Money Prizes for Good Shooting with Heavy Guns and Additional Pay to Captains of Turret who re-engage after completing time for pension
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Admiralty Order in Council No. 79
G.
28 November 1899.
Whereas it is desirable to encourage good shooting with Heavy Guns in Your Majesty's Navy by the payment of Money Prizes to Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines of Your Majesty's Fleet for such good shooting, and also to award additional pay to Captains of Turrets, as an inducement to re-engage for one or two. further terms of service of five years after completing time for pension.
We humbly beg leave to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to sanction the allowances shown in the following schedule :-
Schedule.
| Description of Allowance. |
Amount. |
| Annual Prize Firing with Heavy Guns : - |
Capitation allowance of 6d, on authorised complement of ship.
To take effect from 1st January 1887. |
Petty Officers,
Seamen of the Fleet, and
Royal Marines. |
Prizes to be awarded at the discretion of the Captain of the Ship in accordance with the regulations laid down in the Gunnery Manual |
| Prizes for proficiency in Target Practice with Heavy Guns to be awarded in each of the three quarters, other than the one in which Annual Prize Firing is carried out : - |
Quarterly capitation allowance of 3d, on authorised complement of ship.
To take effect from 1st January 1900. |
Petty Officers,
Seamen of the Fleet, and
Royal Marines. |
Prizes to be awarded at the discretion of the Captain of the Ship in accordance with the regulations laid down in the Gunnery Manual |
| Additional pay to Captains of Turrets who reengage after completing time for pension. |
1s, a day continuously in addition to the Extension Pay of 6d. a day, to which they are entitled under Order in Council of 14th August 1878.
To take effect from 1st January 1900. |
The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in these proposed.
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