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(a) These Officers have unfurnished apartments with fuel and light. (b) The Fuel, Furniture, &c. of this Establishment are supplied by the Office of Public Works, and the cost is included in the Estimates for Civil Services.

(c) Corrected figures.

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C.-CHELSEA PENSIONS OF WARRANT OFFICERS, NON-COM

MISSIONED OFFICERS, MEN AND OTHERS : AND GRATUITIES
IN COMMUTATION AND IN LIEU OF PENSIONS.

ESTIMATE, ESTIMATE, 1907-08.

1906-07.

Numbers. (a)

1906-07. 1907-08.

WARRANT OFFICERS : 74

75 Cavalry 223

243 Royal Artillery 141

148

Royal Engineers 588

621

Infantry 13

15

Colonial Corps 169

185 Army Service Corps 64

80 Royal Army Medical Corps 95

112 Army Ordnance Corps

34 Army Pay Corps 46

55 Militia 93

98 Army Schoolmasters

D. --MAINTENANCE OF LUNATICS FOR WHOM PENSIONS ARE ;

NOT DRAWN:

230
238

TOTAL

£.
8,000

7,500 (a) The numbers given for 1907-08 on pages 119-121 represent the actual number of pensions, &c., in force at the time of preparing the Estimate.

(6) Corrected figures.

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F.-REWARDS TO WARRANT OFFICERS AND NON-COMMISSIONED

OFFICERS FOR DISTINGUISHED OR MERITORIOUS SERVICES :
The names or the recipients and the amounts of the rewards are given in

Appendix, No. 15, pp. 216 to 221.

J.-GRATUITIES :

FOR DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT AND FOR LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT •

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K.-PENSIONS, COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES TO

WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF WARRANT OFFICERS, NON-COM- ESTIMATE, ESTIMATE, MISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN, &c. :

1907-08. 1906–07.

Men :

301. a year.

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Note. — The following are the rates of pension granted to the families of Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and

Widows.

Children.
Warrant Officers killed or dying through War Service or
from injuries received on duty -

61. 58. a year each.
Other Warrant Officers

201.

51.
Non-Commissioned Officers and Men killed or dying through
War Service or from injuries received on duty:
Class I. (Quartermaster-Serjeants, &c.)

10s. a week.

2s. a week each. Class II. (Colour-Serjeants, &c.)

9s.

2s. Class III. (Serjeants, &c.)

78. 6d.

2s. Class IV. (Corporals, &c.)

ls. 6d. Class V. (Privates, &c.)

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L-APPROPRIATIONS IN AID.

Sum to be received in aid of Army Estimates to meet the Non-Effective

Charges for the Regular Forces serving in India :

£.

(6) Certain lands and premises, the property of Kilmainham Hospital, of the nominal rental value of 671., are let to the War Department, but no rent is paid for them.

A suni of 601. a year, Fire Insurance on the buildings of Kilmainham Hospital, is paid out of the revenues of the Hospital, and the ainount of Appropriations in Aid is correspondingly reduced.