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907 COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES TO CHILDREN, Ac.
The Widow of a Mate, Commissioned Warrant
Officer. Divisional Chief Officer of Coast Guard, or
Chief Officer of an R.N.R. Battery, is only entitled
to the rates applicable to those ranks should her
husband have had one year's service in the rank, or
should his death have been attributable to the Ser-
vice; otherwise the rates applicable to Warrant
Officers or to Chief Officers of Coast Guard Stations
will be awarded.
The Widow of a Warrant Officer or Chief Officer of
a Coast Guard Station with less than one year's
service (acting time, if any, included) and confirmed
in the rank, is not eligible for a Pension unless the
Officer's death is attributable to the Service.
The Widow of a Head Schoolmaster who has been
killed in action, or who has died of wounds received in
action within 2 years of such wounds having been re-
ceived, or who has died from illness brought on by
fatigue, privation, or exposure incident to active oper-
ations before an enemy, within 2 years of his having
been first certified to be ill,or whoshall havecompleted
not less than one year's continuous service as Warrant
Officer at the tiriie of his death, shall be granted a
Pension, provided the marriage took place before the
Officer attained the age of 45 years, and the Widow be
certified as being left in necessitous circumstances
and subject to the conditions laid down for the Pen-
sions of other Officers' Widows, so far as they apply.
10. The Widow of a Chaplain shall not receive a
Pension unless her Husband's name was on the List
at the time of his death, nor unless she shall have
been married during or prior to her Husband's service
in the Navy, nor unless her Husband shall have served
One Year on Full-Pay subsequent to their marriage,
and shall have served Three Years on Full Pay.
If, however, he had completed Ten Years' Service
on Full Pay, a Pension may be granted, although no
portion of such service shall have been subsequent to
their marriage, provided the Widow is otherwise
eligible, and provided as regards Officers retired after
10th November, 1886, that the marriage took place
before the Officer left the Active List.
12. In all cases of a Widow re-marrying, her
Pensiou shall be suspended from the date of her
re-marriage; but in the event of her again becom-
ing a Widow, her Pension may be restored, upon
proof being adduced to the Admiralty that her
private income does not exceed tho limit fixed
From time to time by the Admiralty for the rank
last held by her husband, and that she is otherwise
deserving the Public Bounty, but it will be again
liable to suspension during future re-marriage.
If a Widow, in consequence of re-marriage with a
Naval or Marine Officer, becomes again eligible for a
Pension from naval funds, she may either revert to
her first Pension, or be granted the Pension for
which her second marriage rendered her eligible
whichever is most to her advantage.
13. Every Officer, whether on Full, Half, or Retired
Pay, shall,— in order to facilitate the decision upon
the claim of his Family, after his decease, to the
benefit of these Regulations, notify his marriage
within one month of its taking place, to the Admiralty,
according to the Form given.
14. With respect to marriages contracted In Scot-
land, uone will be admitted, for the purposes of these
Regulations, which cannot be proved either by an
extract of the Register of the Kirk Session, or other
legal record of tho place in which the marriage shall
have been celebrated— or by an acknowledgment of a
Mavriage to be transmitted to the Admiralty, made
and subscribed by the parties themselves in Scotland,
in presence of a Magistrate, according to the Form
given, or a Decreet of Declaration of Marriage.
15. The Widows of Officers on the Reserved and
Retired Lists are only eligible for the Pension appli-
cable to the rank and seniority of their husbands at
the date when they were last on the Active List,
except in the case of (i.) Captains who were advanced
to the rank of Flag Officer whilst on the Retired List
and who were Retired or Married before the 10th
November, 1886, whose Widows are pensioned as the
Widows of Flag Officers, and (ii.) Commissioned
Warrant Officers retired after 1st April, 1896, with the
substantive honorary or relative rank of Lieutenant,
Carpenter Lieutenant, or Engineer Lieutenant,
whose Widows are pensioned as the Widows of Junior
Lieutenants.
The widows of Paymasters-in-Chief who attain that
rank on retirement will be awarded the same rate of
Pension as widows of Paymasters-in-Chief on the
Active List.
The same rate may also be awarded to the widows
of Fleet Paymasters who are still on the Active List,
provided that at the time of their death they have
reached the age for optional retirement, and were
eligible by service for, and would in the ordinary
course have been granted, the rank of Paymaster-in-
Chief, on retirement.
16. Widows of Marine Officers.
i a i Officers retired be/me 29 June, 1882.
The General Rules for the grant of Pensions to the
Widows of Naval Officers are applicable to the cases
of Widows or Marine Officers, except where otherwise
stated in these Regulations.
In computing the period on the list of Com-
missioned Officers necessary to render Widows
eligible for Pensions, in the case of Marine Officers
who have been promoted from the ranks, three years
in the ranks shall be allowed to reckon as two years
in commission towards such qualifying period ; and
if under this rule the time is still insufficient, the
Admiralty may, at their discretion, award a Pension
notwithstanding, provided the actual service in all
ranks amounts to the period required in the cases of
other Officers.
The Widows of Marine Officers who held Brevet or
Honorary Rank on the Activk List shall be granted
the Pension applicable to that rank. The Widows of
Marine Officers who were given an honorary rank on
or after retirement shall only be entitled to the Pen-
sion applicable to the substantive rank of the Officer
when last on the Active List.
(b) Officers retired after 29 June, 1882.
The Widows of Marine Officers retired after 29th
June, 18S2, will be pensioned under the rules govern-
ing the award of Pensions to Widows of Officers of
His Majesty's Army.
17. Widows and Oh ildren of Officers killed in Action
Gratuities, under tie following regulations, shall be
allowed, as His Majesty's Royal Bounty, to the
Widows and Orphans of such of the Officers mentioned
in Article 1, as may be slain in the King's Service, in
tight with the enemy, pirates, or smugglers, or in en
counters with the Ships of friends by mistake, or in
quelling disturbances on shore or afloat; and persons
dying of their wounds within seven years shall be
considered as persons slain, viz :—
i. To a Widow, a Gratuity equal to a year's Full-
Pay of the rank which her husband held at the time
of his death.
ii To each Orphan (who shall not be married, nor
be of the age of twenty-one at the time of the father's
death), one-third of the Gratuity to the Widow •
posthumous children shall be considered as orphans'.