RETIREMENT OF NAVIGATING SUB-LIEUTENANTS. ORDER IN COUNCIL, No. 15.-C. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 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 establish 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 6d, being given for each complete year beyond three served as Navigating Sub-Lieutenant until the maximum is reached, viz., 6s. 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 Order in Council of 22nd February 1870, relating to Navigating Officers, &c.; time during which a Navigating Sub-Lieu. tenant may be on Half-pay, after he has served three years in that rank, to reckon in the proportion fixed by the said Order in Council. "5. Navigating Sub-Lieutenants to be allowed, at their own request and with our consent, to commute their Retired Pay under the rules laid down by the Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury for administering the Act 34 and 35 Vict. cap 56. "6. The existing rules as to Half-Pay to Navigating Sub-Lieutenants while on the Active List to remain in force. "7. We would humbly submit to Your Majesty that the above Regulations be sanctioned, and we further be allowed to apply the same to Navigating Sub-Lieutenant George Horwood, who has served for 41 years and 9 months in Your Majesty's Navy, and who was discharged from Your Majesty's Coastguard Service in July 1871, on attaining the age of 60, from the date of his said discharge. "We beg that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to sanction these arrangements, which have received the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury." 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. SERVICE OF INSPECTORS AND DEPUTY INSPECTORS OF HOSPITALS. ORDER IN COUNCIL, No. 16.-C. 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 7th of August 1872, in the words following, viz.: "Whereas we have had under our consideration the position of Inspectors-General and Deputy InspectorsGeneral of Hospitals and Fleets in Your Majesty's Fleet, with reference to the provisions of Your Majesty's Order in Council of 2nd February 1870, and especially to the provisions that Service shall mean Service on Full-pay; and whereas Inspectors-General are not called upon to serve except in charge of Naval Hospitals at home; and whereas it is provided by the Order in Council of the 7th August 1800 that no Deputy Inspector-General of Hos. pitals and Fleets shall be promoted to the rank of Inspector-General 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. ARTHUR HELPS. (Signed) RETIREMENT OF MEDICAL OFFICERS. No. 1.-C.W. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 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 first of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the words following: "Whereas we have had under our consideration the position of the Medical Officers of Your Majesty's Navy, and whereas we are of opinion that it will be for the benefit of Your Majesty's Service that the following Regulations shall be established, we beg to submit them most humbly for Your Majesty's approval: "1. That surgeons on entry shall have the same relative rank as Paymasters, Chief Engineers, and Naval Instructors, namely, shall rank with Lieutenants under eight years' seniority, and shall have uniform corresponding to such relative rank. "2. That Staff Surgeons shall be denominated 'Fleet Surgeons,' and Staff Surgeons Second Class simply 'Staff Surgeons;' the distinction in rank between these two grades to be denoted by a small difference in the uniform. "3. That Inspectors-General shall be compulsorily retired at the age of 60; on 21, per day, provided they shall have completed the period of service now required to entitle them to the maximum Half-pay of their rank. "4. That Deputy Inspectors-General shall be comptalsorily retired at 60; if in the first six of their rank, at 338. per day, others at 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. "5. That Fleet Surgeons and Staff Surgeons shall 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 4001. "6. That any Fleet Surgeon shall have the option of retiring after twenty years' Full-pay service in all ranks at 15s. per day, and after twenty-five years' service at 218., subject in each case to our approval; but that of those now on the list not more than ten shall retire under this clause in each year (the Officers having the option according to seniority), unless we should approve (with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury) of a larger number so retiring. "7. That of the Medical Officers to be hereafter entered, all shall have the option of so retiring, subject to our approval in each case. "And we beg leave to represent to Your Majesty that the Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in the proposed arrangements." Her Majesty having taken the said Memorial into And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners PROMOTION OF ENGINEERS. FLEET CIRCULAR No. 40.