REGIMENTAL PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. To take effect from 1st Jan, 1831. WILLIAM R.

Whereas We have deemed it expedient to revise the Warrant of Our late Royal Brother, dated the 25th August 1827, regulating Regimental Pay and Allow. ances: Our Will and Pleasure, therefore, is, that from and after the date hereof, the Pay and Allowances of Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Trumpeters, Drummers, Buglers, Artificers, and Private Men, and the Contingent Regimental Allowances in Our Regiments of Cavalry, and Infantry of the Line, Royal Waggon Train, and Royal Staff Corps, shall be established and issued agreeably to the Rates and Amounts, and under the restrictions specified in the Regulations hereunto annexed: and that no deviation from these Regulations shall, on any account, be permitted, unless Our special Sanction for such deviation be communicated through Our Secretary at War. Given at Our Court, at Brighton, this 31st day of December 1830, in the First Year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty's Command,
C. W. WILLIAMS WYNN.

REGULATIONS.

Regimental Pay and Allowances.

PAY.

1. The rates of daily pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, trumpeters, drummers, artificers, and private men, in the regiments of dragoon guards, dragoons, infantry of the line, waggon train, and staff corps, serving at home, and the daily rates of pay of the officers of those regiments serving abroad, except in the case specified in Article 5, shall be those which are specified in the Schedule No. 1, hereunto annexed.

2. The daily pay of the non-commissioned officers, trumpeters, drummers, artificers, and private men, of the regiments of dragoon guards, dragoons, infantry of the line, waggon train, and staff corps, serving abroad, or on board ship proceeding to, or returning from, a foreign station, shall be issued at the rates specified in Schedule No. 2.

3. The pay of non-commissioned officers and soldiers stationed at Jamaica, shall be issued at the rates specified in the columns marked A of the Schedule No. 2.

4. Private soldiers, when absent from their corps in consequence of being employed abroad as servants to officers, and not receiving rations at the public expense, shall be subject to a deduction of 6d. per diem from the rates of pay stated in Schedule No. 1. If soldiers so employed be supplied with rations at the public expense, they shall receive pay at the same rates as other soldiers on the same station.

5. Officers of regiments of infantry of the line proceeding to, or returning from India, or other stations, on board ships belonging to the East India Company, and accommodated at the table of the commander of the vessel, free of expense to themselves, shall be subject to the following deductions from their daily pay, viz. :

6. The pay of regimental officers on foreign stations shall be subject to a deduction for rations according to the provisions of the warrant dated 22nd July 1830, and officers on board ship, and supplied with rations at the public expense, shall be subject to a stoppage of threepence for each daily ration, except when doing duty on board convict ships, or when embarked on board freight ships.

Soldiers while on board ship proceeding to or from Ireland, or the islands in the Channel, or when going coastwise, shall be subject to a stoppage of sixpence a day from the rates of pay stated in Schedule No. 1. if they are supplied with rations at the expense of Government, or of the East India Company, and are not serving as marines; and they shall be subject to the same stoppage if proceeding by canal, and victualled at the public expense, under any contract entered into with the

proprietors of the vessels in which they

are embarked.

7. Soldiers serving on board ship as marines, shall receive the full rates of pay specified in Schedule No. 1.

8. The non-commissioned officers, trumpeters, artificers, and private men of the regiments of dragoon guards, dragoons, waggon train, and staff corps, shall be settled with weekly, and the non-commissioned officers, drummers, and private men of the regiments of infantry of the line, daily, for the residue of their pay, after deducting the expense of their messing, and washing, and of articles to clean their clothing and appointments, the stop page for necessaries authorized by the clothing warrants, and any other stoppages to which they may have become liable under the sentence of a courtmartial.

The proportion of a soldier's pay to be applied to his mess, shall not exceed the sum of five shillings and a penny a week in the cavalry, and four shillings and seven pence a week in the infantry, including the charge for bread and meat at home, and for rations abroad, unless the soldier shall himself choose to appropriate a farther sum to this purpose.

Soldiers shall be accounted with monthly in the infantry, and every two months in the cavalry, for the weekly stoppage for necessaries directed by the clothing warrants to be made from their pay.

