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COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES TO CHILDREN, <fec. 908
In the calculation of these Gratuities, the Officer's
Command Money and other Full-pay Allowances,
except Table Money, shall be included.
18. In the case of an Officer killed in action, or
dying from wounds received in action within two
years, and not leaving a Widow, but leaving a
Daughter or Daughters only, an annual Allowance,
equal to the ordinary rate of Widow's Pension may,
under special circumstances, be granted, instead of
the Compassionate Allowance, to such Daughter or
Daughters collectively. Such Allowances may be
continued until the Daughter, or the last survivor of
them, in case there be more than one, may become
disqualified by marriage or otherwise.
19 Children of Officers. — (1) Allowances on the
Compassionate List to the legitimate Children of
deceased Commissioned Officers, may be given in
those cases in which the rank of the Officer would
render his Widow eligible to be placed on the
Pension List; provided it he shown that the Children
have no other Allowance, Pension, or Provision from
the Government (except in the case of Boys under
the age of eighteen who may he serving as Sub-
ordinate Officers in the Navy), and that their
pecuniary circumstances, and those of their family,
are so limited that they actually require assistance
from the Compassionate Fund.
(2) The scale of Compassionate Allowances for
Children of Officers is laid down in the foregoing
Table, but motherless children who are not in receipt
of more than 301. a year from other sources may be
granted allowances within a maximum of double the
ordinary rates.
(3) When a Medical Officer retires, or withdraws on
a gratuity, his children will have no claim to Com-
passionate Allowance.
2i'. The Allowances granted to the Sons of Officers
may be continued until they attain the Aae of
Eighteen or are otherwise previously provided for;
and those to the Daughters may be continued until
they marry, or attain the Ar/e of Twenty-one, which-
ever shall first happen, and no longer; except in
very special cases, in which it shall be shown that
such Sons or Daughters are afflicted with any mental
or bodily infirmity, rendering them incapable of
making any exertion for their own support ; and that
they are still in distressed circumstances, the allow
ance may be continued, or revived should any break
of continuity from under age have occurred.
These allowances may also be awarded in those
special cases where the Sons and Daughters of
Officers who were not in receipt of Allowances when
under age, are rendered incapable of making
adequate exertion for their own support through
infirmity, dating from a period before the father's
death, and before the Sons and Daughters reached
the age at which in ordinary circumstances Compas-
sionate Allowance would cease.
21. Children who are being educated at the expense
of Greenwich Hospital may be granted the minimum
Compassionate Allowances applicable to their
Father's rank, provided real poverty is proved to
exist.
22. All persons alluded to in Article 20 who are in
receipt of 301. a year from other sources, or whose
Mothers have been refused Pensions on account of
private income, are considered ineligible for Compas-
sionate Allowances under ordinary circumstances.
In the case of motherless children, however, the
private income limit is 451.
23. In the event of a Widow re-marrying, her
Children by the first marriage are still eligible for
Compassionate Allowances, provided they are other-
wise qualified to receive them.
24. Compassionate Allowances are granted for the
year commencing 1st January, but are not payable
till after the following 1st April.
25. Children who were born after their Fathers
commuted their Retired Pay are not eligible to be
placed on the Compassionate List. Children born
after partial commutation will only be granted a
proportion of the Allowances for which they would
otherwise have been eligible.
26. The aggregate amount of the Allowances to the
Family of any Officer shall not exceed, in ordinary
cases, the amount of the Half- Pay of his Rank and
Seniority at the time of his death. In the case of an
Officer whose death is attributable to the Service, the
aggregate amount of the Allowances to his Family
shall not exceed 1' 01. a year more than the amount of
the Half-Pay of His Rank and Seniority at the time'
of his death.
27. Mothers.— When an Officer is killed in action, or '
killed or drowned on duty, or dies of wounds or 1
injuries received on duty within two years after
being injured, and leaves no Widow nor legitimate
Child, but leaves a Muther who is a Widow in dis-
tresst d circumstances, and who was dependent upon
him, the Mother shall receive a Pension equal to the
ordinary rate of Widow's Pension attached to the-
rank which her Son held at the time of his death;;
but if such Mother shall herself be in the receipt of a
Pension as an Officer's Widow, or shall have any
other provision of any kind from the public, in that,
case no Allowance will be made to her on account of
her Son, unless she gives up the other Pension or
Allowance, and the pensi- n given to a Mother on
account of her Son will be forfeited on re-marriage,
and will not he restored in the event of her again
becoming a Widow.
28. Sisters.— Sisters of Officers are not eligible for
any Allowance, unless under very special and extra-
ordinary circumstances. The Allowance will not
exceed that which would be given to a Mother and
will not be given in any case unless the Officer
shall have been killed in action, or killed or drowned
on duty, or shall die of wounds or injuries received
on duty within two years after being injured, and
shall have left no Widow, legitimate Child, nor
Mother, nor unless the Sister shall be an Orphan,
having no surviving Brother, and shall have been
dependent for support Upon the Officer killed.
Every Pension so granted will cease when the person
receiving it shall marry, or be in any other manner
sufficiently provided for.
29. If there be no ordinary rate of Pension attached
to the rank of the Officer, such Pension may be
granted as the Admiralty may see fit, in the case of
both Mothers and Sisters, under tiie circumstances
stated in Articles 28 and 29.