I A. B. of

Form of Assignment of Mortgage.

paid to me by C. D. of

in consideration of the sum of

do hereby assign to the said

C. D., his executors, administrators, and assigns, a certain mortgage, numbered made by the Justices of the county of

[or the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of or as the case may be,] bearing date the

for securing the sum of

day of and

interest thereon, [or, (if such transfer be by indorsement) the within security,] and all my right and interest to and in the monies thereby secured, and the rates (or lands, tenements, and hereditaments,) thereby assigned. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Scal this day of

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* In Ireland, the form runs T.A.B., Foreman of the Grand Jury of

(or Lord Mayor and Town Council, as the case may be,) in consideration, &c.

It is important for the public service, and for the interest of the prisoner, that this part of the return should be accurately filled up, and the details should be inserted by the magistrate in his own handwriting, or under his direction, by his clerk.

I do hereby certify, that the prisoner has been duly examined before me as to the circumstances herein stated, and has declared in my presence that he * absent himself from the before-mentioned corps.

Signature and Address of Magistrate.

Signature of Prisoner.

Signature of Informant.

I certify, that I have inspected the prisoner, and consider him fit for military service. †

Signature of Military Medical Officer, or
Private Medical Practitioner.

Insert "did" or "did not," as the case may be.

+ Insert "fit" or unfit," as the case may be; and if unfit, state the cause of unfitness. No fee will be allowed to a private medical practitioner where a military medical

officer is stationed, unless it is shown that his services were not available.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX, No. 1.*

PROMOTIONS, EXCHANGES, AND RETIREMENT.

Although the following Warrant does not expressly repeal former regulations respecting promotion and retirement, it appears to do so virtually, as it speaks in toto of the future; however, it does not alter exchanges, which remain as heretofore.

WARRANT REGULATING FUTURE PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS IN THE ARMY.

VICTORIA R.

WHEREAS We have approved the recommendations of the Commissioners, appointed by our authority to inquire into the several modes of promotion and retirement in our military forces: Our will and pleasure is, that from and after the date hereof, the following Rules shall be established for the future Promotion and Retirement of Officers in the Army, and that by these our rules our Commander-in-Chief shall govern himself in recommending Officers for promotion or retirement:

PROMOTION.

1. That the rank of Field-Marshal be given without reference to seniority. 2. That general periodical brevets be for the future abolished.

3. That there shall be a fixed establishment, for the Guards and the Line, of 100 General Officers upon unattached pay, in addition to the General Officers who are Colonels of regiments, making in all 234, of whom 50 shall be Generals, 70 Lieutenant-Generals, and 114 Major-Generals.

4. That, until the existing establishment of General Officers be reduced to 234, the senior Colonels on the list shall be promoted, or the supernumerary previously promoted for distinguished service shall be admitted alternately, after the third vacancy on the fixed General Officers' list-this limitation being observed until the excess be reduced.

5. That the Major-Generals hereafter promoted for distinguished service, shall, after the number of Generals on the fixed establishment has been reduced to 234, be placed on the permanent General Officers' list, in the proportion of one Major-General for two vacancies-the second vacancy being filled by seniority from the Colonels' list.

Referred to in page 84.

6. That those General-Officers in the receipt of the half-pay only of their last regimental commissions be not included in the 234 above-mentioned, but that their names be printed, according to their seniority, on the same list with the others as now, but with an asterisk prefixed to them.

7. That the rank of full Colonel be given to Officers, after serving for three years with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, in the actual command of regiments, or for the same period as second Lieutenant-Colonels of regiments, or as Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, or Major in the household cavalry, or as mounted officers of the Guards, or on the Staff in the following situations, viz.-Assistant Adjutant-General, Assistant Quartermaster General, Military Secretary (or Assistant Military Secretary, where there shall be no Military Secretary) to such General Officers alone as are exercising the supreme command on a station, or Commissioner to the head quarters of an allied army, or after serving six years with the rank of LieutenantColonel as Equerry to the Sovereign.

