ORDER IN COUNCIL, No. 5.-C.

At the Court at Windsor,

The 3rd day of March 1873.

Present:

The QUEEN'S most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 1st of March 1873, in the words following, viz.:

"Whereas we have had under consideration the state of the Active List of Paymasters and Assistant Paymasters in Your Majesty's Fleet; and whereas we are of opinion that, in order to increase the efficiency of those Lists, and to maintain a steady and more equal flow of promotion, it is necessary to reduce the Active List below the numbers laid down by Your Majesty's Order in Council of 22nd February 1870, the numbers now borne being in access of the requirements of Your Majesty's Service; we would, therefore humbly propose to Your Majesty

"1. That paragraphs three and four of section six of Your Majesty's said Order in Council of 22nd February 1870 be cancelled.

"2. That the Active List of Paymasters, including Secretaries, be reduced to two hundred.

"3. That the Active List of Assistant Paymasters, Clerks, and Assistant Clerks, be reduced to two hundred and thirty.

"4. That until the Active List of Paymasters shall have been reduced to the numbers proposed, Paymasters, of whatever age, be retired, with their consent and at our discretion, on the terms laid down in Your Majesty's said Order in Council of 22nd February 1870.

"5. That until the Active Lists of Assistant Paym Clerks, and Assistant Clerks, shall have be duced to the numbers proposed, Assistant masters be retired, with their consent and discretion

"(a.) If under three years' standing, with

of two shillings and sixpence per diem "(b.) If of three years' standing, with th lings and sixpence per diem, an add sixpence per diem being given for ead plete year beyond three, served as As Paymaster, until the maximum is a viz., six shillings per diem, these bef same terms as those laid down in Ye jesty's said Order in Council of 22nd F 1870.

"6. That until the list of Paymasters shall hat reduced to the number proposed, we be emp to promote to the rank of Paymaster, in the cies caused by death or compulsory retireme exceeding ten in any one year; but that int of voluntary retirement no promotion made.

"We beg that Your Majesty will be graciously, to sanction these arrangements, which have rece concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of Y jesty's Treasury."

Her Majesty, having taken the said Memoriali sideration, was pleased, by and with the advice Privy Council, to approve of what is therein and the Right Honourable the Lords Commissa the Admiralty are to give the necessary direction accordingly.

(Signed)

EDMUND HALE

ORDER IN COUNCIL, No. 15.-C.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight,
The 9th day of August 1872.
Present:

The QUEEN'S most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 1st August 1872, in the words following, viz.:

"Whereas Your Majesty was graciously pleased, by Your Order in Council of the 5th February 1872, to estab lish Regulations for the Retirement of Sub-Lieutenants of Your Majesty's Navy; and whereas, having had under our consideration the present state of the Active List of Navigating Sub-Lieutenants, we are of opinion that it is necessary to establish Regulations for the Retirement of Officers in this rank, we would therefore humbly submit to Your Majesty the following proposals:

1. Navigating Sub-Lieutenants to be compulsorily retired at the age of forty, or at any age if physically unfit for service.

"2. Retired Pay to be granted as follows: after three years' seniority, 3s. 6d. per diem, an additional od, being given for each complete year beyond three served as Na vigating Sub-Lieutenant until the maximum is reached, viz., 08. per diem.

"3. Officers who, in our opinion, are not deserving of receiving Retired Pay on the above scale, to be granted such lower rate of Pay as we may think fit to award them.

"4. Service for Retired Pay to be calculated in accord

ance with the Provisions of Your Majesty's! Council of 22nd February 1870, relating to Nst Officers, &c.; time during which a Navigating t tenant may be on Half-pay, after he has serv years in that rank, to reckon in the proportion! the said Order in Council.

"5. Navigating Sub-Lieutenants to be allowed own request and with our consent, to commu Retired Pay under the rules laid down by the Lor missioners of Your Majesty's Treasury for admits the Act 34 and 35 Vict. cap 56.

"6. The existing rules as to Half-Pay to No Sub-Lieutenants while on the Active List to t

force.

