On the enlisting, discharging, and pensioning of soldiers : with the official documents on these branches of military duty / by Henry Marshall.
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the enlisting, discharging, and pensioning of soldiers : with the official documents on these branches of military duty / by Henry Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![of being sent to Great Britain or Ireland, free of expense; in the latter case lie shall receive the regulated marching-money, from the place of his being landed, to the parish or place in which he was originally attested, or to such other place as he may choose, provided no additional expense be incurred. VII.—Deductions to which the Pensioner is liable. 57. The only deduction to which Pensioners shall be liable from their pension, is one shilling in the pound, as heretofore directed by the Act of the 28th of George II. and no agent or clerk paying the pensioners shall demand or take from them any fee or reward, without subjecting himself to the penalty of forfeiting his office, together with the sum of L. 100 in confor- mity with the Act of the 7th Geo. IV. cap. 16. [By an Act relating to army pensions, of the 16th July 1830, the Secretary-at-War, with regard to pay and pensions, and the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, with regard to prize money and pensions, paid by order of the Commissioners, are respectively empowered to issue any balance due to a deceased officer, soldier, or pensioner, when the amount does not exceed L. 50, to the next of kin or legal representative of the deceas- ed, without the production of letters of administration.]—Art. 57, Bis. 58. No person employed to pay the pensioners shall be al- lowed to charge more than threepence for the affidavit required to be transmitted quarterly to the Secretary to the Board of Chelsea Hospital. 59. Should a pensioner lose his instructions, and make an application for a fresh copy, he may be supplied therewith, on making affidavit of the circumstances under which the original was lost, and provided it shall be shown that the same had not been pledged, or improperly disposed of; but if the pensioner be proved to have taken a false oath, he shall be struck off the pension list. When new instructions are given, he shall be liable to pay for them a sum not exceeding two shillings and sixpence, nor less than one shilling. 60. The Commissioners shall, as heretofore, at their discre- tion, dismiss any in-pensioner from the Hospital if guilty of mis-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21954203_0237.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