8. That Field-Officers, commissioned as such before the 20th June, 1854, be allowed to rise by brevet, as under the regulations then in force; but no Officer promoted to the rank of Field-Officer on or after that date is to rise from the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel to that of Colonel, otherwise than by three years' service in the former rank, as above described, or as a reward for distinguished service, or by appointment to be Queen's Aide-de-Camp.

9. That in cases where Colonels shall be appointed, without regard to seniority, to commands as Major-Generals, their temporary rank, if they shall have conducted themselves to our satisfaction, may be made permanent after having held such commands for five years in peace, or after any shorter period in war, upon the recommendation of our Commander-in-Chief. That, in like manner, the temporary rank of General and Lieutenant-General may be given, whenever the convenience of the service requires it, and may be confirmed in a similar manner.

10. That, in addition to the Colonels promoted by seniority to be MajorGenerals, Colonels shall be eligible for promotion to the rank of MajorGeneral, and Major-Generals to the rank of Lieutenant-General, and Lieutenant-Generals to the rank of General, for distinguished services in the

field.

In the case of Officers promoted to the rank of General Officers, as a reward for distinguished service in war, the recommendation in which the service of the officer shall be detailed shall be published in the general orders of the army, and in the Gazette, with a view to insure the responsibility attaching to an appointment thus made out of the regular course of army promotion.

11. That every vacancy on the fixed establishment of General Officers shall be filled by the promotion, when there is no supernumerary, of the senior Colonel qualified to succeed to the rank of Major-General, and to be placed on the fixed establishment, under the regulations now in force; and that vacancies in the ranks of General and Lieutenant-General be filled in the same manner.

If there be more than one supernumerary who has been promoted for distinguished service, the promotion of the senior Colonel shall take place on

every second vacancy only, until the supernumeraries be reduced, by the appointment alternately of a supernumerary, and the promotion of a Colonel.

12. That promotions shall be made in the ranks of Field-Officers below the rank of Colonel from time to time, or as vacancies occur in the MajorGenerals' fixed establishment.

13. That any Captain, Major, or Lieutenant-Colonel may be rewarded by promotion for distinguished services in the field. In cases, however, where such promotion would deprive the Officer of regimental employment, by which the interests either of the service or of the Officer might be prejudiced, brevet rank may be given, to be converted into regimental (or substantive rank) at an early subsequeut period.

14. That the commands of General Officers, and other situations on the staff, both at home and abroad, shall not be held for more than five years, unless by re-appointment.

15. That the privilege of selling out of the army, retaining the name of the Officer in the army list in italics, which is now confined to full Colonels and Officers having the Order of the Bath, be extended, with the permission of the Commander-in-Chief in each case, to all Field Officers.

16. That no Officer shall be promoted to the rank of Captain, until he shall have been two years an effective Subaltern.

17. That no Officer shall be promoted to the rank of Major until he shall have been six years effective as Subaltern or Captain.

18. Assistant-Surgeon.-No medical candidate who has not passed his examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons of London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, shall be eligible for the commission of Assistant-Surgeon; and he must have served as such on full pay five years before he shall be eligible for promotion to the rank of Staff Surgeon of the Second Class.

19. Staff-Surgeons.-Staff-Surgeons of the second class must have served ten years in the army, on full pay, before they shall be eligible for the next step of rank.

A Staff-Surgeon of the first class must have served three years at home, or two years abroad in this rank, before he shall be eligible for promotion. 20. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals.--A Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals must have served five years at home, or three years abroad in this rank, before he shall be eligible for promotion to the highest rank of Inspector-General.

UNATTACHED PAY, RETIRED FULL-PAY, AND HALF-PAY.

It is our further will and pleasure, that the grants of unattached pay and other rates of pay to General Officers, not being Colonels of Regiments, and of retired full pay and of half-pay to Officers of our army, shall be regulated by this our Royal Warrant, to be administered and interpreted by our Secretary-at-War, as the sole and standing authority for regulating such grants.

UNATTACHED PAY.

21. Officers removed from their commissions as Field-Officers in Regiments of Foot Guards, in consequence of being promoted to be General