Admiralty Order in Council No. 207.

24 April 1902.

N.

Whereas by Her late Majesty's Order in Council 6f the Fourth day of July 1895, approval was given to certain additions to the Pay and Allowances of Naval Officers on the Retired List when voluntarily re-employed.

And whereas it is considered expedient that we should possess the power of further rewarding Officers whose service, voluntarily given, may in our opinion, merit special recognition.

We beg leave to recommend that we be empowered to give, at our discretion, promotion to re-employed Officers on the retired List, irrespective of any Regulations governing the eligibility for promotion of Officers on the Active List of Your Majesty's Navy, but such special promotion not to extend to the granting of Flag Rank, nor of any equal relative rank.

We also recommend that the promotion of Officers for such

voluntary service should carry with it the right, in the event of re-employment, to receive the increased rates of pay and allowances of the higher rank, together with the higher scale of compensation for injuries.

We further submit that we be empowered at our discretion to extend this proposal to the case of Retired Officers who have been employed recently in the Naval Transport Service during the war in South .Africa and whose duties have been of a very arduous nature., -

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

N. 5931 / 1902.

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