That such Hospital Mates as may remove from one Department of the Hospital to another, shall nevertheless be required to prove themselves qualified, by examination, for the Department to which they may be about to remove, but they may be allowed, before joining the Hospital, to prove themselves qualified for every. Department, by undergoing the different necessary examinations.

That the Widows of such as shall have served as Hospital Mates abroad, and: shall die on Full Pay, shall be allowed a Pension of Sixteen Pounds per Annum ; and the Children of such Hospital Mates, and the Widows and Children of such as shall die on Half Pay, shall have such Allowances as the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, upon consideration of the circumstances of their case, shall think fit to grant.

Hospital Mates

That all Dispensers of Hospitals shall receive, when employed, a. Full Pay of Ten Shillings per Day : and when unemployed, a Half Pay of Five Shillings per Day.

That Dispensers, when a Residence a not provided for them, shall be allowed Twelve Shillings per Week Lodging Money.

Dispensers of Hospitals

It is proposed that the Number of Assistants, heretofore called. Surgeon's Mates, to be allowed to the Surgeons of. His Majesty's Ships, shall, in future, be regulated as follows :

Assistants to Surgeons of Ships.

First Rate

3 Assistants

Second ditto

2 ditto

Third ditto

2 ditto

Fourth ditto

2 ditto

Hospital Ships

3 ditto

And all other Ships entitled according to the existing Regulations to bear Mates

1 ditto

That no Person shall in future be appointed to serve as an Assistant to the Surgeon of any of His Majesty's Ships, who shall not have been found qualified on examination to serve as Surgeon, or as first Assistant, that the Pay of Assistants so qualified shall be Six Shillings and Sixpence a Day, besides the Ship's Provisions, with Half Pay when reduced at the Rate of Two Shillings per Day (provided they shall then have served two Years subsequent to the date .of this Regulation) and Three Shillings Per Day, if they shall have served three Years from that Date ; that such Assistants shall be required to furnish themselves with such Surgical Instruments as the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen shall direct, and that they shall be rated on the Ship's Books, where the complement admits of more than one, according to their Seniority on the .List, to be kept by the Sick and Wounded Board.

Whereas there are many Surgeon's Mates now serving on board His Majesty's Ships, who have not obtained, and who may not for some time .hare an Opportunity of obtaining, the Qualification before required, it is proposed that such as serve as First or Second Mates, or Assistants, shall be allowed Five Shillings per Day, and those rated Third Mates, or Assistants, Four Shillings per Day. Those three Classes of Assistants not to be required to provide Instruments, nor shall they be allowed Half Pay ; it is submitted that they should nevertheless, on proving themselves duly qualified, be placed on the same List with the other Assistants, from the Date of the first Appointment they may receive after such Qualification, and commence the time to be reckoned for Half Pay from such Appointment.

All Surgeons of the Navy who shall not have served in the whole, six Years, of which not more than three Years as Hospital Mate, or Assistant Surgeon, shall be allowed, it is proposed shall receive, when employed, a Full Pay of Ten Shillings per Day, and when not employed a Half Pay of Five Shillings per Day.

That Surgeons of Ships in active Service, after having served six Years, of which not more than three Years time as Hospital Mate, or Assistant Surgeon, shall be :allowed, shall be paid Eleven Shillings per Day ; their Half Pay to be Six Shillings per Day.

That after having served ten Years, allowing not more than three Years as Hospital Mate, or Assistant Surgeon, the Surgeon's Full-Pay shall be augmented to Fourteen Shillings per Day; his Half-Pay to remain at Six Shillings per Day.

Surgeons of Ships

That Surgeons of Receiving Ships, Sloops, Convalescent Ships, Prison Ships, and all other Ships, except Hospital Ships employed only in Harbour Duty, shall be allowed Full-Pay, Ten Shillings per Day, with Half-Pay according to the time of their Service.

