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jeebs, with the Bheel Corps in Malwa, being entirely for police duties, are not included in the class of Provincial Troops, or subject to the operation of these orders.

INVALID PENSIONS.

Fort William, May 2, 1823.-In order to consolidate and simplify the rules under which the Native officers and men of all Local, Provincial, or Irregular Corps

of Horse or Foot are in future to be considered eligible or entitled to the benefits of the Invalid Pension Establishment, former orders are hereby rescinded, and the following are to have effect from this date.

Local Infantry.

1. No Native commissioned, non-commissioned officer, drummer, sepoy, bhisty or lascar of the several corps of Local Infantry, shall be entitled to the benefits of the Invalid Pension, who shall have serv

ed less than twenty years, including any portion of time they may have served in the line, excepting such as have been wounded or contracted incurable disorders on service.-Disorders which men may have brought on themselves within the prescribed period of 20 years, or which may not have arisen from wounds received on duty, shall give them no claim to the benefit of this establishment, which is only intended for those who are worn out, or who may No officer or soldier, &c. is to be recommended for the Invalid Pension even subsequent to his 20 years' service, unless he shall in every respect be unfit for local service, from wounds, age, or infirmity.

have suffered from actual service.

2. No native officer, non-commissioned officer, drum, fife, or bugle major of Local Infantry, who has not been disabled on actual service, shall in future be entitled to the persion of the rank he may hold at the time of being invalided, unless he shall have actually served in that rank for three years; if he has served a shorter period he shall receive the subsistence only of the next inferior rank, unless disabled by wounds, or other injury received on service.

3. The Commandant, Adjutant, and Medical officers of each Local Battalion, shall, early in March of each year, prepare the usual descriptive roll of officers and men recommended as entitled, and proper objects to appear before the Invaliding Committee, ordered to be assembled at the head-quarters of the district in which the corps may be serving, or other proximate station, where a full committee may be assembled; and the necessary rolls being filled up and signed by the surgeon in charge of the corps, and countersigned by the Commandant and Adjutant, according to the forms laid down for the corps of the line, will be sent with the men recommended to the station directed in division or district orders, so as to appear before the

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Committee by the 31st March, where they will be regularly examined, and such as pass this examination will be noted accordingly "Unfit," and the rest, who under these regulations are not entitled to the pension, and still capable of local duty, will be returned, fit for ditto; the local troops not being eligible to the invalid battalions on the regular establishment, or to the intermediate performance of "garrison duty,' unless they shall have been received from the line, when they will be held entitled to the same privileges, excepting in regard to the length of service, which must be regulated by this order.

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4. Two copies of the roll will be forwarded to the Adjutant-General at headquarters in the usual manner, and the triplicate forwarded to the corps by the public staff officer; when the certificates directed in sec. 124, chap. xlii, last code, will be forwarded to such staff officer by the Adjutants of corps, for the men recommended for the pension, and the requisite means taken to pay them up, those who are considered fit for duty being directed to rejoin their corps forthwith.

5. On being paid up and supplied with their certificates, the officers and men so re

commended shall, under the orders of his Exc. the Commander-in-Chief, be directed like the men of the line to proceed to Monghyr, Allahabad, or Meerut, as hereafter specified, for final examination, at the same time with the Invalids of the line; such as pass the general committees, will receive from the proper officer the usual half-printed out-pension-roll, correctly filled up, as directed in general orders, 22 April 1820, to enable them to receive their stipend in such districts as they may select for their residence, from the district PayMasters, or Pay-Masters of Invalids, as the case may be.

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6. All Corps below Patna and the Gunduck river will send their Invalids to Monghyr; all Local Corps thence westward and northward to Allahabad or Meerut, as most convenient, in consequence of which, Meerut will become a third regular invaliding station in future, both for regular and irregular troops, under orders which will be issued hereafter, and subject in every respect to the same rules and forms, as prevail at Allahabad and Monghyr.

