granted on special ground, it being serious indisposition", by virtue of rules 119 and 120. The Governor was entitled by those rules to grant him leave for as much as 10 months, and for that period it has been confirmed.
Regulation 123 lays down the well-known principle that an Officer on leave is generally entitled to half salary, and Regulation 131 states that leave of absence will be extended by the Secretary of State where he thinks fit. The Duke of Buckingham has extended W. Pauncefote's leave for months, and therefore d'entend that he may quite properly be allowed half pay for that period.
It is true that Regulation 132 says that except in very "special cases Officers on leave will not be allowed half-salary for a term exceeding by six months one-sixth of their residual service. But I consider this a regulation applying to the great mass of Officers taking ordinary leave of absence, and that sick leave is in nature a "special case", and therefore one in which the continuity of State's first grant of six months extension should convey half-salary.
These are the grounds why I think that the half salary is fairly payable under the