-N. Admiralty, 9th December 1880. Altering part of Article 267, Queen's Regulations. My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are pleased to direct that Article 267 of the Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions be cancelled, and that the following article be substituted for it. " Earlier Promotion for Proficiency. "267. Engineers and Assistant Engineers who hold or who may obtain First Class Professional Certificates from the Royal Naval College, or who hold Diplomas of the First Class of the Royal School of "Naval Architecture, shall be promoted to Chief "who hold or may obtain Second Class Professional "provided that in all cases they shall have conducted RETIREMENT OF ENGINEERS. EXTRACT FROM CIRCULAR 18 C.W.or ENGINEER OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. I. As relates to Chief Inspectors of Machinery. Number to remain as at present, but their Full-pay to be increased from 11. 58. to 11. 128. a day, their Half-pay from 168. to 188. a day, and the maximum of their retired pay to be also increased from 4501. as at present to 5001. a year. All confirmed Junior Service from the age of 20 to count for retired pay according to the Scale given in Her Majesty's Order in Council of 22nd February 1870, II. As relates to Inspectors of Machinery. Their half-pay to be increased from 16s. to 178. a day, and all confirmed Junior Service from the age of 20 to count for retired pay according to the Scale given in Her Majesty's Order in Council of 22nd February 1870. III. As relates to Chief Engineers. No Chief Engineer to receive less retired pay than he would have been entitled to if he had continued to be Engineer up to the date of his retirement. Chief Engineers who retire after 30 years' meritorious service on full-pay may at the discretion of the Admiralty be granted the rank of Inspector of Machinery. Chief Engineers to be allowed to count all confirmed Junior Service from the age of 20 for retired pay, and for full-pay and half-pay according to the Scale given in Her Majesty's Order in Council of 22nd February 1870. IV. A relates to Engineers. To be retired at the age of 45, or at any age if they have not served for 5 years or have been found physically unfit for service. To be granted retired pay on the following scale: Engineers qualified for promotion, For each year's service on For each year's service on Time of Assistant Engineers on probation not covered by Commission not to count for retired pay. Engineers with a total of 20 years' service on full-pay may, at the discretion of the Admiralty, be granted upon retiring the rank of Chief Engineer, provided they are qualified for promotion and have served creditably." V. As relates to Assistant Engineers. To be retired at the age of 40, and at any age if they have not served for 5 years, or have been found physically unfit for service, and to be granted retired pay on the following scale: Under 3 years' service 201. a year. For each year's additional | For each year's additional Time of Assistant Engineers on probation not covered by Commission not to count for retired pay. All additional time granted for 1st and 2nd Class Certificates gained at the Royal Naval College to count in all respects as service as Assistant Engineer. The number of Engineers and Assistant Engineers to be reduced so as eventually not to exceed 600, and the reduction to be effected as soon as practicable. That the provisions relating to Engineers and Assistant Engineers in Her Majesty's Order in Council of 22nd February 1870 be cancelled. That in the 16th Clause of the Pension Regulations established by Her Majesty's Order in Council of 12th February 1878 the words "Engineers and Assistant Engineers" be cancelled, and that the whole of Clause 18 with the exception of the last paragraph be also cancelled. By Command of their Lordships, To all Coramanders-in-Chief, &c. No. 20. C.W. ROBERT HALL. At the Court at Windsor, The 27th day of November 1878. The QUEEN'S most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Me morial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commis cieners of the Admiralty, dated the 23rd of October 187 in the words following, viz.: "Whereas by Your Majesty's Order in Council 30th April 1877, Your Majesty was pleased to san tion the compulsory retirement at the age of 45 yea of Officers holding the rank of Engineer: "And whereas we are now of opinion it may desirable under circumstances of emergency to tain these Officers in Your Majesty's Service un they attain the age of 50 years: We humbly subn that under circumstances of emergency the prese age for the compulsory retirement of officers holdi the rank of Engineer may be extended to the age 50 years, and that the optional age for retirement be 45 years. "And in consideration of the additional service that may be required of these Officers after the age of 45 years, increased retirement be granted to them on the following scale : "Engineers qualified for promotion: "For each year's service on Full Pay after the age of 45 years 71. 108. "For each year on Half Pay after the age of 45 years 31. 158. Maximum to be 1871. 108. "Engineers not qualified for promotion:"For each year's service on Full Pay after the age of 45 years 67, 108. "For each year on Half Pay after the age of 45 years 31. 5. Maximum to be 1621. 108. "And further that power be reserved to us to sus pend, under circumstances of emergency, the above provision under which an Engineer may at his option retire at the age of 45. "We do most humbly submit that Your Majesty will be pleased to sanction these our proposals, the expense that may be occasioned by the same being concurred in by the Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury." 