"7. We would humbly submit to Your Majest above Regulations be sanctioned, and we allowed to apply the same to Navigating Sable George Horwood, who has served for 41 ye months in Your Majesty's Navy, and who was from Your Majesty's Coastguard Service in 1 on attaining the age of 60, from the date of his charge.

"We beg that Your Majesty will be grachts to sanction these arrangements, which have re concurrence of the Lords Commissioners d I jesty's Treasury."

Her Majesty having taken the said Memorisi sideration, was pleased, by and with the adv Privy Council, to approve of what is there. and the Right Honourable the Lords Comm the Admiralty are to give the necessary dira“--accordingly.

(Signed)

ORDER IN COUNCIL, No. 16.-C. The Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, The 9th day of August 1872.

Present:

QUEEN'S most Excellent Majesty in Council. sat there was this day read at the Board a Memothe Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners Amiralty, dated the 7th of August 1872, in the Towing, viz.:

That we have had under our consideration the of Inspectors-General and Deputy Inspectors.

Hospitals and Fleets in Your Majesty's Fleet, devace to the provisions of Your Majesty's Order cfnd February 1870, and especially to the that Service shall mean Service on Full-pay; Gas Inspectors-General are not called upon to inharge of Naval Hospitals at home; and provided by the Order in Council of the 7th that no Deputy Inspector-General of Hos. Fleets shall be promoted to the rank of Ineral of Hospitals and Fleets, unless he shall

have served five years as a Deputy Inspector-General, during three years of which period he shall have been in charge of a Foreign Hospital, or of a Fleet or Squadron; and whereas a Deputy Inspector-General cannot serve otherwise than in the capacities mentioned, except in charge of a Naval Hospital at home; and whereas the service of any Inspector-General or Deputy InspectorGeneral in charge of a Naval Hospital at home or abroad, though not Service on Full-pay, is upon salary equal thereto, we are of opinion that Service by any InspectorGeneral or Deputy Inspector-General in charge of a Naval Hospital at home or abroad should be held to be Service for the purposes of the said Order in Council of the 22nd February 1870; and we humbly beg that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to give directions accordingly.'

Her Majesty, having taken the said Memorial into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve of what is therein proposed; and the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. (Signed) ARTHUR HELPS.

CIRCULAR No. 12.-C.W.

Admiralty, 6th March 1875.

CAL OFFICERS OF THE NAVY. Lommissioners of the Admiralty having had iraleration the position of the Medical Sury, are pleased, under the authority of der in Council of 4th February 1875, to the flowing regulations:

t entry to have the same relative rank Macers, Chief Engineers, and Naval In

, amely, to rank with Lieutenants under yan seniority, and to wear uniform coranding to such relative rank.

gens to be denominated "Fleet Surgeons," aff Surgeons Second Class simply "Staff

"the distinction in rank between these des to be denoted by a small difference in rm of the Staff Surgeon, who, instead of eries of gold lace round the sleeve of the at, which the Fleet Surgeon will wear, will wear tripes of gold lace with a stripe of narrow brid between.

or-General to be compulsorily retired at the 4, to be allowed 21. per day, provided they have completed the period of service now ired to entitle them to the maximum Half-pay rank: should they not have completed such d of service, they will be retired at the rate of ter Retired Pay specified in the Order in df Feb. 1870.

By Inspectors-General to be compulsorily retired in the first six of their rank, to be allowed

338., others 30s. per diem, provided that they shall have completed the period of service now required to entitle them to the maximum Half-pay of their rank; should they not have completed such period of service they will be retired at the rate of Half or Retired Pay specified in the Order in Council of 22 Feb. 1870.

5. Fleet Surgeons and Staff Surgeons to be placed on the same scale of retirement as Chaplains and Naval Instructors, Secretaries, and Paymasters; that is, the maximum to be 4501. per year instead of

4007.

