of directors in the 94th paragraph of their general letter, dated the 6th April, 1789. The revd. Mr. P. Limerick, appointed in the 8th paragraph of the general letter from the court of directors, dated the 28th of March, 1788. The revd. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, appointed in the 10th paragraph of the general letter from the court of directors, in the public department, dated the 22d April, 1796. The revd. James Ward, appointed by the court of directors in the 10th paragraph of their general letter, in the public department, dated 18th October, 1797. The revd. Dr. H. P. Stacy, appointed by the court of directors in the 5th paragraph of the general letter from the court of directors, dated the 26th August, 1801. The revd. Henry Shepherd, appointed by the court of directors in the 4th paragraph of their general letter, dated the 23d June, 1802. The revd. Jeffreys, appointed by the court of directors in the 6th paragraph of their general letter, dated 4th August, 1802. The revd. Henry Martyn, appointed by the court of directors in the 4th paragraph of their general letter, dated the 3d July, 1805. The next two chaplains who shall be nominated by the court of directors for this establishment, will be appointed on their arrival to the two military stations in the lower provinces, which shall then be vacant, and the remaining two chaplains necessary to complete the establishment, to the civil stations of Patna and Dacca, unless the public service should require any temporary departure from the principle of this arrangement. Where the salaries of stations are the same, the selection for each station will be made by the governor-general in council with the aid of the recommendation of the commander-in-chief, if the station be a military one, not being the station of the garrison of Fort William. With a view more effectually to carry into effect the orders and intentions of the honorable the court of directors respecting chaplains, the governor-general in council is pleased to determine, that all chaplains of this establishment shall be eligible to be appointed either to the civil or military stations where chaplains are permanently allowed, and that they shall be appointed to the stations to which superior salaries are annexed according to seniority in all practicable cases, "unless there shall be some reasonable objection thereto," conformably to the principle prescribed in the 25th paragraph of the honorable court's letter. The governor-general in council will recommend to the honorable the court of directors to admit to the benefits of pensions and furlough, the chaplains belonging to this presidency, after they shall have served in India the time prescribed by the honorable court, whether they shall have served the whole of that time at a military station or not. Chaplains being already appointed by the preceding orders to the civil station of Calcutta, and the garrison of Fort William; ordered, with a view to enable government to complete the arrangement of chaplains as far as is practicable at present, that the right honorable the commander-in-chief be requested to propose the names of the remaining chaplains of this establishment establishment now in India, to be appointed to the military stations in the upper and lower provinces, conformably to the principles established by these regulations. THOS. HILL, Acting Sec. Mil. Dept. Fort William, Aug. 20, 18c6. The governor-general in council has already expressed in the general orders issued under date the 6th of May last, the high sense which he entertains of the distinguished merits and services of the whole, of the forces of his majesty and the honorable company, employed during the late war, under the personal command and direction of his excellency the right honorable lord Lake. But on the occasion of the embarkation of his majesty's 25th regiment light dragoons, which formed a part of those forces, for the presidency of Fort St. George, the governor-general in council considers it to be an obligation of his public duty, to apply the expression of his admiration and applause specifically to the merits and services of that corps. The general orders issued by the right honorable lord Lake on the 5th ultimo, on the occasion of the departure of his majesty's 25th regiment of light dragoons from Cawnpore, records (in language reciprocally honorable,) a public testimony of the exemplary exertions, zeal, and gallantry of that regiment under his lordship's direction, in the memorable battle of Laswaree, and on every other occasion which has offered of distinguishing itself, during the period of his lordship's command in India. It remains, therefore, only for the governorgeneral in council to express his cordial participation in those sentiments, and his sincere regret at the approaching departure of that distinguished regiment, and the governor-general in council unites in the just conviction expressed by his lordship, that in whatever quarter of the globe, the services of the regiment may be required, the spirit and ardent zeal, which have ever characterized the 25th dragoons, will support it, in the hour of difficulty and danger, and ensure it that success, which must ever be the result of valour and steady discipline. THOS. HILL, Acting Sec. Mil. Dept. Fort William, Aug. 21, 1806. As the contractor, according to the