9. Advances of pay to soldiers on furlough are to be issued under such regulations and restrictions, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary at War, but are not to exceed the under-mentioned rates, viz.

12. The pay of soldiers confined in gaols abroad, shall be issued according to the following rules :

If the soldier be imprisoned under the sentence of a court-martial, or for debt, so much of his pay, not exceeding sixpence a day, shall be allowed and issued, as shall be required to provide him with wholesome and sufficient food.

If the soldier be imprisoned upon a charge of a criminal offence, the like proportion of his pay shall be allowed during his confinement; and if he be acquitted of the charge, he shall be accounted with for the residue of his pay upon rejoining his regiment; but if he be convicted of the charge, he shall forfeit all right to such residue.

If the soldier be imprisoned under conviction of a criminal offence, he shall forfeit the whole of his pay during the period of his confinement under the sentence of the court: but when he rejoins his regiment, he shall be completed in necessaries at the public expense, provided the charge does not exceed the amount of three pence a day for the period of his confinement.

13. Soldiers at home, when in barracks or in stationary quarters, shall be supplied with bread and meat after the rate of three quarters of a pound of meat, and one pound of bread a day for each man, the cost thereof being paid by a stoppage not exceeding sixpence a day from the soldier's pay; but if the cost of the bread and meat shall exceed sixpence, the excess shall be charged against the public.

Soldiers in South Britain, on a march and billeted on innkeepers, shall be supplied by the innkeepers with one hot meal each day, such meal to consist of one pound and a quarter of meat, to be weighed previously to being dressed, one pound of bread, one pound of potatoes, or an equivalent of other vegetables, and two pints of small beer, with the necessary quantities of pepper, salt, and vinegar; for which the innkeeper shall receive the sum which may from time to time be fixed in that respect by the Mutiny Act, which sum shall be allowed in the regimental accounts in addition to the soldier's pay.

14. Forage shall be issued for the horses of officers of cavalry according to the fol

15. Every corporal or private soldier who shall have actually served in the cavalry seventeen years, or in the infantry fourteen years, shall be entitled to receive an addition of twopence a day to the rate of pay specified for his rank in the Schedules annexed.

16. Every corporal and private soldier who enlisted into our army before the 25th Jan, 1823, shall, after having served ten years in the cavalry, or seven years in the infantry, be entitled to receive an addition of one penny a day to the rate of pay specified for his rank in the Schedules

annexed.

17. These rates of additional pay shall be subject to the rules prescribed by the regulations annexed to the Pension War

rant, dated 14th Nov. 1829, and to such

other regulations as shall be issued by the Secretary at-War.

ALLOWANCES TO OFFICERS.

The following regimental allowances shall be granted to the officers of the regiments of cavalry and infantry of the line, waggon train, and staff corps :

18. To the colonel, senior effective lieutenant-colonel, and senior major in the regiments of regular cavalry, and regiments or battalions of infantry of the line, excepting West India regiments, twenty pounds per annum in lieu of noneffectives.

19. To the officer commanding and paying a troop or company a contingent

troop on the establishment, * does not exceed 49

is from 50 to 69

70 and upwards

Abroad.

When the number of privates per

troop on the establishment is from 50 to 59

60 to 69

70 to 79

80 to 89 90 to 99

-100 and upwards

£30

40

50

50

60

70

But the officer commanding a troop or company is not liable to defray the expense of a soldier's funeral, unless the effects of the soldier are insufficient for

the purpose; and in no case is the cost of

the same be defrayed by the officer, or

such funeral to exceed 17. 15s. whether

out of the soldier's effects.

of a regiment or battalion of infantry of 20. To the officer actually in command the line, or commanding the reserve companies of a regiment of which the service companies are abroad, an allowance of three shillings per day as command money, in addition to his other regimental pay and allowances. This allowance is, however, not to be received by officers on board ships belonging to the East India Company, if accommodated at the captain's table, free from expense to themselves.

21. Five shillings a day to officers on a march with troops in the United Kingdom, under a route issued by competent authority, provided they shall so march not less than ten miles in a day.

22. An allowance in lieu of forage for one horse to each lieutenant-colonel, major, adjutant, and surgeon of regiments