-
ances after intervals of at least six years' actual service.

CHAPTER IV.
GENERAL.

XXVI. Furlough, privilege, leave, and special leave
shall not be taken as such in continuation of each other;
but, if an officer absent on one of these classes of leave be
allowed to change it for another, the whole period of his
absence shall be held to be under the class of leave for
which it was changed.
XXVII. Subject to considerations of State, there will
be no restriction as to the places where an officer may
reside when on leave.
XXVIII. Leave allowance shall be payable monthly, if
payment is taken in India, and quarterly if payment is
taken in England.

:CHAPTER V.
TEMPORARY RULES.

XXIX. Whatever aggregate amount out of the three
years' furlough and three years' sick leave, under the
Rules until now in force, at present remains to be taken by
an officer under the said Rit:es, shall remain to be taken by
him under Rules now promulgated.
XXX. Any officer now in the service shall, when next
proceeding on furlough, elect whether he will draw allow-
ances at the higher minimum rate of £5OO per annum (not
exceeding his total salary at the time). If he shall so
elect, he will, in any future furlough, be limited, as to
allowance, to the lower maximum rate of £1; 000 per
annum.
XXXI. Any officer now absent on leave, who has no
appointment, may, o❑ his return, and until he again holds
an appointment carrytug equal pay to that of the substan-
tive appointment which be last held, draw the subsistence
allowance of his rank, together with 7a per cent. of the
pay of any appointment in which he shall officiate. Pro-
vided that the total salary so drawn by him shall not ex-
ceed the pay of the appointment, in which he is officiating,.
This Rule shall apply to any officer who may have already
returned from furlough.
XXXII. Any officer now absent on furlough, or under
medical certificate, may elect whether the remainder of his
leave shall be taken under these Rules from the date of
their promulgation. If he shall so elect, Rule XXX. shall
not apply to him.
RULES REGARDING ACTING ALLOWANCES.
I. An officer holding a substantive appointment, and
officiating in an appointment of a higher grade or class,
shall draw acting allowance calculated at SO per cent. on

the first 2,000 rs., and 20 per cent. on the remainder of the
pay of the appointment in which h-) is officiating.
Provided that, if the acting allowance so calculated do
not amount to two-thirds of the difference between the
pay of the two appoiutmentF, it shall be raised to two-
thirds. _ .

Provided further, that in no case shall the whole salary
so drawn exceed the pay of the appointment in which the
officer is officiating.
IL An officer holding no substantive, but only an offi-
ciating, appointment, shall, subject to the provisoes in
Rule 1., draw, in addition to the subsistence allowance of
his rank, 50 per cent. of the pay of the appointment in
which he is officiating.
111. In the case of an officer officiating in an appoint-
ment the pay of which is progressive, his acting allow-
ances shall be calculated on the mean pay of the said
appointment, provided that the whale salary so drawn
shall Lot exceed the minimum pay of the said appoint-
went. CLINTON.

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Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, July 31, 1868.
TITE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
17th August next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will
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Tenders are to be made at a rate per 100 lb., and not at
per cwt., and no attention will be paid to offers not so
made. Tho Contractor, in claiming payment for vege-
table supplied, is to make out his invoices in pounds at per
100 lb. _ _

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
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also by applying to the Captain Superintendent of her
Majesty's Victualling Yard at Gosport. The conditions
of the Contract may also be seen at the above places.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Vegetables at Gosport," and must also be
delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victual-
ling, Admiralty, Somerset House, signed by two respon-
sible persons, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering in the sum of £lOO for the due performance
of the Contract.

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ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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