terms of his agreement, is not to victual Europeans at stations or outposts where the number of noncommissioned officers and privates do not exceed seven; in all such cases, the batta of the Europeans is to be drawn and included in the same pay abstract in which their subsistence shall be drawn, and paid with the subsistence to the men, with exception however of the batta of the sick men in the hospital, which is not to be drawn, as their diet and other necessaries will be furnished by the surgeon, who is entitled to an allowance for those purposes. The governor-general in council hereby calls the attention of commanding officers of stations, posts, and detachments of the army to the section of musters published in minutes of council in the military departments, dated 22d August, 1796, and directs that the monthly muster rolls of elephants, camels, draft and carriage bullocks, shall be transmitted with the other muster returns of the troops, by the mustering officers, direct to the military auditor-general. The gover† I 2 BOX nor-general in council deeming it to be highly improper that any officer holding a staff appointment at any army station, or an officer who may be employed in the capacity of personal staff to the commanding officer at such stations, should act as agent for a contractor, is pleased to direct that this practice, which is evidently so much at variance with the established principles of controul, shall be hereafter discontinued; and every officer holding a staff employed, is hereby positively prohibited from undertaking such an agency. THOS. HILL, Acting Sec. Mil. Dept. Fort William, Aug. 28, 1806. The governor-general in council is pleased to direct all persons, formerly in the service of the Mahratta or other native states or chiefs, who quitted the service of such states and chiefs, and availed themselves of the protection of the British government, in consequence of the proclamation issued by the governor-general in council, under date the 29th Aug. 1803, to report their names, place of residence, and the rank which they respectively held in the service which they quitted, to the secretary to government in the secret, political, and foreign department, for the information of the honorable the governor-general in council, without delay. THOS. HILL, Acting Sec. Mil. Dept. Fort William, Sept. 6, 1806. Instances having occurred of officers embarking for Europe on furlough, and on retiring from the service, without complying with the regulations of government, which direct" that officers and surgeons proceeding on foreign ships or shall forward to the secretary to government, certificates from the captains or pilots specifying the dates of dispatch or departure of ships respectively," the commander-in-chief directs, that the strictest attention be invariably paid to those directions in future, by all commission officers, surgeons, assistant-surgeons, chaplains, others, belonging to any department of the army, who may be permitted to embark either for Europe, or elsewhere, on furlough, or to retire from the service, on board of foreign or other ships that may not be dispatched by the civil officers of government. Duplicates of such certificates to be sent to the adjutant-general's office at Fort William. And all officers, surgeons, or assistants, who may be cies, or to proceed to sea, for the permitted to visit other presidenbenefit of their health, are directed to report the date of embarkation, the name of the ship on which they proceed, and the date of their return to the presidency, to the town major, and to the adjutantgeneral at Fort William. Officers, lains, or warrant officers, who surgeons, assistant-surgeons, chapEurope; or on leave, or duty from may arrive at the presidency from other stations, are also reminded of the necessity of reporting their arrival to the town-major, and adjutant-general, and are strictly enjoined always to report in like manner the date of their departure from the presidency. All officers and assistant surgeons, appointed to orps in the first instance, are also directed to make similar reports on proceeding to join their corps. Lieutenant Scott, of the 2d battalion 5th regiment, is ordered to do duty with the 1st battalion of the regiment, until the 15th of Dec. next, when when he will proceed to join the corps, to which he is appointed. John Burke, matross of artillery, doing duty at the arsenal at Fort William, is directed to join his corps. H. WORSLEY, Adjutant-General. double.----ditto, single.----hides, country.---ditto Corah.---hemp.--iron country.---jars, water.---jute. linen cotton,---linen gurrah, Panta. ---ditto Curwa.--- ditto Gudgee.--mats, best.----oil, linseed.----do. mustard.---paint, blue, Patna,--Fort William, Sep. 11, 1806. plank, mangoe.---rope jute.---saltThe following regulations for the petre, unrefined.---sheep skins,--guidance of pay-masters, in their stone corone.---tape (cotton broad) capacities of commissaries of sup--thread ditto.--- timbers, saul, plies, are to have effect from this large.---ditto sissoo.---ditto mandate. goe.twine, country----jute.---wax.---wood fire. 2. The deputy pay-master who may be charged with the payment of the troops and stations on the west bank of the Jumna, shall also act as commissary of supplies to magazines and stations to the westward of that river. 