may make a direct Communication to Head Quarters, in order to prevent any Purchase taking place in ins own Corps, by which he may be passed over by a Junior Officer :-This Rule is applicable also to Officers on the Recruiting Service, or on other Military Duties, whose Corps may be on a Foreign Station. Officers on Half-pay desirous of exchanging to Full Pay, giving the regulated Difference, must address themselves to the Commander in Chief's Military Secretary, stating where their Money is lodged, or to be obtained, to enable the Commander in Chief to recommend them as Vacancies occur. The Forms of Application for the Purchase, Sale or Exchange, of Commissions, and the Certificates annexed thereto (as prescribed in Pages 39, 40, and 41), are in all instances to be observed. It is to be most strictly observed, that no Persons shall be employed in the Purchase, Sale, or Exchange of any Commission in His Majesty's Forces, " except "such as are Agents of Regiments, authorized by the "Commander in Chief, or by the Colonels or Com"mandants of Regiments or Corps, and shall act "therein under such regulations only as are, or shall "from time to time be, established by His Majesty, ❝and shall not cause or procure, or knowingly permit, or suffer, to be printed, or advertised, any Advertise"ment or Advertisements, Proposal or Proposals, for "any Purchase, or Sale, or Exchange, of any Com"mission, or any Negociation relating thereto, and ❝ shall not receive or take any money, fee, gratuity, "or reward, or any promise, agreement, covenant, "contract, F 2 Vide Act 49th Geo. III. Chap. 126. Sect. 7 and s. "contract, bond, or assurance, or by any way, means, 66 or device, contract or agree to receive or have any "money, fee, gratuity, or reward, for acting in such "behalf." It is also to be observed, "that every Officer in "His Majesty's Forces, who shall take, accept, or "receive, or pay or agree to pay, any larger Sum of "Money, directly or indirectly, than what is allowed "by any Regulations made by His Majesty in relation "to the Purchase, Sale, or Exchange of Commissions "in His Majesty's Forces, or who shall pay, or cause "to be paid, any Sum of Money to any Agent or "Broker, or other Person, for negociating the Pur"chase or Sale or Exchange of any such Commission, "shall, on being convicted thereof by a General "Court-Martial, forfeit his Commission, and be "cashiered;" and "That every Person who shall sell his Commission in His Majesty's Forces, and not "continue to hold any Commission in His Majesty's "Forces, and shall, upon or in relation to such Sale, take, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, any "money, fee, gratuity, loan of money, reward or "profit, or any promise, agreement, covenant, con"tract, bond or assurance, or shall, by any device or means, contract or agree to receive or have any money, fee, gratuity, loan of money, reward, or profit, beyond the regulated price or value of the "Commission sold, and also every Person, who shall wilfully or knowingly aid, abet, or assist such "person therein, shall be deemed and adjudged "guilty of a Misdemeanor." 66 66 Regulations Regulations to be observed in the Promotion, Exchange, and Resignation of Regimental Officers. No Officer shall be promoted to the Rank of Captain, until he has been Three Years a Subaltern. No Officer shall be promoted to the Rank of Major until he has been Seven Years in the Service, of which he shall have been at least Two Years a Captain; and no Major shall be appointed to the Rank of Lieute nant Colonel, until he has been Nine Years in the Service. No Regimental, Officer, being actually under Orders to join a Regiment or Battalion on Foreign Service, or to embark with a Corps destined for Foreign Service, shall be permitted to exchange into another Regiment, except such Exchange shall be solicited on the ground of extreme ill Health, which must be certified by a Military Medical Officer. Officers, who give in the Resignation of their Commissions, are not in consequence to quit their Regiments, until they receive regular Permission for that purpose. The Colonels or Commanding Officers of Regi ments of Militia are required, previously to their submitting the Resignation of any Officer to the Lords Lieutenants of their respective Counties, to make a communication of their intention, through the General Officer Commanding the Brigade, to the General Officer Commanding the District. RETURN Form of Application for Permission to purchase a Commission in the Army. Sir, I beg you will be pleased to obtain for me His Majesty's Permission to purchase the In case His Majesty shall be graciously pleased to permit me to purchase the said Commission, I do declare, and certify, upon the Word and Honor of an Officer and a Gentleman, that I will not, either now, or at any future Time, give by any Means, or in any Shape whatever, directly, or indirectly, any more than the Sum of £ being the Price limited by His Majesty's Regulation as the full Value of the said Commission. I have the Honor to be, humble Servant, To the Officer Commanding the Regiment of I hereby declare that I verily believe the established Regulation with regard to Price is intended to be strictly complied with, and that no clandestine Bargain subsists between the Parties concerned. Signature of the Colonel or Commanding Officer. Form |