THE "Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers" are raised under the "Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Act of 1873."

They are subject to the provisions of that Act, and to all regulations made with regard to them by the autho rity of the Admiralty.

By Royal Proclamation, the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers may be assembled for actual service; and whenever so assembled, they will be liable to serve on board any of Her Majesty's ships or vessels employed in the defence of the coasts of the United Kingdom, or in any of the tenders or boats attached to such vessels.

They will also be liable to perform all the ordinary duties of the vessel in which they may be embarked in the same manner as those duties are performed by the regular crews of Her Majesty's ships, except those duties that can only be performed by practical seamen.

They will not be required to go aloft, or to attend the fires in the stoke-hole.

They will accommodate themselves to the berthing and messing arrangements usual for the Seamen of the Royal Navy.

A Corps is a body of persons who combine, under common rules, to form a part of the Naval Artillery Volunteer Force.

The members of a Corps are either enrolled or honorary.

Enrolled members are persons of every grade, whose names are duly entered for service in the muster-rolls of a Corps.

Honorary members are persons who contribute to the funds of a Corps, but are not enrolled for service.

The Naval Artillery Volunteer Force, for administra tive purposes will be formed into Brigades, and each Brigade will consist of four or more Batteries of from 60 to 80 men.

Each Brigade will be designated by a local name, in addition to its number in the Force.

Each Battery will be designated by its number in the Brigade.

Every Corps will bear a local name only.

The following table contains the authorised establishment for Brigades and the Batteries composing them :

In offering the services of a new Corps for acceptance it should be stated:

(a) The place proposed for its head-quarters.
(b) The number of persons who are prepared to
enrol themselves.

(e) The name and address of some person with
whom communications on the subject may be
made.

(d) The Brigade of which it will form a part.

(e) That a proper place will be secured for the safe custody of any Government arms and ammunition which may be issued.

The "Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Force" take precedence immediately after the "Royal Naval Volunteers," established by the Act of 1859.

Officers of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers rank with, but after, Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve of their respective ranks.

All Officers of the Royal Navy Artillery Volunteers will be commissioned by the Admiralty.

The Commanding Officers of Brigades will recommend, for the consideration of the Admiralty, names of persons for the appointments and promotion of officers in their Brigades.

In order to enable the Admiralty to judge the qualifications of the persons recommended, the Commanding Officer will forward, with his recommendation, a statement giving the name, age, residence, place of educa tion, and occupation or profession of the Candidate as well as a Medical Officer's Certificate, stating that the Candidate is in good health, and fit to perform the duties of an Officer.

If any person recommended for an appointment as an Officer holds a commission in the Royal Navy or other Force, the nature of such commission should be stated in the letter of recommendation.

Officers on Full Pay in the Navy or Army are not eligible for other than honorary commissions.

The appointment of an Honorary Commander to a Brigade is allowed, and such Honorary Lieutenants and Honorary Sub-Lieutenants as the Admiralty may think fit to sanction.

The appointments of an Honorary Chaplain and StaffSurgeon to a Brigade are allowed at the discretion of the Admiralty.

The appointments of all Honorary Officers will cease whenever the Force is called out for actual service, unless the Admiralty shall see fit to accept the services of any such Officers who may volunteer for active service.

Every Officer is required to possess a competent knowledge of his duties, and to give a proper attendance at the drills of his Corps.

No person below the age of 17 is to be enrolled in the Corps without the special authority of the Admiralty. Boys of 14 years of age and upwards may be enrolled for the purpose of being trained as Buglers.

The course to be adopted as to the Discipline of the Volunteers will be found in Part III. of the Naval Artillery Volunteers Act.

Officers and men of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, when in uniform, are to pay the customary marks of respect to such Officers of the Navy, Army, and Auxiliary Forces as are entitled to be saluted by Officers and men of corresponding rank in their own Service.

When Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers are assembled with the Regular Forces of the Army in Camp or for Training, they will be under the "Naval Discipline Act, 1866," in the same manner as if they were on actual service, and will be placed under the immediate command of an Officer of Her Majesty's Navy.

Camp rules will apply in all respects to the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers.

The Naval Volunteers must perform the Camp duties of fatigue, cooking, &c.

The drills of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers will comprise the drills for Great Guns, Rifle, Pistol, and Cutlass, as in the Royal Navy, and no deviation from those drills is to be permitted.

A Badge of Efficiency will be worn by men who were returned as "Etficient" in the last Annual Return of the Brigade.

for Foreign Affairs, either through the British Minister accredited to the Court of such Foreign Sovereign, or through His Minister accredited at the Court of Her Majesty.

