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London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

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
ba 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 Rules, 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 futuro furlough, be limited, as to
allowance, to the lower maximum rate of £I 000 per
annum. _

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XXXI. Any officer now absent on leave, who has no
appointment, may, on his return, and until he again holds
an appointment carrying equal pay to that of the substan-
tive appointment which he last held, draw the subsistence
allowance of his rank, together with 75 per cent. of the
pay of any appointment in which lie 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 80 per cent. on

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
ire as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48 Church-street, Stoko
Newington.
town. Camden-street, Camden-
Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland• street. with.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ale deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to ref nse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, ‘4I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent,. DANL. CON'EI, BEM.
185 Queen-§treet, Cliorside.