REGULATIONS

RESPECTING

THE DUTIES

OF

OFFICERS AND REGIMENTS.

IN all Duties, whether with or without Arms, Piquets, or Courts Martial, the Tour of Duty shall be from the Eldest downwards.

Of Duties of Honor; the 1st is the King's Guard; the 2d, those of the Royal Family; 3d, the Captain General's, or Field Marshal commanding the Army; 4th, Detachments of the Army, or Out-posts; 5th, General Officer's Guards; 6th, the Ordinary Guards in Camp or Garrison; 7th, the Piquets; 8th, General Courts Martial, and Duties without Arms, or of Fatigue.

Officers on the Inlying Piquet are to be considered as liable to be relieved, and to be employed on other Duties.

If an Officer's Tour of Duty happens when he is on the Inlying Piquet, he shall immediately be relieved, and go upon that Duty: and his Tour upon

the Piquet shall pass him, although he should not have been upon it a quarter of an hour.

If an Officer's Tous of Duty for the Piquet, General Court Martial, or Fatigue, happens when he is upon any other Duty, he shall not make good that Piquet, Court Martial, or Duty of Fatigue, when he comes off, but his Tour shall pass :-And in the like manner, if he should be upon a General Court Martial, or Duty of Fatigue, and his Tour of Guard or Detachment should happen, such Guard or Detachment shall pass him, and he shall not be obliged to make it good.

When, from peculiar circumstances, it is probable that a considerable time may elapse before the Sentence of a General Court Martial is declared, the Members shall be liable to return to, and do their Duty with their respective Corps, at the discretion of the General Officer Commanding.

General Courts Martial, which have assembled, and the Members been sworn in, shall be reckoned a Duty, though they should be disinissed without trying any Person.

When Officers are given out in General Orders for one Duty, they are not to be taken off to be put on any other Duty, without previous Permission from Head Quarters.

No Officer is to exchange his Duty with another, without leave of the Commanding Officer of his Regi

ment.

Guards

Guards or Detachments which have not marched off from the Place of Parade, or Rendezvous, are not to be reckoned as a Duty done; but if they should have marched off from the Place of Parade, it shall be reckoned a Duty, though they should be dismissed immediately afterwards.

No Regiment is to demand a Tour of Duty, unless it has marched off the Place of Parade.

Whenever the Piquets are ordered to march to any Parade, it is not to be accounted a Duty unless they march off that Parade.

When a Detachment of Grenadiers or Light Infantry is ordered, their own Officers are to march ; and if such Officers are on any Regimental or Camp Duties, they are to be relieved for that purpose.

Regulations respecting the Command and Rank of Officers.

All Commands in the Regular Forces fall to the Eldest Officers in the same circumstances, whether of Cavalry, Artillery, or Infantry. In case two Commissions of the same date interfere, a retrospect is to be had to former Commissions.

When Corps join, either in Camp, Garrison, or Quarters, the Eldest Officer, whether by brevet or otherwise, is to command the whole.

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Officers with the rank of Colonel are not liable to be included in the roster of Field Officers; a distinct Duty will generally be assigned to them as Colonels.

Captains having the brevet rank of Field Officers, shall do duty as Field Officers in the Line, and an Overslaugh shall be allowed on their brevet to their Regiments in the general roster of Captains, but they shall perform all Regimental Duties according to their Regimental Rank, agreeably to the established Rules of the Service.

The following are the Rules by which the relative Rank of the Officers of His Majesty's Regular Forces, Militia, Yeomanry Cavalry, and Volunteer Corps, is to be determined.

Officers of the Regular Forces command the Officers of equal degree, belonging to the other Military Services.

Officers