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Not to pre-

vent the

half pay

under any Act relat-

ing to the General or

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Possessions of Her Majesty beyond the seas, or under any other Government, shall have or receive any part of the same for any time during which he shall hold any such civil place or employment of profit (except as aforesaid) under Her Majesty beyond the seas, or under any other Government, other than that of a barrack-master under the Secretary of State for War, who shall, under the restrictions before mentioned, be entitled to receive his half pay: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall prevent receiving of any person from receiving his half pay who shall be serving as an Adjutant in the Volunteer Force, or who shall be entitled to the same under any Act or Acts relating to the General or Local Militia, or to the Yeomanry, but that every such Adjutant shall receive the same on making and subscribing such declaration as shall be specified in the regulations made for the Volunteer Force, under the provisions of the Volunteer Act, Local Militia, 1963, and every other person shall receive the same according to the provisions of any such Act or Acts; and also every surgeon, serjeant-major, serjeant, corporal, and private serving in the General or Local Militia, or in any Corps of Yeomanry or Volunteers, in Great Britain or Ireland, may and shall receive any ball pay, together with any pay in the General or Local Militia, or Yeomany or Volunteers, upon making and subscribing a declaration in any case in which an oath or declaration shall be required in and by any Actor Acts, or specified in any Warrant of Her Majesty, as the case may be, and stating in such declaration the commission or employment which he held in the General or Loca Paymaster militia, the yeomanry or volunteers: Provided always, that from and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four it shall be lawful for the Pay. the Treasury master-General to issue the half pay or any portion thereof to any officer appointed to civil place or employment of profit under Her Majesty or any other Government since the twenty-eighth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, if Her Majesty's pleasure to that effect be signified by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, through the Secretary of State for War, but such permission to be granted under the restrictions before mentioned: Provided always, that an account shall be laid before Parliament in every year on or before the first day of April, if Parliament be then An account sitting, or, if Parliament shall not then be sitting, on the first day of the sitting of Parlia- ment after the first day of April, of the number of officers who are allowed to receive their half pay with civil emoluments, specifying the names of such officers, with the belady to respective amounts of their half pay, and the emoluments of their respective civil employments, and distinguishing in every such account the officers to whom such half pay shall have been allowed subsequent to preceding accounts.

General by permission of

may issue

half pay to officers appointed to civil offices since July 1828.

of the number of officers so receiving half

Parliament

sonually.

Half pay allowances

benefices

the Crown,

27. And whereas chaplains of regiments who have been placed upon half pay have not been allowed to receive such half pay in some years in consequence of being in possess. to chaplains sion at the time of certain ecclesiastical benefices or preferments, though the same were of regiments not in the patronage of the Crown: And whereas it has been judged fair and reasonable not holding ecclesiastical that they should be allowed to receive such half pay, though in possession of ecclesiastical preferment, provided the same was private patronage, and not derived from the Crown, derived from and that they should be entitled to receive the arrears of half for such former

pay

years as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted, that all chaplains who, after having been placed upon half

shall have been refused or been unable to receive such half pay in any year in consequence of holding any ecclesiastical benefice not derived from or in the gift of the Crown, shall be entitled to receive the arrears of such half pay for such year, upon making and subscribing a declaration before the proper officer for administering declara- tions to persons for entitling them to receive half pay that they held no ecclesiastical benefice or preferment in any year derived from the Crown, nor any place or employ. ment of profit under Her Majesty, and the making and subscribing the said declaration shall, without making and subscribing any other declaration, be sufficient to entitle such chaplain to receive his half puy.

pay,

APPENDIX VII.

Royal Warrant, 25th June 1881.

990. Retired pay may, subject to the provisions of Art. 991, with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury, signified through our Secretary of State, be issued in full to an officer holding a civil situation, subject to limitations corresponding to those in the Appropriation Act, 1870, as regards half pay."

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(No. 1388.)

Defence Department, Melbourne, SIR,

October 1, 1885. By direction of the Hon. the Minister of Defence, Victoria, I have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of a memorandum* which is being sent by this mail to the Imperial Government.

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The object of the memorandum is, as you will observe, to urge the Imperial Govern- ment to remove from the present regulations those clauses which operate so prejudicially against the Colonies by throwing obstacles in the way of Active or Retired Officers of the Army or Navy giving their services to the Colonics.

I am desired to inform you that the Premier is sending the memorandum to the Premier of Canada direct, but that with a view to save time, and in order to obtain your valuable support, the Minister of Defence wishes to put you in possession of the memorandum at as early a date as possible.

I have, &c., (Signed) M. F. DowNES,

The High Commissioner for Canada.

SIR,

No. 2.

Major-General,

Secretary of Defence.

GOVERNOR SIR H. B. LOCH, K.C.B. (VICTORIA) to COLONEL the RIGHT Hon.

(No. 118.)

F. A. STANLEY, M.P. (Received November 30, 1885.)

Government House, Melbourne,

October 20, 1885.

I HAVE been requested by the Honourable the Premier of this Colony, to transmit

a memorandum from the Minister of Defence relative to the employment in the Colonies of Imperial, Naval, and Military Officers in connexion; with the Colonial Forces.

The memorandum in question refers principally to the subject of Imperial Officers while employed in the Colonial service having to forego, during the period of such employ- ment, their half pay, pension, or retired pay, as the case may be.

There is an apparent uncertainty with respect to the regulations as regards the employment of officers who have been in the Imperial service, or who may still be in the Imperial service on half pay, as to the manner in which their claims for retired allowance, pension, &c., may be affected by their acceptance of Colonial service, and it is desirable that all ambiguity on this point should be removed.

The present may afford a good opportunity for the consideration of some well con- sidered scheme by which the Colonial Military Forces may be brought into closer union with the Imperial service.

The great difficulty that must necessarily exist in maintaining a thoroughly well organized military service in these Colonies is the small field that it offers for promotion; this difficulty, in some measure, might be partially removed if the Colonies amongst themselves could arrive at some understanding for the amalgamation of their several local forces, and thus have one general service interchangeable between the several Colonies; this, of course, specially applies to that portion of the Colonial Military Establishments that are permanent in their character.

If a Colonial federation in this direction could be accomplished, the efficiency of the force would be materially assisted if a certain proportion of the officers of this force were interchangeable with those of the Imperial Army, they being, of course, permanent subject to similar examinations, &c. as the officers of the Imperial service.

It is also desirable if Imperial Officers are allowed to serve in the Colonial Forces that a thorough understanding should be arrived at so as to secure uniformity with respect to the position they are to hold under the several Colonial Governments.

Colonel the Right Hon. F. Stanley, M.P.,

&c.

&c.

&c.

I have, &c., (Signed)

HENRY B. LOCH.

* See Enclosure in No. 2.

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