STATE PAPERS. 



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In some cases half-pay has been 

 allowed to those officers only who 

 had been removed from other re- 

 giments in which they would have 

 been entitled thereto ; the other 

 officers receiving, as disbanding 

 money, from 3 months to 3 years' 

 full pay, according to the periods 

 of their service. 



It is to be observed, that the 

 following classes of officers are 

 allowed to continue their half-pay 

 (contrary to the general rules of 

 service;) viz. 



Officers receiving (under the 

 Act 5'2d Geo. III. cap. 151) pen- 

 sions for the loss of limbs. 



Officers of the King's German 

 Legion, or Foreign Veteran Batta- 

 lion, serving in the Hanoverian 

 army. 



Officers of the Brunswick Corps , 

 serving in the forces organized for 

 the protection of the dominions of 

 the Duke of Brunswick. 



Swiss officers serving in the 

 Swiss Militia. 



Officers receiving pensions from 

 tlie Frerch government, provided 

 no service be attached to such 

 pensions. 



IM AND OUT - PENSIONERS OF 

 CHELSE.'V AND KILMAINHAM 

 HOSPITALS. 



The increase of the current 

 year, as compared with the last, 

 is not quite '2,600Z. for the in- 

 pensioners j but with regard to 

 the amount of the expense attend- 

 ing the out-pensioners, it is ne- 

 cessary to enter into considerable 

 detail, embracing the information 

 which your committee have called 

 for from the Paymaster-general 

 and the Secietary at War. 



The Payinuster-geiieral of the 

 Forces holds, in virtue of his pa- 



tent, the office of Treasurer of 

 Chelsea-hospital ; he presides at 

 the boards which are held for the 

 general business of the hospital, 

 and attends the examination of the 

 dischaiged soldiers, who claim, 

 either in respect of seivice or dis- 

 ability, to be placed upon the 

 pension-list. 



By the act of 46th Geo. III. 

 cap. 69, persons are enabled to 

 enlist in the infantry for a limited 

 period of seven years, to re-enlist 

 for a second period of seven years, 

 and for a third period of seven 

 years. In the cavalry, for a first 

 period of ten years, a second of 

 seven years, and a third of seven 

 years. They are to be entitled to 

 their discharge at the expiration 

 of any of these periods of service; 

 and further to such ])ensions for 

 their sei vices as his Majesty, by 

 any regulations to be framed in 

 consequence of that act, might 

 think proper to allow. 



By a warrant of his Majesty, of 

 7th of October 1806, a pension of 

 5d. per day was granted to pri- 

 vates who were discharged, and 

 had served their second period, 

 viz. fourteen years in the infan- 

 try, or seventeen years in the ca 

 valry ; and a pension of Is. per 

 day to those who were dischaiged, 

 and had served their third period, 

 viz. twenty-one years in the in- 

 fantry, or twenty- four years in the 

 cavalry. 



In addition to these rates of 

 pension, all those who have served 

 beyond the third period are to be 

 allowed one halfpenny a day for 

 every year of service after the ex- 

 piration of the third period ; and 

 in estimating the number of years' 

 service for the pension, two years* 

 service in the East or West Indies 



reckon 