7. The same rules are applicable to the payment, accounts, check and controul of the Invalid Pensioners from the Local Infantry, as to those of the line now in existence, and no claims shall be received in any case where the descriptive or out-pension rolls, certificates, or other documents, are either informal or deficient.

Loeal Horse.

8. The Local or Irregular Horse shall, in no case, be entitled to the invalid pension, unless actually wounded or disabled on service, when it will be the duty of the officer commanding the corps to call for a special medical committee, at the head quarters of the district in which he may be serving, before whom such claimants shall appear with the rolls, &c. filled up, and signed by the Commanding Officer, Adjutant, and Medical Officer in charge of the corps, in all respects as complete and formal as those of Corps of the Line or Local Infantry, and forwarded in the same man

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10. The rules applied in Articles 4, 5, 6, and 7, to Local Infantry, will also prevail in every respect with regard to the forms and accounts of the men pensioned from the Local Cavalry.

Provincial Infantry.

11. The 8th and 9th articles of this re

gulation are strictly applicable to the Provincial Infantry of this establishment (including the Agra and Delhi Nujeebs), who shall in no case be held entitled to the Invalid Pension, except actually wounded indicated; or unless they were received or disabled on service or duty, as therein originally from corps of the line, in which event they are to be considered as entitled to the same advantages as those corps, except with respect to length of service, which shall be extended to 20 years, as in Article 1, relative to the Local Infantry.

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12. The same rules and forms shall prevail in the assemblage of Special Medical Committees, recommendation and descriptive rolls, papers and certificates, as for the class of Local Cavalry, and the Medical and Commanding Officers will be held strictly responsible for any neglect of these rules.

13. The general order by his Exc. the Commander-in-chief, of 8th March1816, (of which Extract, see margin*), being equally applicable to the Local and Provincial Troops as to those of the Line, the Governor-General in Council calls upon all officers in command of corps, with their medical officers and staff, whether of the line or irregulars, for a conscientious and zealous regard to the obvious spirit of those orders, and to prevent equally the service from being burthened with men unfit for their respective duties, or the Invalid and Pension establishments being improperly diverted to purposes, foreign to their institution,

A power heing vested in Commanding Officers of corps, to discharge any Sepoy whom the Medical Officer shall certify to be physically unfit to carry arms, and who, from the period of his service, and the nature and cause of such unfitness, may have no claim to a provision on the Invalid institution,-the Commander in Chief expects that on the present, and on all future occasions, no man of the above description will be brought be fore the Invaliding Committees.

and real utility, the officers commanding Local and Provincial corps of Horse and Foot, are enjoined to be particular in the execution of this order, though it is not to prevent them from bringing any peculiar instances of very long and meritorious services to the notice of Government, as special cases, in the Local Cavalry or Provincial Infantry, who are not strictly entitled by the regulations to the indulgence of a pension.

Troops of the Line.

14. These orders are not in any respect to cancel or effect those now in force, respecting the invalids from native corps of the line, as enumerated in the margin. The rules, rates, and period of service prescribed for them, remaining as heretofore, as well as those relating to European troops of the line, and their several establishments.

15. The several Regulations, relating exclusively to the Invalid Jagheerdar establishment, an institution which has been prospectively abolished since 1811, and the rules relating to which can no longer be useful to the army at large, are directed to be struck out of the order books accordingly, as obsolete, and having reference only to the actual Jagheerdar Invalids, and the Revenue Collectors and Officers who superintend them.

WM. CASEMENT, Lieut. Col.

Sec. to Govt. Mil. Dept.

LIMITATION OF STAFF APPOINTMENTS.

Fort William, May 23, 1823.-It being desirable to fix by one general rule the limits under which officers holding staff appointments, or other public employments under this presidency, may retain them, or otherwise, on promotions to superior rank, and to provide, generally, for all doubts or contingencies so far as they can be forseen, by establishing one equal and uniform principle, the following limitations are to have prospective effect from this date.

Public Offices and Staff Departments to be vacated on promotion.

Residents at Native Courts or high diplomatic Missions; Command of Divisions;-no limitation.