6. Fleet Surgeons to have the option of retiring after 20 years' Full-pay service in all ranks at 158. per day and after 25 years' Full-pay service at 218., subject in each case to their Lordships' approval, but of those now on the list not more than 10 to retire under this clause in each year (the Officers having the option according to seniority), unless their Lordships should approve (with the consent of the Treasury) of a larger number so retiring. Applications from Officers wishing to retire under this clause should be lodged at the Admiralty before the 30th November in each year, in order that they may be dealt with, according to seniority, before the end of the year.

7. All Medical Officers hereafter entered to have the option of so retiring, subject to the approval of their Lordships in each case.

By Command of their Lordships,

To all Commanders-in-Chief, &c.

ROBERT HALL.

Candether Warrant Officers holding appointments
Fr Majesty's Yard, if not entitled to civil superan-

All be allowed to count such service as
Uficer's time towards pension, on the above

In the rest of the above-mentioned officers having juries on duty not nearly equivalent to the adam or being disabled by sickness contracted the were, and not from want of proper care on their perease of not more than 101. a year may Thatever Retiring Allowance may be awarded take the foregoing seale, provided they have received compensation for the same.

rs and minor injuries received on duty, all be granted under Article 16 of the Penbons, at the discretion of the Admiralty, the sore increase.

Pessions, or gratuities in excess of the forefor service may, at the discretion of the y, be awarded when special services have been repiring special reward; and such lower rates as the Admiralty may think proper may

be granted to officers who have been guilty of misconduct.

Time during which an officer shall not have maintained a good character in the ships in which he has served shall not be allowed to reckon as service for Pension.

Chief Gunners, Chief Boatswains, Chief Carpenters, and Warrant Officers may, in such cases as it may be for their advantage, be pensioned on the scale for seamen, their service in the above ranks being allowed to reckon as superior petty time.

Chief Gunners, Chief Boatswains, Chief Carpenters, and Warrant Officers who have been dismissed from Her Majesty's service for what may be considered venial offences in the case of seamen, may, at the discretion of the Admiralty, and under the Provisions of Order in Council of 5th February 1850, be allowed Naval Pensions on the seamen's scale, provided they have twenty-one years' service, or are from age or other causes unfit for service as seamen in the Navy.

In such cases the time served as Warrant Officers may be allowed to reckon as superior single petty time.

the Pensions are awarded to Flag Officers and the Royal Navy under the provisions of Gail of 12th July 1837, 27th April 1812, y 1870, 9th August 1872, and 5th May 1873; cers under the provisions of Order in 1th May 1830; to General Officers of Marines The provisions of Orders in Council of 12th July April 192, 22nd February and 31st March Canels and Lieutenant-Colonels of Royal or the provisions of Order in Council of 27th Da

the provisions of these Orders in Council the we have been established:

,19 Pensions of 300l. a year each (the ining that two may be held by Vice-Adtwo by Rear-Admirals qualified for

1507.

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Kitesels, R.M. Pensions shall not be held in addition to any rs, unless it shall be a Pension conferred for rjuries received in the Service. Fagfects and Captains, Royal Navy, and Lientenant-Colonels, Royal Marines, on the tall be eligible for the award of Good Service

neb Pensions may be granted to Medical ed to General Officers of Royal Marines, whether Actre, Reserved, or Retired Lists.

rice Pensions shall be awarded to Flag Officers

for distinguished service at sea, and in detheir claims, preference shall be given, in cases callantry, to officers who have commanded action against the enemy.

and General Officers of Royal Marines in these Pensions shall be allowed to retain them tind, but, in the case of Flag Officers, if the Fay and Good Service Pension together exceed

the Half Pay of an Admiral of the Fleet, the Retired Pay shall be reduced so as to make the two together equal to that amount.

Captains retired from the rank shall be allowed to receive, in Retired Pay together with Good Service Pension, a sum not exceeding 600l. a year; but, should the two together exceed that sum, they will be retired on 000Z., relinquishing their Good Service Pension.

Captains, Royal Navy, and Colonels and LieutenantColonels, Royal Marines, shall forfeit their Good Service Pensions on promotion to be Flag, or General Officers, on the Active List.

