352 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



2(1. The stale of sea and ordi- opportunity of giving him another 



nary pay shall be as follows, in apj)ointment. 



the several lates : 6ih. The rates of superannua- 



^ . J oj - L , L ..», .• <• tio" "f warrant officeis shall be 



Rate Ist 2d Sd 4th 5th 4th et infra- j- » x, r n • i 



according to the following scale, 



Sea ... ./^loo 90 80 70 65 60 formed on a consideration of the 



Ordinary/" 85 76 65 55 50 45 total length of Service as warrant 



3d. The above pay is to be officer, with the length of service 



personal and net, and no deduc- in commission : — 



lions or compensations are to be Toul Strrice. CommlMioned 3«nice. Ptnslnnt. 



made. 30 years 20 years.. it85 



4th. No warrant officer shall be 30 ... ■ 15 75 



appointed to a fifth rate, who shall 30 10 . ,.,... 65 



not have served two years either 30 5 55 



in a sixth rate or slowp in com- 20 20 75 



mission; nor to a fourth rate, 20 15 65 



who shall not have served two 20 10 55 



years in a fifth rate in commis- 20 5 45 



sion : nor to a third rate, who 15 15 60 



shall not have served one year in 15 10 50 



a fourth rate in commission, or 15 5 40 



three years in a fourth or fifth 10 10 45 



rate in commission ; nor to a se- 10 5 3i 



cond rate, who shall not have 7th. Officers whose length of 



served two years in a third rate in service may happen not to fall 



commission; nor to a first rate, exactly under any of the preced- 



who shall not have served three ing numbers, shall be pensioned 



years in a second or third rate in agreeably to the rate which may 



commission. But as in times of come nearest to their length of 



peace it may not be possible for service. 



officers to serve the lequired time 8th. Officers having a shorter 

 in commission, we submit, that period of service than the lowest 

 in cases of vacancy, when there of the foregoing, shall receive 

 happens to be no man who has either the pension to which their 

 served the requisite time for an services would entitle them from 

 appointment, it may be given to Greenwich-hospital, or such other 

 the person who may be, in our sum, not exceeding 30/. per an- 

 opinion, in other respects the best num, as we, on a view of the in- 

 qualified for and entitled to the dividual case, may appoint, 

 situation. 9th. No warrant officer shall 

 5th. In the event of any war- reckon as service, either for pro- 

 rant officer being put out of his motion or euperannuation, any 

 ship by her being lost, broken up, time for which he shall not have a 

 or otherwise, he shall be placed as certificate of good conduct from 

 supernumerary in one of his Ma- the captains or commanders of the 

 jesty's ships in ordinary of the ships in which he may have scrv- 

 saaie rate, until we may have an ed ; and if the certificate should 



not 



