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RETIREMENTS, Ac,
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Scale of Retired Pay.
Total Sea Service in the rank of Commander and
Lieutenant :—
Pay per Diem.
! Half-pay they may
be receiving at the
time when retired.
a. d.
Above 9 years and less tuan 13 years' Service 10
ii 12 ,, IS „ 12 8
„ IS ,, 20 ,, 14 6
,, 20 IS 6
Officers after twenty years' service in these ranks,
or who are physically incapable of 3orvice, to be
eligible for this retirement, with the rank and title of
Retired Captain, irrespective of age. at the discretion
of the Board of Admiralty.
1864.
1. The Active List of Commanders to be reduced
from 450 to 400.
2. The existing system of placing on the Retired
List, under the conditions specified in the Order in
Council of August, 1860, all Commanders who have not
served within a Deriod of fifteen vears, either afloat
or in command of Revenue Vessels, or in the Coast
Guard, or as Mail Agent or Transport Officer, to be
extended to Commanders who have not been so
employed during a period of ten years ; such Officers
and Officers of Greenwich Hospital of similar rank, to
be permitted to assume the rank and title of Retired
Captain on reaching the age of 60, or on attaining
fifteen years' seniority on the List of Commanders
and to receive, on their retirement, pay on the «ca>e
provided for in the said Order in Council, with this
difference only, that Officers who shall in future retire
will be allowed to reckon their service in the Coast
Guard on shore, or Transport Service on shore, as half
the same period served at sea, instead of one-third, as
at present.
3. The same plan of retirement, with its correspond-
ing benefits of rank and Retired Pay, to be extended
to Commanders who may have attained the age of 55
provided they will be willing and desirous to accept
the same.
4. A limited number of Commanders who may have
attained the age of 46, and who are not desirous of
further employment, may be retired on the foregoing
condition, at the discretion of the Board of Admiralty,
When the Active List of Commanders shall have been
reduced to 400, no further retirement of Officers to
take place under this clause.
5. Commanders who have already been removed from
the Active to the Retired List of that rank, under the
provisions of the Order in Council of August, 1860, as
well as those who may hereafter so retire, to be
allowed to assume the rank of Retired Captain, on
attaining fifteen years' seniority, but without any
increase of Half-pay or Widows' Pension, beyond that
authorised by the said Order in Council.
1866.
Commanders to be retired at the age of 55, or when
physically unfit for service, and to beallowed to retire
at 60, with the consent of the Admiralty, on the terms
of the Order in Council of 9th July , 1864,
LIEUTENANTS.
1816.
This List consists of the 100 Senior Lieutenants who
by age and infirmities are presumed to be incapable of
further service, and who are permitted to retire at a
pension of 8s. td. a day, with the rank of Commander.
Their widows receive a pension of £60 per annum.
1851.
4N Tne number of Lieutenants on the Active List will
De reduced to a number not permanently exceeding
1,200, viz. :
1st. By the promotion of 50 Lieutenants by selection,
as above 3tated.
2nd. By placing on the reserved Half-pay List all
Lieutenants who have not served afloat, or in the
Packet or Revenue Service, within 20 years, and all
•ucn as are physically unable to serve ; and by
removing from time to time such Officers from the
Active to the Reserved Half-pay List, reserving to
them, as in the case of Commanders, all the advan-
tages they now enjoy of rising in pay or rank, or of
receiving the Greenwich Out-Pension. (This List was
abolished 6v Order in Ootmcil of August, 1880,1
1856.
Further, as regards Lieutenants, this Order in
Council provides that the Reserved List, consisting of
50 Commanders (established by Order in Council of
36th June, 1851) be increased to 100; such increase to
be effected by selecting from the Active List of
Lieutenants a number not exceeding 15 in the present
and in each succeeding year, till the number of 100 be
complete, when the vacancies only are to be filled up,
by selection also from the Active List.
1860.
Lieutenants on the Active List, who have attained
or may hereaf te-r attain the age of 60, to be placed on
a Retired List with the rank of Retired Commander,
aad to receive pay according to their Sea Service on
the hereinafter-mentioned scale.
Lieutenants on the Active List, who have not been
em ployed, either afloat, in the Coast Guard, in command
of Revenue Vessels, oi as Mail or Transport Agents
within a period of 16 years, to be placed on a Retired
List, and to receive pay also on the same scale as herein
after mentioned. These Officers to be permitted to
assume the rank and title of Retired Commander on
attaining the age of 60, but without further addition
to their Retired Pay.
8cale of Retired Pay .
Total Sea Service in the rank of Lieutenant :—
Pay per Diem
Under ( years .
Above 6 years and less than 9 years
j Half Pay they may
be receiving at the
! time when retired,
s. d.
16
16
1
8 6
11 6
Officers after 20 years' service in this Rank, or who w
are physically incapable ol service, to be eligible for ™
Retirement with the Rank and Title of Retired Com-
mander, irrespective of age, at the discretion of the
Board of Admiralty.
No further additions from the Active List to be
made to the present Retired and Reserved Lists for
Commanders and Lieutenants.
Lieutenants who have been promoted to the
Reserved List of Commanders, under the Orders in
Council of 25th June 1851. and 30th January 1866, will
be entitled to increase o' pay on the above scale,
according to their length of service.
1864.
1. The Active List of Lieutenants not to exceed 1,000
instead of 1,200, the number at which it is at present
fixed.
2. Lieutenants who have completed fifteen years' Sea
Service in that rank, and who have attained the age of
46, to be allowed to retire with the rank of Retired
Commander. Such Officers to receive Retired Pay,and
their widows to be allowed Pensions on the scale pro-
vided for in the Order in Council of August 1, I860,
with this difference only, that such Officers who shall
in future retire, shall reckon their Service on the
Coast Guard on shore, or Transport Service on shore,
as half the same period served at sea, instead of one-
third, as at present.
3. Lieutenants who are either now on the Reserved
or Retired List, or who may be in future Retired under
the provisions of the Order in Council of August 1, 1860.
and Lieutenants of Greenwich Hospital, to be allowed
to assume the rank of Retired Commander on attain-
ing fifteen years' seniority, but without any increase
of Half-pay or Widows' Pension beyond that autho-
rised by the Orders in Council under which they were
respectively retired.
1866.
Lieutenants to be retired at 65, or when physically
unfit for service, and to be allowed tc retire at 45.
with the consent of the Admiralty, on the term of
the Order in Council of 9th July 1664.