"تاريخ البحرية الهندية. (١٦١٣- ١٨٦٣)." [‎٥‎٦‎٠] (٦٢٢/٥٧٩)

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at once. I shall promulgate it to the officers of the Indian Navy
who are now at home, and pensions in accordance with it will
at once be allotted to them here, leaving for future adjustment
any cases in respect to which there may be a doubt as to the
amount of pension to which an officer is entitled. Although the
Acting-Masters of the Indian Navy are not entitled to pensions
under the scale, I shall not interfere with the pensions which
the Government of Bombay have granted, subject to my sanc
tion in Council, to ten of those officers who have served for
more than fifteen years. The honorary promotions upon retire
ment should be gazetted at once by the Government of Bombay.
I have only further to observe that the names of such officers as
accept the highest scale of pension in lieu of the right which
they now possess to succeed to the pension of J08OO per annum
(that is to say, the officers placed in the first category of the
pension scale), will be retained in italics upon a general list to be
framed, which shall include the four present holders and all the
expectants of ^£800 per annum, for the purpose of regulating
the succession. Officers who may select the lower scale of
pension, with the prospect of the pension of c£800, will only
succeed to the latter in their proper seniority, and as they would
have done if all the officers entitled to succeed to it had retained
their right, and actually succeeded in turn. A copy of this list
should be forwarded to me.
"10. I concur with your Excellency's Government, that it
may be more acceptable to some of the officers if their pensions
are commuted into a capital sum; and I shall be prepared to
commute half the value of the pensions of officers of the rank of
lieutenant and upwards, and the whole value of the pensions of
officers junior to lieutenant. It will be necessary that officers
retiring, will receive the honorary rank of f Captain' in the Indian Navy.—Lieu
tenants, sixty-eight on the list. The twenty-four senior lieutenants on the list,
who on their retirement will receive the honorary rank of ' Commander' in the
Indian Navy, to retire on a pension of £300 each; the twenty-four next on the
list, £250; the twenty next on the list, £200.—Mates. The twelve senior mates
on the list to retire on a pension of £150 each. All mates who will have been
three years on the list of mates on the 31st of December; 1862, £125. The above
officers to receive the honorary rank of c Lieutenant' in the Indian Navy. All other
mates, £100.—Midshipmen : Each midshipman to retire on a pension of £60.—
Pursers or Paymasters, twenty-three on the list. The six senior pursers on the
list to retire on a pension of £300 : the six pursers next on the list, £250 ; the
eleven pursers next on the list, £200.—Captain's Clerks, twenty on the list.
Each captain's clerk to retire on a pension of £60.—Acting-Masters and Second-
Masters. Gratuities. All the Acting-Masters who have completed fifteen years'
actual service in India, to receive a gratuity on discharge equal in amount to two
months' pay for every complete year of service. All the Acting-Masters, and all
Acting Second-Masters, whether first or second class, of less than fifteen years'
actual service in India, to receive a gratuity on discharge equal in amount to one
month's pay for every complete year of service, which gratuity shall in no case be
less in amount than three months' pay." Other clauses in this Enclosure de
tailed the pensions to be awarded to "Engineers and Boiler-makers," " Country
or Naval-trained Engineers," " Journeymen and Apprentices."