0.

OATH of Secretary of State as Privy
Councillor, 3.

Oaths, unlawful, by soldiers, 183-185.
Offences committed abroad, 66; may be
prosecuted in the Court of King's
Bench in England, ib.; writ of man-
damus to obtain evidence, 67; warrant
to apprehend for, 68.

Officers, retirement on half-pay, 30, 31,
127, 128; contingent allowances to,
provisions of Mr. Burke's Act, 194;
holding saleable commissions, com-
pensation to, 107.
Officers' Commissions, constitutional
practice regarding the issue of, 31;
issue and signature of, 105; Act dis-
pensing with Royal Sign Manual, ib.;
Orders in Council, ib.; upon the
demise of the Crown remain in force
until cancelled by the succeeding
Sovereign, 106; purchase or sale of
prohibited by Act of 1809, 110; illegal
agency in, 112.

Offices, persons buying or selling, guilty
of a misdemeanor, 110; illegal agency,
112; civil, exemption of military from
serving, 127.

Old Metal Dealers' Act, 1861, 153.
Orders in Council, defining duties of
Officer Commanding in Chief, 4;
fixing Militia quotas, 69; extending
or reducing period of Militia training,
71; dispensing with Militia training,
72; embodying or disembodying
Militia, 72, 73; defining Volunteer
efficiency, 80; defining duties of Fi-
nancial Secretary of the War Office,
102; as to signature of Officers' Com-
missions, 105.

Ordnance Board, statutory powers of
Secretary of State as successor to, 5;
pensions transferred to Chelsea Com-
missioners, 39.

Orphan Funds, Indian Army, see
Military and Orphan Funds."

46

P.

PARISH Authorities, repayment to, of
relief given to out-pensioners, 133,
134.
Parliament, Bills relating to the Army
prepared and introduced into, by the
Secretary at War, 6; anunal appro-
priation accounts to be laid before,
24; elections for members of, stations
of soldiers during, 10, 58, 122; Royal
Warrants promulgating regulations
under the Regimental Debts Act to be
laid before, 182; production of official
documents to, 190-192; reports of the
Comptroller and Auditor-General to,
27, 28; account of officers allowed to
retire in each year to be laid before,

31; regulations as to discharges, pen-
sions, &c., of soldiers to be laid before,
38; military savings banks accounts,
60; Army Reserve Regulations, 78;
Militia Reserve Regulations, 80;
orders to commence hostilities in
India to be communicated to, 89; an
abstract of the accounts of the Army
Purchase Commissioners to be laid
before, 110; procedure of, for aug-
menting the Land Forces, 195; pro-
cedure of, for calling out the Reserves,
195; production of court-martial pro-
ceedings in, 196-198; whether a
member serving under the Army Dis-
cipline Act can attend without leave
from his superior officer, 94, 198.
Parochial Offices, Reserve Men exempt
from serving, 120.

Patent of appointment of Secretary of
State. 1, 2.

Patriotic Fund, 50-54; application of
under Act of 1867, 50; contribution
to royal or other charitable institu-
tions, ib.; official trustees, 50-51;
account at Bank of England, 51;
proceeds of sales to be carried to ac-
count of Paymaster-General, 52; sepa-
rate cash account by Paymaster-
General, ib.; actions, &c., by and
against official trustees, 52; style of
official trustees in deeds, &c., ib.;
audit of accounts, ib.; secretary,
clerks, &c., ib.; pensions and retiring
allowance, ib.; exercise of rights of
nomination to schools, &c., 53; appro-
priations to secure admissions into
various institutions, 53, 54.

Pay and Allowances due to deceased
persons, 56, 57.

Pay, appropriation of, for distribution

amongst creditors, 56, 127; assign-
ments, 128.

Pay Lists, admissible in evidence as to
deaths, 64; credit of effects in, 169.
Paymaster-General, Act for regulating
the office of, 9; duties of the Agent-
General transferred to, ib.; payments
to be made by, 23; empowered to
make rules and regulations for the
payment of half-pay, pensions, &c.,
29-30; trustee for the Army Prize
Fund, 47; trustee for the Patriotic
Fund, 51.

Paymasters, Regimental, Committee of
Adjustment in the case of death of, 176.
Pay of Army and Reserve Forces, annual
estimate for, to be prepared by the
Financial secretary, 103.

Pensions, control of Secretary at War over,
6, 128; Acts relating to, 9, 10; com-
mutation of, 33-37; assignment, &c.,
of, declared void, 128; personation a
felony ib.; Secretary at War em-
powered to make rules and regulations
for the payment of, 29, 30, 46;
granted on abolition of officers or on

re-organization of Departments, power
to Treasury to commute, 33; of
persons transferred from the Indian
to the Regular Army, 93; apportion-
ment between the respective revenues,
ib.; frauds respecting, 46; appropria-
tion of, for distribution amongst
creditors, 56, 127; the Financial
Secretary to advise the Secretary of
State on questions of, 103: see also
"Pensions of Soldiers" and "Com-
mutation."

