Cljr Orbitatter.
THE expenditure for the Military Non-effective Service of the Ord- nance in 1817 was 242,742/. It now exhibits an increase of one- fifth. This fact alone is sufficient to prove the necessity which exists for some alteration in the present mode of granting Half-pay, Sic. During the major part of the time that this large addition was -made to the Ordnance Dead-weight, that department was under the _control of the rigid and economical Hero of Waterloo. Yet it appears he was either biassed by professional feelings, or the system was too
• strong for him to overcome.
ORDNANCE DEAD-WEIGHT. GILEAT 2,517 Persons. Total for Ordnance £293,931
• The different Collectors of Excise pay pensioners residing in their district, and transmit the receipts as so moch cash to the head office in London, to whom the money is repaid by the Hospital on the production of the receipt. To the rigid theorist this system may seem objectionable, but it might in practice be difficult to find a plan that should be less troublesome either to individuals or the public. The higher rate of pension in the classes marked thus (5) is in consequence of the pensioners ' being totally disabled by blindness or otherwise, or of having served twenty-one years in the Infantry, or twenty-four years in the Cavalry." Voted for 1885-3. 589 . Superannuated and Half-pay Officers X 54,000
-I Retired General Officers 11,032 23 Pensions for Good Services 4,991
- 1 Pension for an Invention 1,200 33 Pensions for Wounds 6,770 1041 Superannuated and Disabled Men 184,000 715 Widows and Children of Officers 23,347
IRELAND.
81 Retired Officers 7,961 -
No. of Persons.
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