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2185 WARRAiNXS, liJiGULATIONS, ETC.
Victoria Cross — contd.
Four on such warrant or petty officers or non-commissioned officers or men shall
carry with it an additional pension of Five Pounds per annum.
Fifteenthly. — In order to make such additional provision as shall effectually
preserve pure this most honourable distinction, it is ordained that if any person on
whom such distinction shall be conferred, be convicted of treason, cowardice, felony.
or of any infamous crime, or if he be accused of any such offence and doth not after a
reasonable time surrender himself to be tried for the same, his name shall forthwith
be erased from the registry of individuals upon whom the said decoration shall have
been conferred by an especial warrant under Our Royal Sign Manual, and the pension
conferred under Rule Fourteen shall cease and determine from the date of ..such
warrant. It is hereby further declared that We, Our heirs and successors, shall be
the sole judges of the circumstance demanding such expulsion ; moreover, We shall
at all times have power to restore such persons as may at any time have been expelled,
both to the enjoyment of the decoration and pension.
Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this twenty-ninth day of January, in
the nineteenth year of Our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six.
By Her Majesty's Command,
PANMURE.
VICTORIA R,
VICTORIA, by the Grace of Cod, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith :
To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting.
Whereas, by a Warrant under Our Royal Sign Manual, countersigned by one of
Our Principal Secretaries of State, and bearing date at Our Court at Buckingham
Palace, the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in
the nineteenth year of Our reign, We did constitute and create a new naval and
military decoration, to be styled and designated the Victoria Cross, which decoration
We expressed Our desire should be highly prized and eagerly sought after by the
officers and men of Our naval and military services, and did also make, ordain and
establish the rules and ordinances therein set forth for the government of the same,
to be thenceforth inviolably observed and kept.
And whereas, during the progress of the operations which We have undertaken
against the Insurgent native tribes in Our Colony of New Zealand, it has happened
that persons serving in the Local Forces of Our said Colony have performed deeds of
gallantr} 7 , in consideration of. which they are not, according to the strict provisions of
Our said recited Warrant, elig-ible for this high distinction.
Now know ye, that We, of Our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere
motion, have thought fit hereby to signify Our Royal Will and Pleasure, that the said
decoration may be conferred on such persons aforesaid, who may be qualified to receive
the same in accordance with the rules and ordinances made, ordained and established
by L T s for the government thereof, by Our said recited Warrant, ana we do by these
presents for Us, Our heirs and successors, ordain and appoint that it shall be competent
for such persons aforesaid to obtain the. said decoration, in the manner set forth in the
rules and ordinances referred to, or in accordance with such further rules and ordinances
as may hereafter be made and promulgated by Us, Our heirs and successors, for the
government of the said decoration, provided that it be established in an}' case that
the person was serving with Our Troops, under the orders of a general or other officer,
uuder circumstances which would entitle an officer or soldier of Our army to be
recommended for the said decoration, in accordance with the rules and ordinances
prescribed in Our said recited W arrant, and provided also that such person shall be
recommended for it by such General or other Officer.