Pensions of Soldiers, 37-46; grant of,
made by the Commissioners of Chelsea
Hospital, 37; power of the Crown to
issue warrants defining, note on ib. ;
governed by the regulations in force
at the time of enlistment, ib. ; all
regulations made from time to time
to be laid before Parliament annually,
38; may be taken away or refused in
case of frauds or misconduct, ib.;
Secretary at War empowered to make
rules and regulations for the payment
of, 4; granted by Ordnance Board,
transferred to Chelsea Commissioners,
39; payment to guardians for work-
house relief, 39; assignments to
parish authorities as security, 40,
41, 44, 45; payment in case of
desertion of wife or family, 42, 43;
of officers or seamen of the navy
in cases of lunacy, payable to their
wives, &c., 43: forging documents,
felony, 45; accounts to be audited as
Army Effective Services, 46; frauds
respecting, 46; of Army Reserve, re-
gulations to be made by Secretary of
State, 77; under the management of
the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital,
132; suspension or deprivation, 133;
Soldiers, not natives of Great Britain
may commute in certain cases, ib;
assignments, ib.; arrears due at death,
134; see also "Chelsea Hospital."
Pensioners, Army Reserve Act, 1867, to
apply for enrolling, in a Colony, 77 ;
repayment to parish authorities of
relief given to, 133, 134; insane, 134.
Personation in order to receive pay,
pension or allowance, 128.

Portsea, Royal Seamen and Marines

Orphan School at, Patriotic Fund
nominations to, 53.

Postage of Letters, one penny rate for
soldiers at home or abroad, 126.
Preferential charges on personal property

of deceased officer or soldier, 163.
Prerogative powers of Secretary of State,
1-5.

Privy Council, prerogative powers of
Secretary of State conferred by his
admission to, 1; oath on admission
to, 3.

Prize Funds, 47-49; vested in the Pay-
master-General and Secretary at War,
47; public account at the Bank of
England, ib.; power to grant power of

attorney for purchase or sale of stock
and for receipt of dividends, ib.
Prize Money, unclaimed and forfeited
shares of, 47; payment of sum under
1001. due at the death of a claimant,
56; all captures made by the Army
to be disposed of as Her Majesty shall
direct, 124; deserters not entitled to,
ib.; forfeiture of shares not claimed,
124, 125; appraisements and sales of
booty, 125; list of persons entitled to,
to be transmitted to Chelsea Hospital,
125.

Probate may be dispensed with, for the
payment of pay and allowances on the
death of persons entitled to sums
under 1007., 56; for the payment of
arrears of soldiers' pensions, 134.
Probate, Court of, deposit in of original
wills in hands of Secretary of State,
178.

Probate Duty, will of common soldier

exempt from, 162; on personal estate
of officer or soldier, 164, 178.
Proclamation, calling out the Army Re-
serve, issued in 1878, 75; calling out
the Militia Reserve, 79.

Promotions, Military, duty of the Field-
Marshal Commanding in Chief to
select and recommend for, 5; record-
ing, the duty of the Secretary at
War, 6.

Property, personal, of deceased officer
or soldier, 163.

Property tax on house occupied in right
of office to be paid by occupier, 126.
Public Accounts. See" Accounts."
Public Stores Act, 1875, 151-162.
Purchase System, abolition of, 106-110:
compensation to officers holding sale-
able commissions, 107-109; com-
pensation to officers of certain Indian
Regiments, 109. See also Army

Purchase Commission."

Q.

66

QUARTER-MASTER in Cavalry or In-
fantry, to retire on full pay after
thirty years' service, twelve of which
as Quarter-Master, 31, 128; in the
Militia or Volunteers, receives a com-
mission from Her Majesty, 31, 105.
Quarter-Master-General, Officers re-
moved from the Permanent Staff of,
to receive half-pay, 30.

Quotas, Militia, Order in Council
fixing, 69, 70; Militia Reserve, 78.

R.

RAILWAYS, Reserve men entitled to travel
by when proceeding on duty, 120;
carriage of troops, with their baggage
and stores, by, 135; Law Officers'
opinions as to the obligations of, 135–
137; judgments in Irish Courts on the
construction of Act, 137-150.

Ranges, Artillery, prohibition of sweep-

ing, &c., near, 152, 153.
Realm, prerogative of the Crown to
prohibit any subject from leaving, note
on, 94.

Re-engagement of soldiers under the
Army Enlistment Act 1867, 113;
under the Army Enlistment Act 1870,
116.

Regimental Debts Act, 9, 55, 162–182;

Royal Warrants, promulgating regula-
tions under, note on 164, 165, 182;
validity of payments, sales, &c., under,
182; indemnity to officers and others
acting under, ib.

