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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



service, and to the relatives of 

 general officers who have no other 

 adequate provision ; leaving it of 

 course still open for a departure 

 from this rule in any individual 

 instance of particular service, or 

 of extreme distress. The circum- 

 stances of each case are stated to 

 the Secretary of War, by whom 

 the same are particularly investi- 

 gated; and then submitted for the 

 royal consideration. 



COMPASSIONATE LIST. 



Proper Objects of the Bounty. 



Children of officers of the regular 

 army who die on full pay. 



Officers of fencible regiments 

 who die on full pay and out of 

 Great Britain. 



Officers of the invalids. 



Medical officers. 



Staff officers, including com- 

 missaries. 



Chaplains. 



Officers who have been reduced 

 upon half- pay. 



Widows and children of adju- 

 tants of local militia, who had pre- 

 viously served as officers in the line. 



Widows of officers not strictly 

 entitled to the regular widows' 

 pension have been placed on this 

 list in cases of particular distress, 

 and in some special cases at rates 

 equivalent to such pension. 



These allowances are in no case 

 considered as being granted for 

 life, but only so long as the per- 

 sons enjoying them shall remain 

 unprovided for : the daughters of 

 officers, therefore, cease to receive 

 them upon their marriage, unless 

 they can show in a satisfactory 

 manner that they arc still in cir- 

 cumstances to require the assist- 

 ance of the bounty, when they are 

 sometimes allowed to retain it by 



special permission to that effect. 

 The sons (except in cases of mental 

 or bodily infirmities which incapa- 

 citate them from obtaining a liveli- 

 hood) are struck off the list on 

 their attaining the age of 18 years, 

 or on receiving commissions in 

 the army or navy, or other ap- 

 pointments which may be sup- 

 posed to afford a piovision ; and 

 generally, all persons on the list 

 are discontinued, on its being 

 known at the War Office, that 

 they are provided for in a way to 

 render this assistance unnecessary. 

 Persons ceasing to apply for pay- 

 ment for four years are also con- 

 sidered as giving up their claim 

 to the allowance, and their names 

 are struck off the list. 



SUPERANNUATION ALLOWANCES. 



Upon the allowances, compen- 

 sations, and emoluments, in the 

 nature of superannuations, a con- 

 siderable increase is to be observed. 

 The amount for 1 8) 6 was 1 7,964/.; 

 it is for this year 25,5661.; which 

 is accounted for by the various 

 reductions which have been made 

 in some of the departments, giving 

 claims for compensations or re- 

 tired allowances to several of those 

 who have been hitherto employed 

 in effective service ; but this head 

 of charge should always be watch- 

 ed with peculiar attention, and 

 the injunction contained in the 

 letter from the treasury of 1816, 

 which prescribes that no allow- 

 ance should be made within any 

 department whatever to its own 

 officers, without the special sanc- 

 tion of the Lords Commissioners 

 of the Treasury, should in no case 

 whatever be departed from. 



EXCHEGUER FEES. 



On the charge of 35,OOOL for 

 Exchequer 