Secretary to Government Mil. Depart. ; Adjutant Gen.; Quarter Master Gen.; Commissary Gen.; Mil. Auditor Gen. ; Surveyor Gen.; Judge Advocate Gen. ;

Native Horse and Foot Artillery. Body Guard of the Governor-General. The Regis. of Light Cavalry.

The Regiments of Native Infantry.

The Batts. of New Leviet.

The Corps of Sappers and Miners.
The Battalions of Pioneeers.

The Bencoolen Regular Local Battalion. Store Lascar Companies (such only as were received from the former Gun Lascar Companies). Gun Lascars and Gun Drivers, attached to the Artillery; with the respective establishments attached to corps, as heretofore laid down.

Commandants of Subsidiary or Field Forces, Districts, or Garrisons ;-on promotion to rank of Major General.

Chief Commands in the Armies of Native Allied Powers; Town and Fort Major, Fort William; Dep. Secretary to Government Mil. Depart.; Dep. Adjutant Gen.; Dep. Quart. Mast. Gen. ; Dep. Commissary Gen.; Dep. Auditor Gen.; Secretary to Military Board; Principal Commissary of Ordnance; Superintendents of Public Buildings, when Engineer Officers; Superintendents of the Foundry, ditto ditto; Personal Staff of Governor Gen. and Commander-in-Chief; Political Agents at inferior Native Courts; Commandant of Sappers and Miners; Superintendent Trigonometrical Survey ;on promotion to rank of Major General, Regimental Colonel, or Lieut. ColonelCommandant of a Brigade of Cavalry, a

Regiment of Infantry, or a Battalion of Artillery; or acting Chief Engineer or Commandant of Artillery.

First Assist. to a Resident at a Native Court, or high diplomatic Mission; Principal Assistants in Civil charge of districts; Assist. Secretary to Government Mil. Department; first ditto Quarter Master Gen.; first ditto Commissary Gen.; first ditto Auditor Gen.; Agents for Gun Carriages; ditto Gunpowder; ditto Army Clothing; Principal Dep. Commissary of Ordnance; Model-master, and Tangent Scale Department; Joint Secretary Military Board;-on promotion to Lieut. Colonel regimentally.

Superintendents of Public Buildings, if not Engineers; ditto Foundry, if an Artillery Officer; ditto of the Stud; Presidency Paymaster; Commandant Body Guard of the Governor Gen.; Commandant Golandauz Battalion; ditto Local Battalions; ditto Local Horse; ditto New Levies; ditto Pioneer Corps ;-on promotion to Lieut. Colonel regimentally.

All Assistants, Deputy Assistants, or Sub-Assistants in Staff Offices, or Public Departments, not included above; Deputy Judge Advocates Gen.; BarrackMasters; Deputy Paymasters; Brigade Majors; Surveyors, land or river, if not Engineer Officers ;-on promotion to Major regimentally.

Secretaries or Persian Interpreters to General Officers or Brigadiers in Command, &c.; Aides-de-Camp to General Officers; Secretary Clothing Board; ditto Board of Superintendence, Stud Department; Superintendent Field Transport; ditto Half Wrought Materials; ditto Family Money; ditto Cadets; ditto Roads or Bunds; ditto Timber Agencies;-on promotion to Major regimentally.

Superintendent of Telegraphs; Garrison Store Keeper; Commissaries of Ordnance; Deputy ditto; Fort or Cantonment Adjutants; Paymaster and Adju

tant of Invalids; all Officers attached to the College of Fort William, any Native College or Institution; Political, or other Civil Situations inferior to first Assistant to a Resident or to a Civil Commissioner; Appointments in the Mints, Command of Palace Guards, or Escorts with Native Princes; Command of Residents' Guards or Escorts ;-on promotion to Major regimentally.

No appointment or public employ whatever, not included in the above enumeration, to which a military officer is eligible, shall be retained in future on the promotion of the party to the rank of regimental Captain, excepting professional offices in the corps of Engineers, which are not limited under the rank of Acting Chief Engineer.

