Officers for Staff Appointments of any kind, and are responsible that the Officers, in whose behalf they interest themselves, are, by their previous personal Services, as well as by their Acquirements and Character, qualified to discharge, with advantage to the Service, the Duties attached to the Station for which they are recommended. Officers in the Command of Regiments or Battalions are responsible that no Officer is permitted to be absent from his Regimental Duty for the purpose of holding a Situation upon the Staff of the Army, until he shall have attained a complete knowledge of his duty as a Regimental Officer. Officers holding Staff Situations in Foreign Garri sons (those only excepted who are appointed by His Majesty's Special Authority) shall, on their Regiments quitting the Station, relinquish their Situations on the Staff, in order to accompany their Regiments. No Officer is to be removed from the Staff of the Army at Home without the previous Approbation and Authority of the Commander in Chief: Officers serving upon the Staff of Foreign Stations are not to be removed without the previous Authority of the General Officers Commanding on those Stations. Regulations Regulations respecting the Appointment of Persons to Commissions in the Army; the Prices of Commissions ;—the Purchase and Sale of Regimental Commissions Promotions, Exchanges, &c. &c. No Person is considered eligible to hold a Commission in the Army, until he has attained the Age of Sixteen Years. All Recommendations for Commissions shall certify the eligibility of the Person recommended, in respect of Character, Education, and Bodily Health, and that he is prepared immediately to join any Regiment to which he may be appointed. His Christian Name and Place of Address must also be particularly stated. 1 In particular Instances Commissions in the Regular Army are allowed to be disposed of by Sale, and the Table inserted in Page 32 shews the established Rates of Value of Commissions. All Applications regarding Regimental Appointments, Promotions, Exchanges or Removals, or for Permission to retire from the Army, are to be transmitted to the Commander in Chief's Military Secretary, through the Colonel, or the Officer commanding the Regiment, if the Regiment is at Home; or if the Regiment is Abroad, through the General Officer commanding at the Station. It is the Duty of Regimental Agents to make regular communications to the Commanding Officers of Regiments, of all Appointments, Promotions, Removals and Exchanges of Officers, specifying the Dates of the same taking place. TABLE When an Officer is desirous of retiring from the Service, and of obtaining Leave to sell his Com mission, he is to send his Resignation, through the Commanding Officer of his Regiment` (if his Regiment is in Great Britain), to his Colonel, who, in transmitting the same to the Commander in Chief through his Military Secretary, may at the same Time, if there are Purchasers in the Corps, recommend in Succession the Seniors of their respective Ranks for Purchase, both the Colonel and Commanding Officer certifying that they are satisfied that no more than the Sum stipulated by His Majesty's Regulations is given or received. Should there be no Purchaser in the Regiment, the Resignation of the Officer desirous to retire is alone. to be transmitted, in the Manner and Form above mentioned, to the Commander in Chief, Officers belonging to Regiments stationed in Ire land must make their Applications in a similar coursé to the Commander of the Forces in that part of the Kingdom and on Foreign Stations to the General Officer Commanding, their Applications being previously sanctioned by their respective Commanding Officers, who are to certify, in the same Manner as Colonels of Regiments at Home, that they are satis→ fied in regard to the Sums given, or to be received being in strict conformity to His Majesty's Regu lations. Colonels, when absent from Great Britain and Ireland, may empower the Officer in actual Coinmand of their Regiments, and if their Regiments are also Abroad, they may empower their Regimental Agents, to recommend Purchasers for vacant Coinmissions, in which Case the necessary Certificates, in regard to the Sum to be paid in Regimental Successions, must be signed by them in the Colonel's Absence, as well as the Recommendation for the Purchase. When an Officer is desirous of retiring to Half-pay, receiving Difference, the same Rules are to be observed in regard to transmitting his Application; but no Recommendation in Succession is to accompany the Request to retire. Returns of all Officers prepared to purchase Promotion are to be regularly transmitted from each Regiment and Corps in the Service on the 25th March, 25th June, 25th September, and 25th December in each Year, to the Commander in Chief's Military Secretary, Horse Guards, London:-These Returns must be prepared according to the Form prescribed in Page 38, and must particularly state where the Money of each Individual, who is desirous of purchasing, is lodged, or to be obtained. Similar Returns must be forwarded to the Regimental Agents for the Information of their respective Colonels. Officers on Leave of Absence from Corps on Foreign Service may transmit their Applications to purchase or sell, through the Colonels of their Regiments; and in the Event of a Change in an Officer's Circumstances between the Quarterly Returns, he may |