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. C. L. PEEL. RETIRING PENSIONS TO CHIEF GUNNERS, CHIEF BOATSWAINS, CHIEF CARPENTERS, AND WARRANT OFFICERS. Chief and other Gunners, Boatswains, and Carpenters, holding appointments in Her Majesty's Yards, if not entitled to civil superannuation, shall be allowed to count such service as time towards pension, on the above scale. In the event of the above-mentioned officers having sustained injuries on duty not nearly equivalent to the loss of a limb, or being disabled by sickness contracted in the service, and not from want of proper care on their own part, an increase of not more than 101. a year may be made to whatever Retiring Allowance may be awarded to them under the foregoing scale, provided they have not already received compensation for the same. For ruptures and minor injuries received on duty gratuities shall be granted under Article 1976 of the Regulations, at the discretion of the Admiralty, instead of the above increase. Whenever an application for pension on account of age, long service, or disability is made by a Chief or other Gunner, Boatswain, or Carpenter who has received a wound or injury in the service, the Captain will direct the Medical Officer to make a report, which he will forward with the application, for the information of the Admiralty, stating clearly the extent to which the injury affects the applicant, and the degree in which it incapacitates him from contributing towards his own support; if the injury was received before the 30th of August 1870, and no hurt certificate is produced, the Under 5 years' combined service, 401. With 5 years' do. and under 10, 501. With 10 years' do. and under 15, 751. With 15 years' combined service, 931. applicant's statement should be supported by any documentary evidence that can be produced. Special Pensions, or gratuities in excess of the foregoing scale for service may, at the discretion of the Admiralty, be awarded when special services have been rendered requiring special reward; and such lower rates of pension 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 and other Gunners, Boatswains, and Carpenters 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, be allowed Naval Pensions on the seamen's scale, provided they have twenty-one years' ser. vice, 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 under Article 2010. GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS. Colonels Lieutenant- " and 2 1007. 2001. 1507. " " These Pensions shall not be held in addition to any other Pensions, unless it shall be a Pension conferred for wounds or injuries received in the Service. Only Captains, Royal Navy, and Colonels and Lientenant-Colonels, Royal Marines, on the Active List shall be eligible for the award of Good Service Pensions; but such Pensions may be granted to Flag Officers on the Retired List, Medical Officers, and to General Officers of Marines, whether on the Active, Reserved, or Retired Royal Lists; provided in the cases of Flag Officers that retirement has taken place after attaining Flag Rank, and that the retired pay together with the Good Service Pension shall not exceed the half-pay of an Admiral of the Fleet. Good Service Pensions shall be awarded to Flag Officers and Captains for distinguished service at sea, and in determining their claims, preference shall be given, in cases of special gallantry, to officers who have commanded ships in action against the enemy. Flag Officers and General Officers of Royal Marines in receipt of these Pensions shall be allowed to retain them after being retired; but, in the case of Flag Officers, if the Retired Pay 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 that rank shall be allowed to receive, in Retired Pay together with Good Service Pension, a sum not exceeding 6001, a year; but, should the two together exceed that sum, they will be retired on 6007., 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. Lieutenant-Colonels and Colonels of Marines to be allowed to receive in Retired Pay together with Good Service Pension a sum not exceeding 6007, a year, but should the two together exceed that sum they will be retired on 600l, a year relinquishing the Good Service Pension. Should any Flag Officers holding a Good Service Pension be in receipt of, 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 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 shall be allowed to draw his Good Service Pension irrespective of the receipt of Full or Half Pay or Civil Salary. 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. An officer promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet on the Retired List under the provisions of the Order in Council of 22nd of February 1870, Section X. para. 7, shall, in consideration of the rank not carrying increase of Retired Pay, be allowed to retain the Good Service Pension, or if not in possession of one shall be eligible for it. GREENWICH HOSPITAL PENSIONS TO ENGINEER N. 52. At the Court at Windsor, OFFICERS. The 2nd day of March 1881. 