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COMPASSIONATE ALLO"WANCES TO CHILDEEN, (fee. 2365
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 seven
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 Offieers.~a) 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 be 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 be 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 he
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.
20. The Allowances granted to the Sons of Officers
may be continued until they attain the Ar/e of
Eighteen or are otherwise previously provided for ;
and those to the DaugWers may be continued until
they marry, or attain the Age 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-
Bionate 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 30(. 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 ease of motherless children, however, the
private income limit is 46(.
23. In tho 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
I year commencing 1st January, but are not payable
till after the following 1st April.
25. Children who were bom 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 Sei-vice, the
aggregate amount of the Allowances to his Family
shall not exceed lOOl. a year more than the amount ol
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
injuries received on duty within seven years after
being injured, and leaves no Widow nor legitimate
Child, but leaves a Mother who is a Widow in dis-
tressed 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 tho time of his death;
but it 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 tlie 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 pension given to a Mother on
account of her Son will b3 forfeited on re-marriage,
and will not be restored in the event ol 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 sliall die of wounds or injuries received
on duty within two years after being injured, and
shall have lett no Widow, legitimate Child, nor
Mother,''nor unless the Sister shall be an Orphan,
having no surviving Brotlrer, 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 bo no ordinary rate of Pansioii attached
to the rank of the Otticer, such Pension may be
granted as the Admiralty may see fit, in the case of
both Mothers and Sisters, under the circumstances
stated in Articles 28 and 29.
30. Widows, Children, and other relatives or
Officers who may have been granted temporary
Commissions, or have held acting appointments,
together wirh relatives of Officer- of the Royal Naval
Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve to be
eligible for pension and allowances on the same
scales as are prescribed for Officers of similar ranks
holiing permanent Commissions in the Royal Navy.