Mode of Application for a Passage Home

Documents on which an AI

mental Agent, to the Transport Board, the following Documents in support of his Claim, viz.

1. A Copy of the Authority from the Commander in Chief for his providing himself with a Passage.

2. A Declaration that his Absence from his Regiment was not occasioned by Leave obtained on his own account.

3. A Certificate from the Master of the Merchant Vessel or Packet in which he intends to proceed, stating that such Officer has engaged for the Passage of himself, and of his Servant, or Servants, and that they are actually embarked.

Officers who may be ordered, on any occasion, to return Home from a Foreign Station, are to apply for a Passage to the principal Agent of the Transport Board, on the Spot; or, in the event of there being no Agent for Transports, they are to make Application for a Passage to the General or other Officer Commanding at the Station.

To entitle an Officer coming Home to the prelowance will be scribed Rate of Allowance for his Passage, he is granted to an required to produce, or to transmit through his Re ing from a Fo- gimental Agent, to the Transport Board in London, reiga Station. the following Documents in support of his Claim, viz.

Officer return

1. A Certificate from the Agent of Transports (or from the General or other Officer Commanding at the Station, if there is no Agent for Transports,)

Transports), stating that he (the Officer) had regularly applied for a Passage, but that none could be furnished in a Government Transport.

2. A Certificate from the General or other Officer Commanding at the Station, stating the Cause on account of which he (the Officer) is ordered to return to England; and that he is not coming home on Leave of Absence on his own account or request.

3. A Certificate from the Master of the Vessel bringing him Home, stating that he had paid for his own Passage, and for that of his Servant, or Servants, specifying the Number.

TABLE of the Number of Servants and Tonnage for Baggage allowed to Officers on Board of Transports, and of the Allowances to be made to Officers proceeding to join their Regiments or Commands abroad, or coming Home, who cannot be accommodated on Board of a Transport.

Allowed in Transports Allowances in lieu of Passages.
To or from To or from)
Tonnage Gibraltar, the West
for.. Bermuda, Indies and Hope, & other

RANKS.

To or from the

No of
Servants.

Cape of Good

Baggage, and North

Mediter

Places beyond

the Equator.

America.

ranean.

N. B. A proportional Deduction will be made for every Servant that may be embarked less than the Number allowed by the above Scale, to the respective Ranks.

Regulations

Regulations respecting the Attendance of Regiments at Places appointed for Divine Worship.

The First Four Articles of the First Section of the Articles of War are declaratory of His Majesty's Pleasure and Commands on the Subject of Divine Worship :-They must be frequently read to the Soldiers, and their Import and Tendency must be enforced by the Precept and Example of their Officers, for which, as for every other Branch of Discipline, the Commanding Officer is responsible.

Officers in Command of Brigades or Regiments, to which Chaplains are not appointed, are enjoined to provide for the regular performance of Divine Service, and for a due Discharge of all Religious Duties towards the Men under their Command, (most particularly of those relating to the Regular Attendance of the Chaplain on the Sick, and at the Hospital,) by the Appointment of proper Persons to officiate as Chaplains :-Their Correspondence on this Subject is to be addressed to the Chaplain-General, under Cover to the Secretary at War.

Officers commanding Detachments and Parties are responsible for the due attendance of the Men under their Orders at the Parish Churches nearest to their Quarters. The Men are to attend Divine Service with their Side Arms, and they are to be marched with the utmost regularity to, and from, the Church, or Place, where Divine Service is performed.

Commanding Officers are enjoined, previous to quitting

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quitting their Stations, to leave with the officiating Clergyman a Certificate of Clerical Duties performed for the Troops under their Orders.

The Chaplain General, on Application, will furnish the Forms of these Certificates, every part of which must be accurately filled up, nor must any part of the Clerical Duties therein prescribed be dispensed with, except in Cases of absolute necessity.

His Majesty has been pleased to assign certain Books for the use of the Patients in the Barrack Hospitals; they will be delivered out by the Barrack Master on the Application of the Commanding Officer or Officiating Chaplain, who is responsible for their being safely returned into the Charge of the Barrack-Master.

Commanding Officers are to address themselves to the Chaplain General in case they should at any time have grounds for Complaint against the Officiating Chaplains.

Commanding Officers of Regiments are to be particularly attentive, that no Soldier professing the Roman Catholic Religion shall be subject to any punishment for not attending the Divine Worship of the Church of England, and that every suck Soldier be at full liberty to attend the Worship of Almighty God according to the Forms prescribed by his Religion, when Military Duty does not interfere.

Regulations