INTERPRETERS IN NATIVE CORPS. Head Quarters, Calcutta, May 27, 1823. -The Commander-in-Chief is pleased to notify to the subaltern of officers of the army, the scale of qualifications expected in the candidates for the office of Interpreter in Native Corps, and the tests by which such qualifications are to be ascertained, viz.

1. A well-grounded knowledge of the general principles of grammar.

2. The ability to read and write with facility the modified Persian character of the Oordoo, and the Devi Nagree of the Khurree Bolee.

3. A colloquial knowledge of the Oordoo and Hindooee, sufficient to enable him to explain with facility, and at the moment, any orders in those dialects, or to transpose reports, letters, &c. from them into English.

The tests by which these qualifications are to be tried-are,

1. By well selected questions, not of the niceties, but of the general leading principles of grammar.

2. By viva voce conversation with the examiners.

3. By written translations into Hindoostanee, in both characters, of selected orders, or rules and regulations.

4. By reading and translating the Bagho-Buhar in Hindoostanee; the Prem Sagur in Khurree Bolee; and the Goolistan or Unwar-i Soheily in Persian.

It will be the duty of Committees of examination to ascertain the attainments of candidates by the foregoing rules; and their reports are to specify the proficiency of the party examined, under each of those heads.

The Commander-in-Chief desires it to be further understood, that previous examination in the College of Fort William, if successful, will be considered as sufficient proof of qualification; but that the examinations which took place of officers

quitting the Barrasut Institutions, will not exempt candidates from the operation of the foregoing orders.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO KING'S OFFICERS.

Head Quarters, Calcutta, June 3, 1823. -To prevent any misapprehension respecting leaves of absence to His Majesty's officers, who may be at Calcutta, or within the Presidency command, the Major General or officer commanding the division for the time being is authorized to grant leave, without awaiting a communication from head-quarters, in cases of certified illhealth, or in situations where officers may require, upon very urgent and pressing occasions, leave of absence within the limits of the Presidency command.

On all ordinary occasions, applications for leave of absence must be submitted as at present, to the Commander-in-chief, through the Adjutant Gen.

REMISSION OF SENTENCE ON NATIVE OFFICER.

Head Quarters, Calcutta, June 5, 1823. -In consideration of the infirmities of Jemadar Mirza Bundley Beg, of the 2d bat. 13th regt., and that Native officer being possessed of medals for services at Seringapatim, in Egypt, and on the island of Java, on which occasion he had volunteered his services, together with the circumstance of his having been several times wounded, his Exc. the Commander-inChief is pleased to remit the sentence of suspension passed upon the Jemadar, as promulgated in G. O. of 5th ultimo, and to transfer him to the Invalid Establishment as an out-pensioner upon the Invalid pay of his rank.

OFFICERS TO ATTEND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Head Quarters, Calcutta, July 5, 1823. -The undermentioned officers of the General Staff, and composing the suite of the Commander-in-Chief, are to attend His Exc. in his tour to the Upper Provinces, and are accordingly directed to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Cawnpore.

General Staff.

Col. Sir S. F. Whittingham, QuarterMaster Gen.; Col. Sir T. McMahon, Bart., Adjutant Gen.; Major W. Croker, Assist. Adjutant Gen.-of King's Troops.

Lieut.-Col. R. Stevenson, QuarterMaster Gen.; Lieut. Col. J. Nicol, Adjutant Gen.; Major W. L. Watson, Deputy Adjutant Gen.; Capt. W. S. Beatson, Assist. Adjutant Gen.—of the Army.

Suite of His Exc. the Com.-in-Chief. Lieut.-Col. Geo. Marley, C.B., Military Secretary.

Capt. Elliott, Assist. Secretary.

Capt. F. Champagne,
M. Semple,

E. J. Honywood,

H. Hay,

K. Borrowes,

Aides-de-
Camp.

Extra ditto.

