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IV.

All expenditure incurred under paragraph III

above, will be debited to the Imperial Government.

V. All pensions and gratuities granted under

paragraph III, clause (b) will be notified in the Pension

Circulars of the Controller of Military Accounts, Punjab

Command.

VI.

The following terms will be granted to Native

Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates, desirous

of re-enlisting in the Indian Army :-

(1)

Punjabi Musalmans, up to the establishment of

four companies will be permitted to volunteer, in the ranks they held in the Hong Kong Regiment, for the 9th Madras Infantry. Ranghars, up to the establishment of one Company, will be allowed to volunteer, on the same conditions, for the 5th Bengal Infantry. After re-attestation under the Indian Articles of War, these Volunteers will be granted the following concessions :-

(a) They will be allowed, on foregoing all claim

to pension or gratuity under the terms of the Royal Warrant, to reckon all former service, either in the Hong Kong Regiment or in the Indian Army previous to transfer thereto, for good-conduct pay and pension under Indian !

Regulations,

(b) They will be granted kit money as for recruits

at R.30 per Non-Commissioned Officer and Private.

(c) They will be granted special furlough for

four months on the full Indian rates of pay and good conduct pay of their ranks, with free passages by rail from their homes to the head-quarters of the regiment in which they elect to serve.

(ii) Yusufzais, Khattaks and other Pathans, as well as

Hindustanis and other classes represented in the Hong Kong Regiment (including such Punjabi Musalmans and Ranghars as are not disposed of under (1) will be permitted to re-enlist in any battalion of the Indian Army, or in the reserve of any such battalion, recruiting men of their

class