to take special care that such Monies are expended in strict conformity to His Majesty's Regulations, with a due Regard to the Comfort and Advantage of the Soldier.

In the Absence of the Captain, the Subaltern Officer appointed to the Command of the Troop or Company is entitled to the Contingent Allowance for the Time being, and the same is to be appropri ated accordingly, under the Authority of the Commanding Officer of the Regiment.

The Proportion of the Captain's Allowance in the Infantry Service, which is termed "Non-effective Allowance," viz. £20 per Year, is exclusively the Property of the Captain of the Company.

Great Caution is to be used in the Appointment of Pay-Serjeants; and on no account whatever is the Serjeant-Major, Pay-Master's Clerk, or other StaffSerjeant, to be employed as Pay-Serjeant to a Company, which duty is invariably to be discharged by a Serjeant mustered in, and actually serving with, the Company.

Officers Commanding Regiments and Corps of every Description in Great Britain or Ireland are required to certify, on the Return which they transmit to the Adjutant-General on the 10th of each Month, that the Monthly Settlement in the Infantry and the Two-Monthly Settlement in the Cavalry, of the Accounts of the Men, have been duly made by the Captains or Officers Commanding Troops or Companies,

Absentees.

panies, and that the Balances have been paid to the Men. Officers commanding Regiments or Detachments on Foreign Stations are required to render a similar Certificate, on or before the last day in each Month, to the General Officer under whose Command they are serving.

Whenever any Officer, Non-commissioned Officer, or Private Soldier, shall under any Circumstances obtain Leave to be absent from his Regiment, he is required to leave his Address with the Adjutant of the Regiment, in order that any Regimental Orders, which may be necessary, may be readily communicated to him, and he must at all times be prepared to rejoin the Regiment on the shortest notice.

Soldiers emNo Soldier is to be employed as an Officer's Servant, ployed as Ofcers' Servants who is not perfect in the Drill, and who has not acquired a complete knowledge of his Duty as a Soldier Soldiers who are allowed to attend Officers, are at all times to have their Arms, Clothing, Necessaries, and every other Article of Regimental Equipment, in perfect good order, and in every respect complete. They are to mount Guard with the Officers whom they are allowed to attend, and are to perform their share of the duty of the Guard. They are to fall in with their respective Companies at all Reviews, Field Days, Inspections, and Marches. The Bât Man allowed to the Surgeon, for the care of the Horse carrying the Instruments and other Articles of Chirurgical Apparatus, is an exception to the latter Clause.

No

No Non-Commissioned Officer is on any Account to be permitted to act as an Officer's Servant.

The Horse drawing the Cart conveying the Intrenching Tools, is to be led by one of the Pioneers.

When a Battalion takes the Field, and the Tents are conveyed on Horses, one Bât Man is allowed to each of the Field Officers, and one to each of the Captains of Companies, for the care of the Horses carrying the Camp Equipage, and those Men are, for the time they are thus employed, exempted from all ether Regimental Duties.

No Men are to be allowed to sleep out of their Restrictions Quarters, except such as have Families, and who are, respecting sleeping out of together with their Wives, of good Characters, and Quarters. who (if not married previous to inlistment) have married with the Consent of their Commanding Officer.

All Gaming in Garrison, Camp, or Cantonments, Gaming. is strictly forbidden.

Orders.

No Officer in the Temporary Command of a Re- Regimental giment, shall give out any Orders in contradiction to those issued by the Senior Lieutenant-Colonel, (which are always supposed to have the implied, if not the actual, approbation of the Colonel,) without a reference to the Colonel, or the authority of the General Officer, under whose immediate Command the Regiment may be placed.

No Soldier is, on any pretence whatever, to sell his Penalty of sellBread, Wood, Forage, or other Allowance, his Am- ing any part of military Allowmunition, or any part of his Regimental Appointe ances or Eqnip

ments.

ment.

Formation of
Troops and
Companies.

Orders to be read and explained.

Articles of War and General Orders to be

every Two

Months at Beast.

inents. Soldiers convicted of this Crime will be most severely punished; and all Persons purchasing the above Articles from Soldiers must be prosecuted for the Offence to the utmost Rigour of the Law :Every Article of a Soldier's Regimental Necessaries, which is capable of receiving a Mark, is to be marked with permanent Ink, with the Owner's Name, the Letter of the Company, and the Number of the Regiment, to which he belongs.

The Instructions for the Formation of Regiments into Troops or Companies are contained in His Majesty's Regulations for the Field Exercise and Movements of Cavalry and Infantry :-The Grenadier and Light Infantry Companies are to be completed with proper Men out of their respective Battalions, and to be kept as complete as Circumstances will permit.

All Orders relating to the Men are to be read and explained to them by an Officer of each Company, at three successive Parades after such Orders are given out.

The Articles of War are to be read once in every Two Months to the Officers and Men (agreeable to his read once in Majesty's Orders therein expressed), in presence of the Commanding Officer; the Officers are to be at the head of their respective Troops or Companies: The strictest Silence is to be kept, and that respectful Attention given, which is due to the Declaration of Orders proceeding immediately from His Majesty. In like manner, whatever parts of the present or future General Orders are meant to regulate the Conduct of the Officers and Men, are to be read and

carefully

carefully explained to them, at least, once in every Two Months. The Obedience of this Order is to be regularly certified by the Commanding Officer.

diers to be

It is the Duty of all Officers to take notice of any Improper ConNegligence or Impropriety of Conduct in Non-com- duct of Sol. missioned Officers and Soldiers, whether on Duty or noticed. off Duty, although the Person or Persons so offending should not belong to their particular Regiment. Any Neglect of Duty they are immediately to report to the Officer Commanding the Guard on which it nas occurred; and they are enjoined to confine, and to report to the Commanding Officer of the Regiment to which the Offenders belong, any Non-Commissioned Officers or Soldiers they may detect in disorderly Practices, or who may appear out of their Quarters, conducting themselves in manner unbecoming Soldiers. A Registry is to be kept in each Regiment of the Names of such Men as are guilty of Misconduct, in which the Nature of their Offence is to be detailed, and the Consequences (whether Forgiveness or Punishment) are to be entered: a Reference to this Document will give the Commanding Officer an Insight into that part of his Regiment which most requires his Superintendence, and by timely Reproof and salutary Restrictions, he will often avoid having recourse to severe Corporal Punishments, which should be reserved for Crimes of an aggravated and heinous Nature.

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Officers Commanding Detachments, not having any Medical Aid. Medical Staff Officer attached to them, are imme

diately, on arrival at their Stations, to enquire whether