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London, England, 1812-03-20 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY =OFFICE, March 9, 1812.
NEW ESTABLISHMENT OF PAY AND HALF-PAY

FOR NAVY CHAPLAINS.

THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS for EXE-
CUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOMS of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, That his Royal Highness the
Panics REGENT has been graciously pleased, by his Order in
Council of the 4t!, inst. in the name and on the behalf of his Ma-
jesty, to direct, that the following Regulations, in respect to
the Half-Pay or Pension to be allowed to Chaplains of his Ma.
jesty's Fleet, after long and meritorious Strvice, as well as the
Pay and Allowances during the period of such servitude, shall
be established in future, viz.

" Ist. That every Ship in his Majesty's Navy, from a First to
a Fiftb Rate Inclusive, shaU be allowed a Chaplain on her Esta-
blishment.

" 2d. That every Chaplain after Eight Years of actual Sea
Service, (or if in a Guard Ship, Ten Years,) during which period
be shall hot have been absent from his duty six weeks at any one
hone, escoptte. epeeist leave from the Board of Admiralty, and
.wbo shall produce Certificates of good conduct and moral beha-
viour from the Captains he may have served under, shall he en-
titled to a Pension in the nature of Half-Pay; but no Chaplain
to be entitled to Half-Pay or Pension if he shall accept any Pre-
ferment with Cure of Souls during the term of his required Ser-
vice at Sea.

" 3d. That the amount of this Pension or Half-Pay to each
Chaplain shall be Five Shillings per Day.
" 4th. That If in the event of a Peace, or from other circum-
stances not depending on himself, a Chaplain shall not have been
able to complete the full Servitude of Eight Years, a Pension may
be conferred by the Board of Admiralty according to a scale to
be determined on, proportionate to the term of Service, in no
case, however, to be granted for less than Three Yuan Service
at Sea.

" sth. That on the expiration of the period of eight (or ten)
years, as the case may be, every Chaplain shall give notice in
writing, whether it is his intention to continue to serve or not ;
in the first case, every year's additional Service shall entitle him,
when place 4 on the Pension List, to receive at the rate of Six-
pence a day in addition to the Pension which his eight (or ten)
years servitude may have entitled him to, until the aggre-
gate rate amounts to Ten Shillings a day, being the greatest
Pension which any length of Service can confer ; in the second
case, where no further Service is intended, the Petition shall re•
main at Five Shillings a day as above- mentioned.
" 6th. That length of Service and meritorioes Conduct shall
render Chaplains eligible to all the Chaplaincies of all Naval
Establishments whatever, the disposal of which shall, or may be,
left to the consideration of the Board of Admiralty; and that no
other Clergyman shall be eligible to any of those pieces of pre-
ferment, than a Navy Chaplain ; and that the Presentation to any
of those pieces of Preferment, whose emoluments may amount
to Four Hundred Pounds per Annum, shall cause the Half-Pay
of the respective Chaplains to cease, as is provided by Law in the
case of the divided Living of Simonbourn '
" 7th: That the Pay of a Chaplain, while in actual Service,
shall be according to the following Rate, viz.
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" One Hundred and Pifty Pounds per Annum,,and the esta-
blished compensation of Xi i. 8.5. a year for a Servant, in each
Rate, and to have a Cabin allotted for him, in the Ward-room,
or Gun-room, where he is to Mess with the lieutenants and to be
rated for V.ctuals : and when the Chaplain shall be willing to act
as Schoolmaster, be shall be entitled to the Bounty of Twenty
Pounds a year, granted by her late Majesty Queen Anne, by her
Oider In Council, of the 21st April, 1702, provided be shall pass
an rumination before the Lieutenant Governor, Professor, and
Preceptor of the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, instead of
at the Trinity House, as required by the above-mentioned Order
in Council; and he hall be further entitled to Five Pounds per
Annum, to be paid to bins by every young Midshipman and Vo-
lunteer of the first class, as a remuneration for his Education,
the same to be stepped out of the said young Gentleman's Pay.

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" Bth. That a Chaplain General shall be ap with such
Emoluments as may be deemed proper by thud of Admi-
ralty, to whom all applications for Appointments shall be made,
or will be referred, and all Regulations entrusted, relating to the
Establishment of Chaplains for the Royal Navy, in the same man-
ner as is practised with regard to Army Chaplains.
" 9th. That no Warrant will be granted by the Board of Ad-
miralty, to any Candidate for an Apointment, unless recom-
mended by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the
Bishop of London, through the Chaplain General, as in every
way properly qualified.
" loth. That Chaplains now serving in the Navy, who may
upon due examination be deemed proper to be continued, shall
be allowed the time they may have served, as part (not exceeding
one half) of that required to entitle them to the Passion or
, Hall-Psys" By Cocumaud 6f their Lordships.
J. W. CROKE,.

N. 13. The Rev. Archdeacon John Owen, has bred aPPbintel
Chaplain Galeria to the Firot, to inborn s 0 letter are to be ad.
&mad. sager saver to the iserstry of the Modisky.