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applying for the capitalization of their pensions, shall be
examined as to the state of their health by a medical board;
and if the medical report is satisfactory, the pensions will be
capitalized upon the principal that the lives of the officers are
as good as average lives of the same age in England; and the
commutation will be calculated at a rate of interest at five per
cent., according to the Table which forms Enclosure No. 3* to
this Despatch.
"11. The officers of the Indian Navy should be invited to
volunteer for the Bombay Marine The navy of the East India Company. , as well as for employment in
any branch of the uncovenanted Service in India. I have no
doubt that such employment may be found for many of them
should they desire it; and I most earnestly impress upon your
Excellency that it is the duty of the Government to provide in
this manner for as large a number as can advantageously be so
employed. A preference should be given to these officers in
filling up all vacancies in maritime appointments such as those
of Master-Attendant at the different Presidencies or ports in
India, Port officers, Emigration officers, and any situations
on shore where the skill and professional acquirements of a
Naval officer would be useful. Whenever an officer of the
Indian Navy in receipt of a pension, granted to him upon the
abolition of that Service, is appointed to any office in India, or
under the Secretary of State for India in Council at home, it
should be upon the condition that, if the emoluments of the
appointment exceed the amount of his pension by one fourth,
he shall not receive any portion of his pension while he is so
employed. If the emoluments are less than the pension, and a
fourth, such portion of the pension only shall be drawn as will
make the total sum received annually by the officer equal to the
amount of his pension, and a fourth. An officer of the Indian
Navy, upon ceasing to hold any such appointment, will receive
his Indian Navy pension, and, in addition, the pension, if any,
to which he may be entitled under the regulations applicable to
bis subsequent employment. Officers volunteering for service
in India will not be permitted to commute their pensions, or
any portion of them, for a capital sum whilst so employed."
There were eight other paragraphs in this despatch in which
Sir Charles Wood dealt with points of detail. He directed the
Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. 44 to take care to discharge the crews of
the vessels of the Indian Navy gradually, and so as to prevent
more seamen being thrown out of employment than can be
absorbed in the merchant service," and also recommended that
the marine apprentices, who, for the past sixty years, had been
sent out in annual drafts from the ' Warspite/ should be re
tained until the end of their apprenticeship, or, if they were
* This enclosure is tlie " Value of an annuity of £1 on a single life according to
the Carlisle Table of Mortality, interest being calculated at 5 per cent."
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