That Surgeons appointed to Hospital Ships shall receive a Full-Pay of Fifteen Shillings per Day, unless in cases where, by the length of their Services, they may have become entitled to a superior rate of Payment, their Half-pay to be regulated as in the case of Surgeons of other Ships, by the length of their service.

That every Surgeon in the Navy, excepting Surgeons serving on board Receiving Ships, Slop Ships, Convalescent Ships, and any other Ships than Hospital Ships employed only in Harbour Duty, shall, after twenty Years service on Full-Pay, including not more than three Years time. as Hospital Mate, or Assistant Surgeon, be allowed Eighteen Shillings per Day ; and after such length of Service, all Surgeons, in whatever Ships they may have served, shall have a claim to retire on a Half-Pay of Six Shillings per Day ; but if the cause of their retirement shall be ill health, contracted in the service, and it shall be so certified by the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen, the rate of Half-Pay on such retirement, after twenty Years actual Service, shall be Ten Shillings par Day.

That every Surgeon in the Navy, after thirty Years service on Full-pay, including not more than three Years as Hospital Mate, or Assistant Surgeon shall have an unqualified right to retire on Half-Pay, at the rate of Fifteen Shillings per Day.

That Medicines and Utensils shall be provided for the service of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels, at the expence of Government, in such proportions as shall from time to time, be arranged by the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen ; but the Surgeons shall be required to provide, at their own expence, such Surgical Instruments is shall be judged necessary by the said Commissioners.

That Surgeons of hospitals shall be selected from the List of Naval Surgeons and shall be allowed Fifteen Shillings per Day on their first Appointment, and Twenty Shillings per Day, after having served ten Years in Hospitals : their Half Pay to depend on the length of their services, at the same rate as is proposed in regard to Surgeons of Ships.

That Surgeons of Hospitals, when not provided with a Residence within the Hospital, shall be allowed Fifteen Shillings per Week for Lodging Money.

In all cases, time served by Surgeons or Assistant Surgeons of His Majesty's Navy in Hospitals, to be added to and calculated with their time served on board ship.

That Surgeons of Naval Hospitals, of Dock Yards, of Royal Marine Infirmaries, being on the List of Naval Surgeons, shall, from completing the respective terms of twenty and thirty Years service, derive the same advantage as those who shall have served on board ship.

And whereas, at the present time, some of the Surgeons of Naval Hospitals may not have served on board Ship, it is proposed, that the advantage of this Regulation shall extend only to those already appointed, and that their Full-Pay and Half-Pay and Retirement, shall be regulated by the time they have served, as in the case of those who have been employed on board Ship.

Surgeons of Hospitals

That no Person shall be appointed Physician to a Fleet, or an Hospital, who shall not have served as Surgeon at least five Years, the Daily Pay of a Physician, on his first appointment, to be One Guinea per Day ; his Half-Pay Half-a-Guinea per Day.

That when he shall have served three Years as Physician to a Fleet, or an Hospital, his Full Pay shall be One Guinea and a Half Per Day; his Half Pay, Fifteen Shillings per Day.

That the Full-Pay of a Physician, who shall have served in that capacity more than ten Years, shall be Two Guineas per Day ; and his Half-Pay One Guinea per Day.

That Physicians, when a Residence is not provided for them, shall be allowed One Guinea per Week for Lodging Money.

That the Physicians' and Surgeons' Widows be allowed such a Pension as the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty shall think it right to grant, in proportion to the time of their Husbands� service.

That none of the Officers before-mentioned, who shall retire from their respective employments without the approbation of the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen, or who shall refuse to serve when called on, if judged capable of service, shall be allowed to receive Half-Pay, nor shall their Names remain on the Navy List. Their Widows will not, in consequence, be entitled to any Pension.

It is proposed that no Officer, of whatever description, shall be entitled to any of the advantages arising from this Regulation, who shall not have served during the present War, or shall have satisfied the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen of his inability to serve; but that such Persons shall be permitted to remain on the same Establishment on which they now respectively happen to be.

Physicians to a Fleets, or an Hospitals