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 27th of January 1881, in the words following, viz. :-- "Whereas under Your Majesty's Order in Council of 22nd February 1870 and Article 1987 of the Regulations for the government of Your Majesty's Naval Service, the following Pensions out of Greenwich Hospital Funds are established for retired Engineer Officers of Your Majesty's Navy, viz., for Chief Inspectors and Inspectors of Machinery one Pension of Sot, per annum; for Chief Engineers seven Pensions of 501. per annum and whereas we are of opinion that, in consideration of the addition made in 1877 to the Active List of Chief Engineers, and the increased responsibilities devolving on Engineer Officers, a larger number of pensions should be awarded to officers of this class. "Chief Engineers, 7 additional Pensions of 50, making in all 14 Pensions of 50%. "And that when the retired list of these officers shall have reached a further point of increase, to be hereafter determined by us, a further pension of 501, be awarded to retired Chief Engineers, making in all fifteen such Pensions," 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. C. L. PEEL. P P PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS IN ROYAL MARINE FORCES. No. 13.-N. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 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 12th of January 1878, in the words following, viz. : "Whereas we have had under our consideration the representations made by the Officers of the Royal Marines (and particularly by the Captains and Subalterns) of the continued stagnation of promotion in the Corps: and whereas it appears to us, after full inquiry, that the only way of meeting the difficulty, with due regard to the interests of the Officers generally and the efficiency of the Service, will be by adopting, as far as possible, in the Royal Marines, the principle of Retirement and Promotion now established in the Army by Your Majesty's recent Royal Warrant, and by extending the system of compulsory retirement established in the Royal Marine Corps by Your Majesty's Order in Council of the 22nd February 1870, we humbly submit for Your Majesty's approval the following Scheme, which we have submitted in the form of Regulations, which have been framed with the object of providing a fair and even flow of promotion throughout the whole Corps of Royal Marines. "2.-Reserved Colonels. "The List of Reserved Colonels to be abolished. "3.-Second Commandants. "Second Commandants hereafter appointed to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, instead of Colonel, to receive the existing Pay of Second Commandant "4.-Re-establishment of Majors. "The substantive rank of Major to be restored, both in the Artillery and Infantry, with Pay at the rate of 168. a day, for both branches, and the regulated forage allowance (now 18. 10d. a day), and Half Pay at the rate of- "For Artillery 108. Od. a day. "For Infantry 98. 6d. "The Establishment of Majors and Captains to be as follows, viz.: Majors. Captains. 72 (instead of 96 Captains as at present). 24 (instead of 32 Captains as at present). "5.-Lieutenant-Colonel for Artillery. "The number of Lieutenant-Colonels in the Artillery Division to be increased from 3 to 4 (the number allowed to each Infantry Division). "S.-Adjutants. "The Pay of Adjutants, both in the Infantry and Artillery, to be increased from 3s, 6d, to 5s, a day in addition to their ordinary Pay as Lieutenants. "Q.-Quarter-Masters. "A fixed rate of daily pay to be substituted for the 301. a year granted to Quarter-Masters, under the Order in Council of 3rd February 1866, and to apply to all Quarter-Masters whether employed at the Divisions or at Head-Quarters. The Chief Clerk at the Marine Office to be a QuarterMaster; and to receive an allowance of 58. a day, in addition to his ordinary pay as Quarter-Master. "10.-First Entries. "First Entries to be carefully regulated, and a fixed number only, to be determined on actuarial_advice, to be admitted in each year, in order that the officers compulsorily retired on arriving at certain ages may be as few as possible. "The number to be limited to 16 or 17 appointments in each year for the whole force so long as it remains at its present strength, viz. : 12 or 13 for the Infantry. "4 or 5 for the Artillery. "And in the event of any increase or diminution of the Establishment, the changes to be effected on ac. tuarial advice and in the method least prejudicial to the ultimate interests of Officers on the Active List. General Officers - 65 Pay. Full pay of a Commandant, as under existing Regula tions. £600 a year. (as at present). £450 a year £600 - 54 48 £300 a year. (as at present). Captains Until the 1st January 1879 Captains to be allowed to remain until 43 years of age. A deduction of 15. for each year wanting to complete the age specified above to be made in the case of Colonels or Lieutenant-Colonels 2nd Commandant, if retired for being unfit to serve. years "Officers when permitted to retire with less than years' service are to be granted gratuities as follows:"After 20 years' service, a gratuity of £2,400, "After 18 years' service, a gratuity of £2,000, "After 15 years' service, a gratuity of £1,000, "After 12 years' service a gratuity of £1,200. "These gratuities not to be granted without the consent of the Treasury, and only for the purpose of reducing the number of Officers compulsorily retired on 22 years of service; and no addition to the number of fresh entries to be made in consequence. |