Regimental Exchange Act 1875, 112.
Regimental Expenditure, delivery and
audit of accounts, 11.

Register of Middlesex, securities regis-
tered in the office of, 13.
Registration of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages out of the United King-
dom, Act of 1879, 63; registers to be
transmitted to the Registrar-General,
ib.; existing documents admissible in
evidence, 64.

Regulation of the Forces Act, 1871,
provisions to compensate officers hold-
ing saleable commissions, 107; com-
pensation to officers of certain Indian
Regiments, 109.

Reserve, Army, Act of 1867, 74-78,
118-120; term of service to be pre-
scribed by regulations, 74; appoint-
ments of officers, ib.; period of train-
ing not to exceed 12 days in each
year, 74, 118; may be called out in
aid of civil power, 75, 119; in case of
danger or emergency may be called
out for permanent service, 75, 119,
195; proclamation issued in 1878, 75;
may volunteer for duty, 76, 119;
power of volunteering extended by
Army Discipline Act, 1879, 77; regu-
lations to be made by Secretary of
State under Act of 1867, 77, 120;
warrants and regulations to be laid
before Parliament, 78; enlistment for
1st Class, 115, 117; description of
men in each class, 118; description of
service, ib.; annual training, ib.; as to
calling out, 119; volunteering duty, ib;
liability to the Mutiny Act, ib.; ex-
emption from civil offices, 127.
Reserve Force, Act to establish, 10.
Reserve Forces, duties of the Field-
Marshal Commanding in Chief in
regard to, 4.

Reserve Men, when to be deemed de-
serters, 120; punishment for absence
or desertion, ib.; penalty for damaging
or selling, or purchasing accoutre-
ments, &c., ib.

Reserve, Militia, Act of 1867, 78-80,

120, 121; establishment not to exceed
one-fourth part of Militia quota, 78;
to consist of such number as may
from time to time be provided by

Parliament, note on 78; may
volunteer for training with the
army, ib.; Secretary of State may dis-
charge men, 79, 121; in what event
men may be ordered on army service,
79, 121, 195; effect of order for entry
upon army service, 79, 121; power to
Secretary of State to make regulations,
80; regulations to be laid before Par-
liament, ib.; to rejoin Militia regi-
ments when discharged from army
service, 121

Retired Allowances. Power of the
Crown limited by statute, note on, 30.
Retirement, on half-pay, of officers unfit
for service, 30, 127; form of certificate
necessary, 31, 128; an account of the
officers allowed to retire to be laid
before Parliament annually, 31.
Rewards, Military, recommendations for,
made by the Field-Marshal Command-
ing in Chief, 5.

Rodriquez Fund, application of the same
as of the Patriotic Fund, 53, 54.
Route for the conveyance of troops by
railway, 135.

Royal Naval and Military Free School at
Devonport, appropriation of Patriotic
Fund to secure admissions to, 53.
Royal Naval Female School at St.
Margaret's, Isleworth, appropriation
of Patriotic Fund to secure admissions
to, 54.

Royal Naval School, New Cross, appro-
priation of Patriotic Fund to secure
admissions to, 54.

Royal Seamen and Marines Orphan
School, Portsea, appropriation of
Patriotic Fund to secure admissions
to, 53.

Royal Sign Manual, issue of commissions
under, 32, 105.

Royal Warrant, abolition of the Pur-
chase System by, 106.

S.

SALE of Military Commissions, prohibi-
tion of, 110.

Sale of effects of deceased officer or
soldier, 166, 182; disposal of surplus,
170.

Sale of offices, agency for, illegal, 112.
Savings Banks, military, Act relating
to, 10, 59, 122; accounts to be laid
before Parliament annually, 60; not
within the provisions of Savings
Banks' Acts, ib.; deposits to be
applied to public expenditure, and
payments made out of grants for
ordinary services, 59; payment of
moneys to the Commissioners for the
reduction of the National Debt, ib;
account of the Paymaster-General
at the Bank of England, 60; Estab-
lishment of and regulations for, 122,
123; interest on deposits, ib.; with-

Р

drawals upon the occasion of regiments
proceeding to India, 123; deposit
of regimental charitable funds in, ib.
Schools, Patriotic Fund nominations to,
53, 54.

Scotland, securities from persons holding
office in, 15.

Seals of the War Department held by
the Secretary of State, 7.
Secretary at War. Commission appoint-
ing, 5; memorandum of duties, 6;
deputy's duties, 7; office abolished
and duties transferred to the Secretary
of State, 7; orders, &c., to remain in
force, 8; payment of half-pay, pen-
sions, &c., controlled by, 29, 30;
responsible to Parliament for the
Half-Pay List, 31; trustee for the
Army Prize Fund, 47; trustee for the
Drouly Prize Fund, 48.

