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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1893.

47. In the case of a soldier being delivered up as an apprentice, or convicted of felony by the civil power, the surplus remaining in the hands of the Committee of Adjustment, together with any balance of pay that may be due, will be applied in all respects in the same manner as mentioned in paragraphs 40, 42, and 43, except that no payment of the residue, under paragraph 43, shall be made to any soldier convicted of felony until he shall have undergone such punishment as he may have been sentenced to for the same.

48. No sum credited as the balance on a soldier's non-effective account, or as the amount realized by the sale of his private property, will be re-charged without special War Office authority. In applying for such authority it should be stated --

(1.) On what date the man deserted.

(2.) On what date the man was apprehended, or gave himself up as a deserter, or if he has fraudulently enlisted, on what date such fraudulent enlist- ment was detected.

(3.) What are the debts (if any) due by the man respectively, to (a) the public, (b) the Officer Commanding the troop, squadron, battery or company, (c) to any other persons.

(4.) In what account the sum in question has been credited to the public.

(Section 24 of the Act.)

49. In cases of insanity, the Committee of Adjustment will be composed in like manner as in the respective cases of death.

50. The foregoing regulations relative to the respective cases of death will be applied in a case of insanity, as far as the difference of the circumstances will admit; except that whenever possible the sale of effects will be deferred until, in the case of an Officer, he is removed from the Active List, and in the case of a soldier until he is discharged; and further that the Committee of Adjustment will forthwith remit or lodge the money remaining in their hands to or in the hands of the Army Paymaster, Military Secretary, or other Officer or person to whom or in whose hands they are to remit or lodge the surplus in the respective cases of death, and he will forthwith transmit the same to the Secretary of State for War, or the Secretary of State in Council of India, as the case may require.

51. The same will be then, with all convenient speed, applied for the benefit of the Officer or soldier to whom it belongs, in such manner as the Secretary of State for War or the Secretary of State in Council of India (as the case may be) in his discretion thinks fit.

(Section 26 of the Act, § (1).)

52. As soon as possible after receiving the surplus from the Committee of Adjust- ment, the Military Secretary will cause the notice under Section 26 of the Act, § (1), to be published by advertisement in the Government Gazette of the Presidency in which the deceased was quartered.

53. The notice will be in the following form, with such variations as circumstances require:-

The Regimental Debts Act, 1893, Section 26, § (1).

Notice is hereby given:

First. That information has been received by me of the deaths of the Officers, Warrant Officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers named and described in the subjoined table.

Secondly. That there have been received by me, as the surplus of their respective properties, the amount set opposite their respective names in the same table.

Thirdly. That all claims by creditors against the respective properties of the deceased are to be lodged with me within two calendar months from the date of this notice.

(Signed)

A.B..

Calcutta, the

day of

Military Secretary,

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