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ance with paragraph 19) has been made from the
number of marks gained by each candidate in the
several subjects in which he has been examined, the
remainders will be summed up, and the marks gained
by the candidate in geometrical drawing at the pre-
liminary examination will be added thereto. The
resulting total will determine the place of the can-
didate in the competitive list; the successful can-
didates being those who stand at the head of the list
up to the number of cadetships competed for.

3. Examination of University Candidates.

4. A graduate or student of one of the Universi-
   ties specified in paragraph 3, who, having obtained his
   University qualification while within the maximum
   limit of age specified in paragraph 10, is desirous of
   becoming a candidate for a cadetship at the Royal
   Military College, must send an application to the
   Military Secretary in the month of May or October,
   with a view to his appointment under the provisions
   of paragraph 22; but no such application can be
   admitted before the candidate has actually attained
   the age of seventeen, nor later than the 31st May
   or 31st October next following the date of his attain-
   ing the maximum limits of age prescribed for
   graduates and students respectively in paragraph

5. The application must be accompanied by papers
   (a) and (b), described in paragraph 13, and by a
   certificate from the proper authority that he has
   taken his degree in Arts, or has passed the University
   examination specified in paragraph 3 (b).

6. Notice will be given from time to time of the
   number of cadetships which will be allotted half-
   yearly to University candidates. In case there
   should be more candidates than vacancies, the
   required number will be selected by competition
   among the said candidates at the ensuing July or
   December examination, but without a preliminary
   examination, except in geometrical drawing, which is
   obligatory. University candidates who may have
   been unsuccessful at their first examination will be
   allowed a second opportunity of competing, provided
   that "students" shall not have exceeded their twenty-
   second year, and that "graduates" shall not have
   exceeded their twenty-third year at the time of such
   second examination. These limits of age will be
   ruled by the 1st July for the summer, and by the
   1st January for the winter examinations.

7. Examination of Queen's and Indian Cadets and
   Pages of Honor.

8. Queen's cadets are sons of officers of the army,
   Royal navy, and Royal marines who have fallen in
   action, or died of wounds received in action, or of
   disease contracted on service abroad, and who have
   left their families in reduced circumstances. They
   are appointed by the Secretary of State on the re-
   commendation of the Commander-in-Chief or First
   Lord of the Admiralty.

9. Honorary Queen's cadets are sons of officers
   of the army, Royal navy, and Royal marines who were
   killed in action, or who had died of wounds received
   in action within six months of such wounds having
   been received, or of illness brought on by fatigue,
   privation, or exposure incident to active operations
   in the field before an enemy, within six months after
   their having been first certified to be ill. (See
   article 5 of the Royal Warrant of 27th November,
   1873, clause 151, Army Circulars, 1873.)

10. Applications for Queen's cadetships and
    honorary Queen's cadetships should be addressed to
    the Military Secretary if the candidate is the son of
    an officer of the army, or to the Secretary of the
    Admiralty if the candidate is the son of an officer
    of the Royal navy or Royal marines.

11. Indian cadets are the sons of persons who
    have served in India in the military or civil service
    of Her Majesty, or of the East India Company, and
    are nominated by the Secretary of State for India
    in Council, under the provisions of 21 and 22 Vict.,
    c. 106, and 23 and 24 Vict., c. 100. Applications for
    Indian cadetships should be addressed to the Military
    Secretary, India Office.

12. A Queen's cadet, honorary Queen's cadet,
    Indian cadet, or page of honor, when ready for ex-
    amination, will apply in the manner directed by
    paragraph 13 or 14.

13. Queen's cadets, honorary Queen's cadets,
    Indian cadets, and pages of honour, before admission
    to the Royal Military College, will be required to
    pass a qualifying entrance examination only, i.e., after
    having passed the preliminary examination under
    paragraph 15, they must obtain under paragraphs 18
    and 19 such an aggregate of marks as may indicate,
    in the judgment of the Civil Service Commissioners,
    a competent amount of general proficiency.

14. A Queen's cadet, honorary Queen's cadet,
    Indian cadet, or page of honor, who can produce a
    University certificate, as prescribed in paragraph 3
    (b), will be exempted from the qualifying entrance
    examination described in the preceding paragraph.

III. TERMS OF PAYMENT.

30. The terms of payment for cadets of the Royal
    Military College are regulated by the following
    articles of the Royal Warrant of the 30th October,
    1876 (clause 161, Army Circulars, 1876) :—

(7.) The payment to be contributed annually on
behalf of a cadet at our Royal Military College shall
be as follows:—

Queen's cadets
Nil.
For an Indian cadet. By special arrange-
ment with the India Office
For the son of an officer of the army or
navy who has died in the service, and
whose family is left in pecuniary distress
(subject to the approval of our Secretary
of State)
20
For the son of an officer below the rank of
colonel or regimental field officer in the
army and captain or commander in the
navy, or of an instructor at the Royal
Military Academy or Royal Military
College or Staff College
40
For the son of a colonel or regimental field
officer in the army, or of a captain or
commander in the navy, or of a professor
at the Royal Military Academy or Royal
Military College or Staff College
60
For the son of a general officer who is not
colonel of a regiment, or of a vice- or
rear-admiral
70
For the son of an admiral, or of a general
officer who is colonel of a regiment or in
receipt of Indian colonel's allowances ...
80
For the son of a private gentleman
125

(8.) In determining the rate of payment—
(a.) A general officer on the half-pay of his last
regimental commission shall pay in accordance with
such regimental rank:
(b.) Officers who have sold their commissions shall
be regarded as private gentlemen:
(c.) Officers on retired full or half-pay after
twenty-five years' service, or officers of less than
twenty-five years' service if placed on half-pay by
reduction of establishment or on account of ill-
health, shall pay in accordance with their last sub-
stantive regimental rank. The cases of officers volun-
tarily retiring to half-pay before completing twenty-
five years' service shall be specially considered:
(d.) Officers of the departments of our army and
navy, according to their relative rank, of the perma.