4. If the service for which it is proposed to confer the Order has been performed during War, the Notifica tion required by the preceding Clause must be made not later than two years after the exchange of the Ratifications of a Treaty of Peace.

If the service has been performed in time of Peace, the Notification must be inade within two years after the date of such service.

5. After such Notification shall have been received, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall, if the case comes within the conditions prescribed by the present Regulations, and arises from naval or military Services before the Enemy, refer it to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, previously to taking Her Majesty's plea sure thereupon, in order to ascertain whether there be any objection to Her Majesty's permission being granted.

A similar reference shall also be made to the Commander-in-Chief, if the application relates to an Officer in the Army, or to the Lords of the Admiralty, if it relates to an Officer in the Navy.

6. When Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken the Queen's pleasure on any such application, and shall have obtained Her Majesty's permission for the person in whose favour it has been made to accept the Foreign Order, and wear the Insignia thereof, he shall signify the same to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, in order that he may cause the Warrant required by Clause 1 to be prepared for the Royal SignManual.

When such Warrant shall have been signed by the Queen, a notification thereof shall be inserted in the Gazette," stating the service for which the Foreign Order has been conferred.

7. The Warrant signifying Her Majesty's permission, may, at the request and at the expense of the person who has obtained it, be registered in the College of

Arms.

8. Every such Warrant as aforesaid shall contain a Clause providing that Her Majesty's license and permission does not authorize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of Her Majesty's Realms.

9. When a British Subject has received the Royal permission to accept a Foreign Order, he will at any future time be allowed to accept the Decoration of a higher class of the same order, to which he may have become eligible by increase of rank in the Foreign Service, or in the Service of his own country; or any other distinctive mark of honour strictly consequent upon the acceptance of the original Order, and common to every person upon whom such Order is conferred.

10. The preceding Clause shall not be taken to apply to Decorations of the Guelphic Order which were bestowed on British Subjects by Her Majesty's predecessors, King George IV. and King William IV., on whose heads the Crowns of Great Britain and of Hanover were united.

Decorations so bestowed cannot properly be considered as rewards granted by a Foreign Sovereign for services rendered according to the purport of Clause 2 of these Regulations. They must be rather considered as personal favours bestowed on British Subjects by British Sovereigns, and as having no reference to services rendered to the Foreign Crown of Hanover, Foreign Office, May 10th, 1855.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING FOREIGN MEDALS.

1. Applications for permission to accept and wear Medals which, not being the decoration of any Foreign Order, are conferred by a Foreign Sovereign on British Subjects in the Army or in the Navy, for military or for naval services should be addressed, as the case may be, to the Commander-in-Chief, or the Lords of the Admiralty, who, if they see fit, may submit the same to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, for Her Majesty's sanction; upon obtaining which they may grant such permission without any other formality.

2. Any British Subject is at liberty to accept and wear a Foreign Medal, not being the Decoration of a Foreign Order, bestowed by competent authority for acts of bravery in saving human life. An Officer, Soldier, Marine, or Sailor must, however, first obtain permission from the Commander-in-Chief, or the Lords of the Admiralty, as the case may be.

3. No permission is necessary for accepting a Foreign Medal, if such Medal is not to be worn. Foreign Office, Jan. 1870.

CLARENDON.

VICTORIA R.

Whereas, We, taking into Our Royal consideration that there exists no means of adequately rewarding the individual gallant services either of Officers of the lower grades in Our Naval and Military Service, or of Warrant and Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines, in our Navy, and Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers in Our Army; and whereas the Third Class of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath is limited, except in very rare cases, to the higher ranks of both Services, and the granting of medals, both in our Navy and Army, is only awarded for long service or meritorious conduct, rather than in bravery in action or distinction before an enemy, such cases alone excepted where a general medal is granted for a particular action or campaign, or a clasp added to the medal for some especial engagement, in both of which cases all share equally in the boon, and those who by their valour have particularly signalised themselves remain undistinguished from their comrades. Now, for the purpose of attaining an end so desirable as that of rewarding individual instances of merit and valour, We have instituted and created, and by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, institute and create a New Naval and Military Decoration, which We are desirous should be highly prized and eagerly sought after by the Officers and Men of Our Naval and Military Services, and are graciously pleased to make, ordain, and establish the following rules and ordinances for the government of the same, which shall from henceforth be inviolably observed and kept:

Firstly-It is ordained, that the distinction should be styled and designated "the Victoria Cross," and shall

consist of a Maltese Cross of Bronze, with our Royal Crest in the centre, and underneath which an escroll, bearing this inscription "For Valour."

