Regulations to be observed in the Transferring of Soldiers from one Battalion to another of the same Regiment. Whenever one Battalion of a Regiment is ordered to be completed from the other, the Men shall be selected under the Superintendence of a General Officer. No Man is to be transferred who is not fit for the active Duties of a Soldier; but as both the Battalions of Regiments are equally applicable to Foreign Service, and it being essential that they should be kept as efficient as circumstances will permit, it is not to be understood that the best and finest Men are to be selected from the Second Battalion, but that a fair and equal Draft shall be made of the numbers required to complete the First Battalion. With this view it is required that the Draft shall be made by complete Files, as far as may be practicable, by which means a more just proportion of the different Descriptions of Men will be taken than by any other mode that can be conveniently adopted. A proportion of the Flank Companies shall on all such occasions be transferred, of at least Two Men in every Ten who may be transferred. The Men transferred from one Battalion to another of the same Regiment, will of course take with them their Clothing and Great Coats, but no Arms or Accoutrements must be removed from one Battalion to another, unless special Directions to that effect are received, or unless the Commanding Officer of the Second Second Battalion has received Information that the First Battalion has not a sufficiency of Arms and Accoutrements in Store for the Supply of the Men who are transferred. A proportion of Non-commissioned Officers must be selected for the purpose of accompanying such Drafts as are sent to join Battalions on Foreign Service, for whom Vacancies are retained upon the Establishment of the Battalions abroad:-The Noncommissioned Officers, who are transferred on these occasions to the First Battalions, must be Men who are in every respect fit for active Foreign Service, of unexceptionable Characters, and who have a perfect knowledge of their duty as Non-commissioned Officers. In all Cases when Soldiers are transferred from one Battalion to another, the Officer Commanding the Battalion from which they are transferred, is to send with the Men, in Charge of the Officer appointed to conduct them, the following Documents, viz. 1.-A List of their Names, Ages, Services, &c. &c. extracted from the Description Book. 2-A Statement of their Accounts (according to the Form prescribed in Page 215), shewing the period to which each Man has been paid;-the period for which he has received Clothing ;-the Nature of the Claims of any Man which remain unsettled, stating the Cause which prevents the Settlement of them ;and a List of the Necessaries which each Man has in his possession at the time of his quitting the Battalion from which he is transferred. Regiment of marched from under the Command of Necessaries in possession. shoes. Stockings Foraging Cap. Leggings. Knapsack. Nature of Claims which any remain unsettled; the cause of them is to be fully stated Debts. Credits Period to which each Man has been paid. s.d. s.d. Signature of each Man. 215 |