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which is reported to be deficient in its Discipline, Appearance, or Movements in the Field.

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Officers belonging to Regiments stationed in Great Certificates of Britain or Ireland, who may be unavoidably prevented Officers befrom joining by ill Health, are in due time to transmit longing to Regiments at to the Commanding Officers of their Regiments Home. Certificates of the same, signed by a Military Medical Officer; in which the Nature of their Complaints, and the Medical Officer's opinion as to the Period by which they will be competent to resume their Military Duty, are to be fully stated. Whenever Officers coming under this description are in London, or its Vicinity, these Certificates must be sigued by one of the Principal Officers of the Army Medical Department, or, if in Dublin, by one of the Principal Officers of the Army Medical Board on that Establishment :-The following is the Form of Medical Certificate which is to be made use of on the occasion.

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Applications on account of

ill Health from

Officers belonging to Regiments abroad

In instances wherein an Officer belonging to a Regiment at Home may be absent on account of ill Health (a Monthly Certificate of which, according to the prescribed Form, is to be transmitted to the Regiment), the General Officer Commanding the District, or Brigade, to which the Regiment belongs, is autherized to grant such Officer a Monthly Certificate of Leave for Three successive Months, provided his State of Health renders him incapable of Regimental Duty for so long a Period, and that the General Officer is satisfied with the Causes assigned in the Certificate from a Military Medical Officer, which must be transmitted so as to arrive at the Regimental Head-Quarters, on, or before, the 24th of each Month; but in case of an Officer continuing absent from Sickness for a longer Period than Three Months, it will be incumbent on the Officer Commanding the Regiment to require an especial Report of his case from the Medical Officer by whom the Certificate is signed, and to transmit the same, through the regular Channel, for the consideration of the Commander in Chief.

Officers belonging to Regiments abroad, who may apply for Leave of Absence on Account of ill Health, are to transmit to the Adjutant-General a Certificate (according to the prescribed Form) of their Inability to join, and the probable time in which they may be sufficiently recovered to perform their duty, signed, if in London or its vicinity, by one of the Principal Officers of the Army Medical Department; bat in every instance these Certificates must be signed by some Military Medical Officer, and they will, from time to time, be referred to the consideration of the Principal Officers of that Department.

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No Leave of Absence granted by General or other Extent of Officers, commanding on Foreign Stations, is to be Leaves of Absence granted considered as valid for more than six months from the by General time of its being granted, with the exception of India Officers comand New South Wales, for which stations twelve Abroad. months are allowed; nor can such Leave be renewed by any other authority than that of His Majesty.

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Officers to

Absence is

Whenever Leave of Absence is granted to any Officer, A Certificate to whether belonging to a Regiment at Home or Abroad, be given to all a Certificate (according to the Form annexed) pro- whom Leave of perly signed, shall be delivered to the Officer receiving the Indulgence, stating the particular Circumstances under which it was granted, and the Period of its Commencement and Termination.

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N. B. The Officer receiving Leave of Absence is to keep the Certificate in his own possession, or to deposit it with his Regimental Agents.

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Officers to rejoin their Regiments on the day on which

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Regimental Pay-Masters are to certify the Period te which Officers, going on Leave of Absence, have rereceived their Pay.

Officers (as well as Non-commissioned Officers and Private Soldiers) belonging to Regiments serving in Great Britain or Ireland, who receive Leave to be absent from their Regimental Duty, are expected to be present with their Regiments on the day on which the Periods of their Leave terminate.

The Pay of all Officers who neglect to join their overstay their Regiments on the Expiration of their Leave of Leave of Ab- Absence, will, without further notice, be stopped, nor

sence to be

stopped.

will the Pay so respited be issued to them, unless, through the medium of their Commanding Officers, they can assign the most satisfactory Reasons for their Absence.

Officers belonging to Regiments Abroad, who receive Leave to return Home, are expected to take their Passage for the purpose of returning to their Regiments previous to the day on which their Leaves of Absence expire-In the event of their being unable to procure a Passage previous to the date of the expiration of their Leave of Absence, they must report themselves in writing to the Adjutant-General, and to the Commandant at the Military Depôt in the Isle of Wight.

The Regimental Agents are hereby strictly forbidden to issue Regimental Pay to any Officer belonging to a Regiment Abroad, who shall have remained at Home after the expiration of his Leave of Absence, unless he shall have duly joined at the Military Depôt in the Isle of Wight, or at such other Station as may be directed by the Adjutant-General.

Regulations

Regulations to be observed in granting Furloughs to Non-commissioned Officers and Private Soldiers.

Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers going on Leave of Absence, shall receive Furloughs (according to the annexed Form) signed by the Commanding Officer; and these Furloughs shall be delivered to the Men, free of any Expence or Fee.

Although Justices of the Peace are authorized by Act of Parliament to grant in Writing under their Hands, Extension of Furloughs to Non-commissioned Officers or Soldiers, on account of Sickness, or other unavoidable Casualty, which shall, on due Enquiry, appear to the Justices to render an Extension necessary; yet should it afterwards appear that any Non-commissioned Officer or Soldier shall have obtained an Extension of his Furlough by false Representation made to the Justice, or, in applying for and obtaining the same, shall have committed any Offence to the Prejudice of good Order and Military Discipline, such Non-commissioned Officer or Soldier may be proceeded against and punished according to the Articles of War.

In the event of Soldiers being detained by Sickness, or other unavoidable Casualty, in London, or in its immediate Vicinity, the Regimental Agents are authorized, after duly investigating the Circumstances which occasion their Detention, and ascertaining the Authenticity of their Furloughs, to prolong the same for a sufficient Period to enable them to rejoin their Regiments

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