Secondly. It is ordained that the Cross shall be suspended from the left breast by a blue riband for the Navy, and by a red riband for the Army.

Thirdly. It is ordained, that the names of those upon whom We may be pleased to confer the Decoration shall be published in the "London Gazette," and a registry thereof kept in the office of Our Secretary of State for War.

Fourthly.-It is ordained, that anyone who, after having received the Cross, shall again perform an act of bravery, which, if he had not received such Cross, would have entitled him to it, such further act shall be recorded by a Bar attached to the riband by which the Cross is suspended, and for every additional act of bravery an additional Bar may be added.

Fifthly. It is ordained, that the Cross shall only be awarded to those Officers or men who have served Us în the presence of the enemy, and shall have then performed some signal act of valour, or devotion to their country.

Sixthly.-It is ordained, with a view to place all persons on a perfectly equal footing in relation to eligibility for the Decoration, that neither rank, nor long service, nor wounds, nor any other circumstance or condition whatsoever, save the merit of conspicuous bravery, shall be held to establish a sufficient claim to the honour.

Seventhly. It is ordained, that the Decoration may be conferred on the spot where the act to be rewarded by the grant of such Decoration has been performed, under the following circumstanees:

I. When the Fleet or Army, in which such act has been performed, is under the eye and command of an Admiral or General Officer commanding the Forces.

II. Where the Naval or Military forces under the eye and command of an Admiral or Commodore commanding a squadron or detached naval force, or of a General commanding a corps, or division or brigade on a distant and detached service, when such Admiral, Commodore, or General Officer shall have the power of conferring the Decoration on the spot, subject to confirmation by Us.

Eighthly. It is ordained, where such act shall not have been performed in sight of a Commanding Officer as aforesaid, then the claimant for the honour shall prove the act to the satisfaction of the Captain or Officer commanding his ship, or to the Officer commanding the regiment to which the claimant belongs, and such Captain or such Commanding Officer shall report the same through the usual channel to the Admiral or Commodore commanding the force employed on the service, or to the Officer commanding the forces in the field, who shall call for such description and attestation of the act as he may think requisite, and on approval shall recom mend the grant of the Decoration.

Ninthly. It is ordained, that every person selected for the Cross, under rule seven, shall be publicly decorated before the Naval or Military force or body to which he belongs, and with which the act of bravery for which he is to be rewarded shall have been performed, and his name shall be recorded in a General Order, together with the cause of his especial distinction.

Tenthly.-It is ordained that every person selected under rule eight shall receive his Decoration as soon as possible, and his name shall likewise appear in a General Order as above required, such General Order to be issued by the Naval or Military Commander of the Forces employed on the service.

Eleventhly.-It is ordained that the General Orders above referred to shall from time to time be transmitted to Our Secretary of State for War, to be laid before Us, and shall be by him registered.

Twelfthly. It is ordained that as cases may arise not falling within the rules above specified, or in which a claim, though well founded, may not have been estab lished on the spot, We will, on the joint submission of Our Secretary of State for War and of Our Commanderin-Chief of Our Army, or on that of Our Lord High Admiral or Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in the case of the Navy, confer the Decoration, but never without conclusive proof of the performance of the act of bravery for which the claim is made.

Thirteenthly.-It is ordained that, in the event of a gallant and daring act having been performed by a squadron, ship's company, a detached body of Seamen

and Marines not under fifty in number, or by a brigade, regiment, troop, or company, in which the Admiral, General, or other Officer commanding such forces, may deem that all are equally brave and distinguished, and that no special selection can be made by them; then, in such case, the Admiral, General, or other Officer commanding, may direct, that for any such body of Seamen or Marines, or for every troop or company of Soldiers, one Officer shall be selected by the Officers engaged for the Decoration; and in like manner one Petty Officer or NonCommissioned Officer shall be selected by the Petty Officers and Non-commissioned Officers engaged; and two Seamen or Private Soldiers, or Marines, shall be selected by the Seamen, or Private Soldiers, or Marines, engaged respectively, for the Decoration; and the names of those selected shall be transmitted by the Senior Officer in command of the Naval force, brigade, regiment, troop, or company, to the Admiral or General Officer commanding, who shall in due manner confer the Decoration as if the acts were done under his own eye.

