On the enlisting, discharging, and pensioning of soldiers : with the official documents on these branches of military duty / by Henry Marshall.

Date:
1839
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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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    V.—Instructions consequent upon His Majesty’s Warrant of the 18^ August 1836. 1. The rules established by the warrant in regard to soldiers who shall enlist on or after the 1st September 1836, will apply to men who shall re-enlist after that date. 2. The service requisite to entitle corporals, drummers, trum- peters, fifers, buglers, and private men to the distinction and rewards granted by this warrant may include former service in all ranks after the age of eighteen. 3. Men discharged on reduction, or for disability, and re- enlisting within three years after the date of their discharge, may reckon their former service, provided they shall declare such former service at the time of re-enlistment; but men purchasing their discharges, or receiving free discharges shall not reckon former service. 4. The forfeiture of service now attaching to individuals in respect of additional pay, in consequence of the sentence of a Court-Martial, or of conviction for desertion, will equally attach to them in respect of good conduct pay. 5. All soldiers now serving who enlisted on or before the 1st March 1833, and who have completed twenty-one years’ service, may, on relinquishing their right to additional pay, receive 3d. per diem good conduct pay, provided their names shall not have been entered in the regimental defaulters’ book for at least six years immediately preceding the exchange. 6. Soldiers of less than twenty-one years’ service, already in the receipt of additional pay at 2d. a-day for length of service, may, on relinquishing their right to additional pay, continue to receive the same amount, as good conduct pay, provided their names shall not have been entered in the Regimental defaulters’ Book for at least four years immediately preceding the exchange. 7. Soldiers who are already in the receipt of additional pay of Id. a-day for length of service may, on relinquishing their right to additional pay, continue to receive the same amount, as good conduct pay, provided their names shall not have been entered in the Regimental Defaulters’ Book for at least two years immediately preceding the exchange.
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