Should any Flag Officers holding a Good Service Pension be in receipt of, or be appointed to, Full Pay (not including service on committees, or any temporary employment of a like nature) or Civil Salary, or become entitled to a Civil Pension, exceeding the value of his Good Service Pension, the latter Pension shall be suspended so long as he receives such Pay, or Salary, or Civil Pension; and the vacancy thus occasioned may be filled up; but, as a rule, it is not intended that more than one such supernumerary Pension shall be in existence at the same time.

When such employment shall have ceased, the officer shall resume his Good Service, Pension, although the List be full, but in such case the next vacancy shall not be filled up.

A Captain, however, shall be allowed to draw his Good Service Pension irrespective of the receipt of Full or Half Pay or Civil Salary.

Captains, Royal Navy, and Colonels, Royal Marines, shall not be allowed to retain their Good Service Pensions when promoted on the Active List; and a Flag Officer shall give up his Good Service Pension if he become Governor of Greenwich Hospital or Naval Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty.

A Naval Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty deriving emolument from his office shall not be allowed to hold any Pension, unless it be a pension conferred for wounds or injuries received in the Service.

An Admiral of the Fleet shall not be allowed to hold any Pension, unless it be a Pension conferred for wounds or injuries received in the Service.

At the Court at Windsor,

The 22nd day of February 1870.
Present:

The QUEEN'S most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 19th of February 1870, in the words following, viz. :

"Whereas We are of opinion that it will greatly tend towards the efficiency of Your Majesty's Service were We empowered to introduce certain alterations into the existing system of Promotion and Retirement of Officers in Your Majesty's Royal Marine Forces: We would, therefore, venture to submit to Your Majesty the following propositions :

"That the system of compulsory retirement be extended to all the higher grades, so as to cause a more even and constant flow of promotion;

"That a scheme of retirement be established on a scale more liberal than that now existing, and more duly proportioned to the length of the service of Officers.

"Should Your Majesty be pleased to approve of these Our propositions, We would humbly submit that the same should take effect from the 1st of April 1870.

"As relates to Officers of the Royal Marines. "1. There shall be a fixed establishment of twelve General Officers of Royal Marines, to be appointed as follows:

To the Artillery Branch:

5. All officers to be retired irrespective of age, discretion, if physically unfit to serve.

serve.

at Our

"6. Power to be reserved to Us to suspend at any time, and with respect to any rank, the provisions of the order under which an Officer may at his option retire, at an age less than that fixed for compulsory retirement in each rank.

7. Officers retired at an age earlier than that fixed for optional retirement to receive such rates of retired pay as We may deem proper in each case, not being less in amount than the sum fixed as the maximum for the next lower grade.

8. An officer placed upon the retired list in no case to be replaced on the active list.

9. An officer placed on the retired list may receive a step of honorary rank at his own request, and with Our

"15. Good service pensions to be six in nur.-* be distributed amongst General Officers, whet active or retired list. These pensions to be of of 2001. a year each, and to be held for life. It ments of the officers at present holding the i of Colonels of Divisions to be deemed to i Service Pensions.

[See Pension Regulations, 1st July 1876.] 16. A General Officer to receive the pay Commandant.

"17. A Colonel Commandant, either on *** years of age, or at the expiration of his con placed on a reserved list with the pay of tool P and, while on that list, to be eligible for pe the fixed list of General Officers in his turn. I the age of 65 without being so promoted, to le to the retired list.

"18. An Officer retired may, at his own r with Our consent, compound his retired per rules laid down by the Lords Commission Majesty's Treasury for administering Aut+ cap. 32.

19. No pension, except a pension for wor compounded.

20. General Officers now on the list to be r on retired pay, equal in amount to their prom ments, but not to receive a Good Service addition to their emoluments as Colonel of a it "21. Colonels Commandant now on the command dates from on or before 27th Ju receive, when placed on the reserved list, the their present pay.

22. Captains now on the list of 25 years' to be compulsorily retired until the at Paymasters and Barrackmasters now! appointments not to be compulsorily retirsi age of 60.