1. The deputy pay-masters who were appointed by the general orders of government of the 15th June, 1804, to the following stations of the army, and who are also to perform the duty of commissaries of supplies, are to furnish such articles of stores as may be required for the service of the magazines, at 3. The deputy pay-masters are their respective stations, according to the following list and prices, to be determined on as soon as the present rates can be revised and equitably adjusted, without any claim whatever to commission. Futty Ghur, Cawnpore, (including Allahabad,) List of stores which are in future to be furnished by the deputy pay-masters at the different stations, in their capacities of commissaries of supplies, and the rates of which will be here after settled. bound, in consideration of the salaries they receive, and of the above rates which will be fixed on a just and adequate calculation, to furnish such quantities of the stores therein specified, as shall be required of them within one month, at farthest, from the date of the requisition, unless satisfactory reasons shall be produced for further delay, under the penalty of forfeiting the rated value of every article that shall not have been delivered within that period of time. 4. In order to ascertain the time within which it is incumbent on a deputy pay-master to furnish the articles required of him, he shall, whenever an Indent is presented to him, in his capacity of commissary of supplies, and that the stores are not supplied forthwith, indorse it" accepted," and add the date of presentment. Bamboos (of Bengal,) large--ditto middling.---ditto, small.--bamboos, upper country, best short, -baskets, large.---bellows, brass, smiths.---borax (Tincal),---buntin, country,--- charcoal, mangoe 5 Stores supplied in any consoondry ---cotton, raw.---dammer siderable quantity are, in every ---duppers, empty (for each md. practicable case, to undergo a they contain,)---eggs.----flour.--- regular survey, agreeably to the glue, Patna.----grease.----gunneys established rules of the service previous previous to their being received into the magazine, and in case when a survey shall not have been practicable, as on occasion of any sudden emergency, from a want of officers, or from the supplies being too inconsiderable to require a particular survey of them, the commissary, deputy commissary, or other officer in charge of the magazine, is himself to survey and, minutely examine the stores, to see that they are in quality, weight, and measure, conformable to what is required by the indent, and that they are in every respect in good condition and adapted to the purpose for which they were indented for. 6. The survey report is, along with the indent on which the stores were passed by the military board, to be tacked to the deputy pay-master's bill, and forwarded with it as a necessary voucher, to the office of the military auditor general, 7. In cases when stores shall have been supplied on emergent indents, under the authority vested in commanding officers of stations, without the previous sanction of the military board, such indents, accompanied by the deputy paymaster's bills for the stores so supplied, vouched in the manner directed in the 6th article, are to be transmitted, through the regular channel of the brigade major of the station, to the secretary of the military board, for the purpose of being submitted for their sanction. 8. When the indents shall have been passed by the board, they will, together with the bills, be forwarded to the office of the military auditor general, of which due intimation will be given to the deputy paymaster by the secretary of the military board. 9. If any deputy pay-master shall, in his capacity of commaissary of supplies, furnish stores without authority of the right honourable the commander in chief, or the military board, (except in cases of emergency, which are provided for by the 7th and 15th articles) he shall not be held entitled to make any charge against the company for stores so furnished, and the military auditor-general shall reject all such bills as may be presented to him for stores supplied without either of the authorities above-mentioned, without the emergency of the case requiring that they should be so supplied. or 10. The deputy pay-masters are however authorized to comply with the indents of the ordnance officers in charge of magazines for such articles as may be requisite to complete the proportions of petty stores allowed to be issued to quarter-masters by the general orders of 13th September, and 14th November, 1796, taking care that the quantities issued on such indents do not exceed the regulated allowances, and that the indents, with the receipts of the ordnance officers for the contents, are transmitted regularly every month to the military board office for the sanction of the military board. 11. The supplies to be furnished by the deputy pay-masters are to be confined to the wants of the magazines, and not to extend to the engineer department, or that of the quarter-master-general. 12. The commissaries, deputycommissaries, or other officers in charge of magazines, are to be furnished with a copy of the list of stores to be supplied by the deputy pay-master at the different stations of the army, by which their indents on the deputy pay-master are to be regulated, and they are positively enjoined |