Fourteenthly. It is ordained that every Warrant Officer, Petty Officer, Seaman, or Marine, or Non-commissioned Officer or Soldier, who shall have received the Cross shall, from the date of the act by which the Decoration has been gained, be entitled to a Special Pension of Ten Pounds a year, and each additional Bar conferred under rule four on such Warrant or Petty Officers, or Non-commissioned Officers or Men, shall carry with it an Additional Pension of Five Pounds per annum.

Fifteenthly. In order to make such additional provi sion as shall effectually preserve pure this most honearable distinction, it is ordained, that if any person on whom such distinction shall be conferred, be convicted of treason, cowardice, felony, or of any infamous crime, or if he be accused of any such offence and doth not after a reasonable time surrender himself to be tried for the same, his name shall forthwith be erased from the registry of individuals upon whom the said Decoration shall have been conferred by an especial Warrant under Our Royal Sign Manual, and the Pension conferred under rule fourteen shall cease and determine from the date of such Warrant. It is hereby further declared that We, Our Heirs and Successors, shall be the sole judges of the circumstance demanding such expulsion; moreover, We shall at all times have power to restore such persons as may at any time have been expelled, both to the enjoy ment of the Decoration and Pension.

Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this twentyninth of January, in the nineteenth year of Our reign and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

By Her Majesty's Command,

PANMURE.

Admiralty, 28th August 1877.

REGULATIONS AS TO WEARING MEDALS, &c. Her Majesty has approved of the following Regulations for the Navy :-

1. Decorations and Medals are to be worn in Full Dress.

2. Miniature Orders and Medals, or Ribands only, may only be worn by Officers in the Undress Uniform."

3. Decorations and Medals are to be worn on the left breast, in a single horizontal line, suspended from a single bar, placed on a line one inch below the point of the shoulder, but no part of the bar or buckle is to be

seen.

The Buckle of the Companionship of the Bath, however, being part of the decoration, is to be shown.

The Riband is not to exceed one inch in length, unless the number of clasps requires it to be longer.

4. When the Décorations and Medals cannot, on account of the number, be suspended from the bar so as to be fully seen, they are to overlap.

5. Medals will be worn in the order of the dates on which they were conferred, the first Decoration or Medal obtained being placed farthest from the shoulder. The following is the order of arrangement:

1. English Decorations.

2. English Medals.

3. Foreign Decorations. 4. Foreign Medals.

The Medal for long service and good conduct is to be worn after the War Medal.

6. Medals granted to Petty Officers and Seamen may either be worn as indicated in the foregoing paragraphs, or be stitched in a straight horizontal line on the jacket or frock.

7. When Ribands only are worn, they must be half-aninch in length.

8. Medals awarded by a Society for bravery in saving human life are, if specially authorized, to be worn on the right breast. By Command of their Lordships, VERNON LUSHINGTON.

WARRANT extending the two DECORATIONS styled respectively "THE ALBERT MEDAL OF THE FIRST CLASS" and "THE ALBERT MEDAL OF THE SECOND CLASS" to cases of Gallantry in saving life on land.

VICTORIA R.

VICTORIA by the Grace of God, of the United King. dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:

WHEREAS a Warrant was given under Our Royal Sign Manual, bearing date the 7th March 1866, in the 20th year of Our reign, "instituting a new decoration to be styled 'The Albert Medal,'" and such Warrant was in the terms following, that is to say:

"VICTORIA R.

"Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:

"Whereas We, taking into Our Royal consideration that great loss of life is sustained by reason of shipwrecks and other perils of the sea; and taking also into consideration the many daring and heroic actions per formed by mariners and others to prevent such loss and to save the lives of those who are in danger of perishing by reason of wrecks and perils of the sea; and taking also into consideration the expediency of distinguishing such efforts by some mark of Our Royal favour:

"Now for the purpose of attaining an end so desirable as that of rewarding such actions as aforesaid, We have instituted and created, and by these presents for Us, our heirs and successors, institute and create, a new Decoration, which We are desirous should be highly prized and eagerly sought after, and are graciously pleased to make, ordain, and establish the following rules and ordinances for the government of the same, which shall from henceforth be inviolably observed and kept.

"First.-It is ordained that the distinction shall be styled 'The Albert Medal,' and shall consist of a gold oval-shaped badge or decoaation enamelled in dark blue, with a Monogram composed of the letters V. and A., interlaced with an Anchor erect in gold, surrounded with a Garter in bronze, inscribed in raised letters of gold For Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea,' and surmounted by a representation of the Crown of His Royal Highness the laraented Prince Consort, and suspended from a dark blue riband of five-eighths of an inch in width with two white longitudinal stripes.

"Secondly. It is ordained, that the Medal shall be suspended from the left breast.