G. Crole,
Captain T. Macan, Persian Interpreter.
Mr. W. Twining, Surgeon.

INVALID APPOINTMENTS.

Fort William, June 6, 1823.-With reference to G. O. by Government of the 2d ult., announcing that Merut and Hauper would henceforth be made a third station for the Invalids from corps, regular and irregular, of this army, the Governor-Gen. in Council is pleased to abolish the designation of Superintending Officer of Invalids at Hauper, and to make the following appointments:

Lieut. Col. G. Hickman, of Invalids, to be regulating Officer of the Invalid Jaghirdar establishment at Chittagong, vice Maxwell, deceased.

Brev. Capt. J. Hoggan, 27th N. I., to be Adjutant of Native Invalids and Paymaster of Native Pensioners at Meerut and Hauper, on the same scale of staff, office, and other allowances, as obtain with the corresponding appointment in the Allahabad division.

Brev. Capt. Hoggan will immediately proceed to receive charge of the Hauper Invalid Accounts from the Deputy Paymaster at Meerut, and such documents relating to Jaghirdars as may be in possession of Lieut. Col. Hickman, who will then repair to Chittagong.

Capt. P. M. Hay, 28th N. I., in charge of Chittagong Provincial Battalion, is appointed to the charge of the Jaghirdar establishment in that district till Lieut.-Col. Hickman joins.

His Exc. the Commander-in-Chief is requested to give effect to the arrangement establishing Merut as a third regular Invaliding Station, for the final examination of the troops annually recommended for the Invalid establishment, and to assign the station and posts in the northern and western divisions of the army, which are in future to send their Invalids to Merut in

stead of Allahabad for final examination.

The rules of management and forms of accounts are in every respect to be the same as prevail at Allahabad and Monghyr.

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10th April, the Resident, Lieut,-Col. Farquhar, was suddenly attacked by an infariated Malay, and that his life was saved by the Havildar, who threw himself between his commanding officer and the assassin, and warded off the blow aimed at the former, receiving himself a wound in the struggle.

His Exc. is pleased to mark his sense of the Havildar's prompt and courageous conduct, by promoting him to the rank of Jemadar from the 11th inst.

INVALIDS, KING'S TROOPS.

Head-Quarters on the River, July 25, 1823.-1. Adverting to the approaching meetings of the Annual Station Invaliding Committees, the Commander-in-Chief is

pleased to appoint Capt. Creighton, of the 11th Dragoons, to the general charge of the invalided men of H. M. regiments stationed in the Upper Provinces, and that officer will accordingly proceed with them, under the sanction of Government, from Ghurmuckteser Ghaut to Fort William by water, calling for and taking charge of such invalids and other soldiers at the intermediate stations as may be destined for the Presidency.

2. Lieut. L'Estrange, of the 14th Foot, will do duty with the troops under Capt.

Creighton; and Assist.-Surg. Harcourt, of the 11th Dragoons, will attend the same in medical charge.

3. The men to be discharged from H.M. regiments whose periods of service have expired or may terminate within the current year, and such as may engage into formerly served, are to be placed under other regiments than those in which they Capt. Creighton's command, who will deliver those who have enlisted into corps stationed between Meerut and Calcutta,

together with all documents belonging to them, to the Commanding-officers of each corps respectively.

4. Officers commanding regiments stationed at a distance from Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, will explain to the time-expired men, who decline renewing their engagements, that they will on no account be

permitted to reinlist after they shall have actually left their corps, for the purpose of eventually embarking for Europe.

5. The Major-Gen. or Officer commanding the Meerut division will be pleased to cause the invalids, &c. of the 11th Dragoons and 14th Foot to move thence in progress to Fort William, on, or as early as practicable after the 1st Oct. next, directing Capt. Creighton to report to the officers commanding at Cawnpore, Ghazeepore, Dinapore and Berhampore, the probable time of his arrival at these stations respectively, that no delay may

ensue.

6. Commanding-officers of regiments will transmit at the prescribed period to VOL. XVII. 2 B

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