Every officer after twenty-five years service in India, three years for one furlough being included, is allowed to retire with the pay of the rank to which he has attained; but such pay is to be the same only as that allowed to officers of infantry.

A member of the Medical Board, who has been on that station not less than five years, and not less than twenty years in India, including three years for one furlough, is permitted to retire from the service, and allowed 500l. per annum.

A surgeon of a general hospital, who has been in that station not less than five years, and whose period of service has been not less than twenty years, including three years for one furlough, as above, is permitted to retire from the service, and allowed 300l. per annum for life.

All other surgeons and assistant surgeons attached to the military, are permitted to retire from the service on the pay of their rank, after having served in India not less than twenty years, including three for one furlougn.

A chaplain after eighteen years service, ten years at a military station, and including three years for one furlough, is allowed to retire with the pay of his rank.

Every lieutenant colonel, major, captain, or captain lieutenant, is allowed to retire with the half pay of their rank to which he has attained, in case his health shall not permit him to serve in India.

A lieutenant having served thirteen, or an ensign nine years in India. including three years for a furlough, may retire on the half pay of his rank, in case his health shall not permit him to serve in India.

A lieutenant is permitted to retire on the half pay of ensign, if his constitution should be so impaired as to prevent the possibility of his continuing in India.

Every officer returning on furlough, and wishing to retire from the service, must make a declaration to that effect, within twelve months after his arrival in England; and in case of his neglecting so to do, he must, at the expiration of his furlough, either return to India, or be held to have relinquished the service, and not be entitled to retire on pay, unless he has continued to serve in India, from his first arrival, for the space of twenty-two years, without having a furlough; in that case he is allowed two years before he shall be called upon to signify his intention of retiring, but he can only be allowed the pay of the rank he held at the expiration of twelve months from his arrival in Europe.

Promotion in consequence of officers retiring in England, takes place from the time when such officers are permitted by the Court to retire.

to their rotation to be absent on furlough, and the same rule is applicable to assistant military surgeons. The furlough to be granted by the commander in chief at each presidency, with the approbation of the respective governments.

Chaplains must have been seven years in India before they can be allowed furlough, (except in case of sickness) with the pay of their corresponding rank, viz. captain. The period of furlough is three years, reckoning from its date to the day of the return of the officer to his presidency.

No officer on furlough can receive pay for more than two years and a half from the period of his quitting India.

The Right Honorable the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India.

Right honorable William Pitt,
Lord Glenbervie,

Right honorable J. Wallace,
Earl Clancarty,

Geo. Peter Holford, esq. secretary.

The Honorable the Court of
Directors.

esq. M. P.

Sir Francis Baring, esq. bart. M. P.
Jacob Bosanquet, esq.
Joseph Cotton, esq.
William Devaynes,
Simon Fraser, esq.
Charles Grant, esq.
Charles Grant, esq. M. P. chairman,
John Huddleston, esq. M. P.
Sir Hugh Inglis, bart. M. P.
Paul Le Mesurier, esq.
Sir Stephen Lushington, bart. M. P.
John Manship, esq.

Sir Theoph. Metcalfe, bart. M. P.
Charles Mills, esq. M. P.
Thomas Parry, esq.
Edward Parry, esq.
Richard C. Plowden, esq.
Thomas Reid, esq.

Abraham Robarts, esq. M. P.
John Roberts, esq.

George Smith, esq. M. P. deputy,
George W. Thelluson, esq. M. P.
Robert Thornton, esq. M. P.
William Thornton, esq.
Sweny Toone, esq.

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1. No cadet to be admitted under 14, or above 16 years of age; or below the height of four feet nine inches. A certificate of every candidate's birth, taken from the parish register, and signed by the minister, to be delivered to the secretary of the East India Company, as likewise an address where he may be sent for on a vacancy.

2. Every candidate previously to his admission, must be well grounded in arithmetic, including vulgar fractions, write a very good hand, and be perfectly master of the English and latin grammars.

3. All candidates are publicly examined by the proper masters in the royal Military Academy; and if found deficient in any of these preparatory parts of learning will be rejected.

4. The above qualifications are indispensable at the time of examination, but the future studies of each candidate will be very materially forwarded, with a view of obtaining a commission. If he has also learned to draw, and acquired a knowledge of the French language before he is appointed a cadet.

The days for examining candidates are Tuesdays and Wednesdays,precisely at eleven o'clock; and the candidates are to present themselves to the lieutenant-governor, or inspector of the royal Military Academy at Woolwich.

REGULATIONS. Respecting Cadets for the East India Company's Artillery, who cannot be admitted into the royal Military Academy at Woolwich. That the cadets for the artillery and engineers, who undertake to qualify themselves at private academies, be directed to study mathematics from Dr. Hutton's course, published in two volumes, for the use of the royal military academy, which, if they regularly pursue from the commencement, and enable themselves to pass an examination under Dr. Hutton, as far as conic sections (not included) besides acquiring some knowledge of the principles of mechanics, so as to judge of the power of machines in general, they may be considered as possessed of the same mathematical qualifications as the cadets of the academy likely to be promoted in 1804.

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