The East-India Register and Army List

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W.H. Allen, 1845 - Burma
 

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Page xl - A lieutenant, having served thirteen, or a second lieutenant, cornet, or ensign, nine years in India (including three years for a furlough), may retire on the half-pay of his rank, in case his health shall not permit him to serve in India. " Regimental captains, majors, and lieutenant-colonels...
Page xxxvi - CAVALRY or INFANTRY CADETS. Cadets nominated for either of the above corps must bclfi years of age, and under 22, unless they have held a commission in her Majesty's service for one year, or in the militia or fencibles when embodied and have been called into actual service, or from...
Page xlviii - All Officers not mentioned in the above table, whose rank is regulated by comparison with rank in the army, to have the same rank with reference to civil servants as is enjoyed by Military Officers of equal grades. All other persons who may not be mentioned in this table to take rank according to general usage, which is to be explained and determined by the Governor-General in Council in case any question shall arise.
Page xxxvi - ... attended diligently the practice of the physicians at some general hospital in London for six months or at some general hospital in the country (within the United Kingdom) for six months, provided such provincial hospital contain at least, on an average, 100 in-patients, and have attached to it a regular establishment of physicians as well as surgeons.
Page xxx - Arts. 45—63, and those articles dependent on the Differential Calculus. " It is also very desirable that a cadet on joining the Seminary be able to draw with facility in pencil, and shade with Indian ink. " 9. Every cadet, upon his admission, is considered a Probationary pupil for the first six months ; at the end of which period the public examiner will be required to report to the Military Committee, on the probability of the cadet being able to pass for the artillery...
Page xl - Officers who are compelled to quit the service by wounds received in action, or by ill-health contracted on duty after three years' service in India, are permitted to retire on the half-pay of their rank, viz.
Page xxiv - Each candidate shall be examined in the Four Gospels of the Greek Testament, and shall not be deemed duly qualified for admission to Haileybury College, unless he be found to possess a competent knowledge thereof; nor unless he be able to render into English some portion of the works of one of the following Greek authors, — Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, Thucydides, Sophocles, and Euripides; nor unless he can render into English some portion of the works of one of the following Latin authors, —...

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