Admiralty Order in Council No. 62.

14 July 1899.

N.

Whereas we have had under our consideration the question of affording more facilities than at present exist to the Junior Officers of Your Majesty's Navy to acquire a knowledge of the French language.

We beg leave most humbly to submit that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to sanction : -

1. That the winner of the Ryder Prize (an annual prize awarded to the Sub-Lieutenant who, when qualifying for the rank of Lieutenant, passes the best examination in French at the Royal Naval College) may receive the pay of an interpreter second class, as specified in the Regulations for the government of Your Majesty's Naval Service, when employed to instruct the Junior Officers of his ship in French, in the event of no officer qualified as interpreter being available.
2. That the existing power, under the above-mentioned Regulations, to pay interpreters' allowance in Flag and Senior Officers' ships, may be extended as regards French, and that the said allowance shall in future be payable for giving instruction in that language in the case of all ships bearing Junior Officers whether at home or abroad.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in these measures.

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