Secretary of State for War. Prerogative
powers, 1-5; patent of appointment,
1, 2; oath as a Privy Councillor,
3; Secretary at War's duties trans-
ferred to, 7; monies, &c., in the
Bank of England and Court of
Chancery transferred to, 8; signature
of Officers' Commissions by, 31-32,
105-106; disposal of effects by, 172-
175; trustee of the Patriotic Fund,
50, 51; the constitutional minister
responsible to Parliament for the due
administration of justice under the
Army Discipline Act, 94; the custodian
of official records, 190-192.
Securities, in the name of the Secretary
at War transferred to the Secretary
of State, 8; from public accountants,
11-21; from persons holding offices in
Scotland, 15; to be given within
certain periods after appointment, 12;
an officer in every department to keep
and register, 13; annual accounts to
be laid before the heads of depart-
ments, ib.; death or bankruptcy of
sureties, 14, 15; period for registry,
16; transfer of stock or deposit of
exchequer bills, 16-20; power of
Treasury to vary, 21,

Service, extension of, 115, 117; reckon-

ing time for discharge, 113, 114, 117;
terms of, under the Act of 1847, 113;
under the Act of 1867, 113, 114;
under the Act of 1870, 115; in the
Army Reserve, 118-121.
Ship-Building, for a foreign state at war
with a friendly state, illegal, 96.
Ships, forfeiture of, for offences against

the Foreign Enlistment Act, 97;
seizure and detention of, ib.; special
power of local authority to detain 99.
Staff, appointments to, made on the
recommendation of the Field-Marshal
Commanding in Chief, 5.

Stamp duty. Power of attorney for
sale or purchase of prize stock exempt
from, 47, 49.

Standing Army, see "Army."

State papers-rule of law as to the pro-
duction of, 190-192.

Stock, &c., standing in the name of the
Secretary of State, 8; transfer of as
security to departments of the Re-
venue, 16-19; sale of upon certificate
of defanlt, 17; accounts of, at banks,
23.

Storehouses of Volunteer Corps free from
local rates and assessments, 82.
Stores, carriage by railway, 135; public,
Act of 1875, 151-162; marks appro-
priated for, 151, 161; unlawful pos-
session of, 152.

Superannuation Allowance. See "Pen-
sions."

Strategical information, collection and
record of, the duty cf the office of
Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief,

5.

Supply of public moneys, 22, 23.
Sureties, death or bankruptcy of, 14. See
also "Securities."

T.

TAX, property, payment of in respect of
house occupied in right of office, 126;
on men servants, exemption of officers
from, 126, 127.

Tolls, Reserve men exempt from, when
proceeding on duty, 120.
Topography. The collection of infor-

mation the duty of the office of the
Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief, 5.
Training of the Army Reserve not to
exceed 12 days or 20 drills in one
year, 118; to arms, without authority
illegal, 185.

Trains, railway, accommodation in for
conveyance of troops and baggage,

135.

Volunteer Force. Adjutants' commmis-
sions, 31, 105; Requisites of efficiency
to be declared by Order in Council,
80; draft of any scheme to be laid
before Parliament, 81; power to
Secretary of State to make regula-
tions, 81; in case of invasion may be
called out for actual military service,
ib.; courts of inquiry, ib.; release of
corps from actual military service, 81;
power for corps to make rules subject
to the approval of the Crown, 82;
appointment of storehouses for arms,
ib.; first commissions to permanent
rank issued under Royal Sign Manual,

Widows of officers, annuities out of the
Drouly Prize Fund payable to, 49;
duties of Secretary at War in regard
to pensions to, 6.

Wills, of soldiers in actual military ser-
vice, 162; forms of, provided for
soldiers, note on 162; of deceased
officer or soldier to be transmitted to
the Secretary of State, 169; deposit
of, in Court of Probate, 178.
Windham's Act, note on, 37.
Wives, of pensioners, payment to guar-

dians for relief of, 42, 43; of soldiers
entitled to ask relief while on their
route to place of settlement, 57. See
also "Families."

Workhouse, payment to guardians for
pensioners admitted into, 39.
Yeomanry Force, Act of 1804,
amended by later statutes, 82-88;
formation and disbandment of corps,
82; assembly in cases of invasion, 83;
liability to the Army Discipline and
Regulation Act 1879, 83, 81; corps
doing military duty may be placed
under the command of General
Officers, 84; power of Commanding
Officers to discharge members, 84;
pay of Volunteers when assembled on
invasion, 85, 86; billeting and pay
when assembled for training and
exercise, 86, 87; not subject to the
Mutiny Laws when assembled for
training and exercise, ib.; approval of
rules and regulations, 88; first com-
missions to permanent rank to be
issued under Her Majesty's Royal
Sign Manual, 106; officers exempt
from serving upon juries or inquests,
127.