"Thirdly.-It is ordained, that the names of those upon whom We may be pleased to confer the Decoration shall be published in the London Gazette,' and a registry thereof kept in the Office of the Board of Trade.

Fourthly.-It is ordained, that anyone who, after having received the Medal, again performs an act which, if he had not received such Medal, would have entitled him to it, such further act shall be recorded by a bar attached to the riband by which the Medal is suspended; and for every such additional act an additional bar may be added.

"Fifthly.It is ordained, that the Medal shall only be awarded to those, who, after the date of this instrument, have, in saving or endeavouring to save the lives of others from shipwreck or other peril of the sea, endangered their own lives, and that such award shall be made only on a recommendation to Us by the President of the Board of Trade.

"Sixthly.-In order to make such additional provision as shall effectually preserve pure this most honourable Distinction, it is ordained, that if any person on whom such Distinction is conferred be guilty of any crime or disgraceful conduct which in Our judgment disqualifies him for the said Decoration, his name shall forthwith be erased from the registry of individuals upon whom the said Decoration shall have been conferred by an especial Warrant under Our Royal Sign

Manual, and his Medal shall be forfeited. And every person to whom the said Medal is given, shall, before receiving the same, enter into an engagement to return the same if his name shall be so erased as aforesaid under this regulation. It is hereby further declared, that We, Our heirs and successors, shall be the sole judges of the circumstance demanding such expulsion. Moreover, We shall at all times have power to restore such persons as may at any time have been expelled to the enjoyment of the Decoration."

And whereas a Warrant was given under Our Royal Sign Manual, bearing date the 12th day of April 1867 in the 30th year of Our reign, intituled a Warrant revoking a Warrant dated the 7th day of March 1866, instituting a new Decoration to be styled "The Albert Medal," and instituting in lieu thereof two new Decorations, to be styled respectively "The Albert Medal of the First Class," and "The Albert Medal of the Second Class:" And whereas the Warrant of the 12th day of April 1867, after reciting the said Warrant of the 7th day of March 1866, proceeded as follows:

"And whereas it has been represented to Us, that mariners and others perform many acts in preventing loss of life from shipwreck and other perils of the sea, that are not of a character sufficiently daring and heroic to bring them under Our warrant above cited, and are yet worthy of some distinguishing mark of Our Royal favour. And whereas We, taking into our consideration that it is expedient to reward such mariners and others who perform heroic actions to prevent loss of life from shipwreck and other perils of the sea, are pleased, in place of the Decoration created by Our Warrant of the 7th March 1866, to institute and create two Decorations, which We are desirous should be highly prized and eagerly sought after, and are graciously pleased to make, ordain, and establish the following Rules and Ordinances for the government of the same, which shall from henceforth be inviolably observed and kept.

"First.-It is ordained, that one of the said two Decorations shall be styled The Albert Medal of the First Class, and shall consist of a gold oval-shaped Badge or Decoration, enamelled in dark blue, with a Monogram composed of the letters V. and A., interlaced with an Anchor erect in gold, surrounded with a Garter in bronze, inscribed in raised letters of gold, Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea,' and surmounted by a representation of the Crown of His Royal Highness the lainented Prince Consort, and suspended from a dark blue riband of an inch and three-eighths in width, with four white longitudinal stripes.

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"Secondly. It is ordained, that the other of the two Distinctions shall be styled The Albert Medal of the Second Class,' and shall consist of the like shaped enamelled Badge, save and except in this class it shall be entirely worked in bronze, instead of gold and bronze, and suspended from a dark blue,riband of five-eighths of an inch in width, with two white longitudinal stripes. "It is ordained, that each Medal shall be suspended from the left breast.

"Thirdly. It is ordained that the names of those upon whom We may be pleased to confer either of these Decorations shall be published in the 'London Gazette,' and a registry thereof kept in the Office of the Board of Trade.

"Fourthly. It is ordained, that anyone who, after having received either of the Medals, again performs an act which, if he had not received such Medal, would have entitled him to it, such further act shall be recorded by a bar attached to the riband by which the Medal is suspended; and for every such additional act an additional bar may be added.

"Fifthly. It is ordained, that the Medals shall only be awarded to those who, after the date of the said Warrant of the 7th March 1866, have in saving or endeavouring to save the lives of others from shipwreck or other peril of the sea, endangered their own lives, and that such award shall be made only on a recommendation to Us by the President of the Board of Trade.

"Sixthly. It is ordained, that The Albert Medal of the First Class shall be confined to cases of extreme and heroic daring, and that The Albert Medal of the Second