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cretion, and never allow themselves to be influenced by prejudice or personal ill-will towards any individual. Non-commissioned officers must never make use of abusive or improper language to the men, and must use special tact in dealing with recruits. They are to give their orders plainly and decidedly, in as few words as possible, and they are never to suffer a reply when on parade or other duty, nor when off duty be intimate or associate with the men.

109. No non-commissioned officer is to have any money transactions whatever with the men.

110. Whenever a non-commissioned officer is confined for drunkenness, the officer or non-commissioned officer confining him will immediately send to or report to the sergeant-major or the senior non-commissioned officer of the battery or company to which the prisoner belongs. In the case of a man so confined, the sergeant-major and orderly non-commissioned officer are when possible to be sent for, or in their absence the senior non-commissioned officer of the battery or company.

111. Non-commissioned officers allowing themselves to be treated by, or seen drinking or familiarly associating with, the men will be subject to be dealt with for wilful disobedience of orders.

112. Men obtaining passes are to be inspected by the battery or company orderly, who is responsible that they are properly dressed before leaving the barracks.

113. Every sergeant of Artillery is to have in his possession a copy of the Manual of Artillery Exercises, and Field Exercises for Infantry; every sergeant of Engineers a copy of the Field Exercises for Infantry, and Rifle Exercises, and Engineer’s Manual of Elementary Field Engineering. Every sergeant of Rifles is to be in possession of Infantry Field Exercises and Musketry Instructions.

114. Seniority alone can never give a non-commissioned officer right to promotion.

115. A non-commissioned officer may be reduced for unfitness, negligence, or misconduct by order of the Officer Commanding Permanent Militia, and will in such case revert to the bottom of the list in the class or grade to which he may be reduced.

116. Leave is not to be granted to any man until he has been one month clear of the defaulter-book.

117. No non-commissioned officer or man is on any account to appear in plain clothes, except by permission of the Officer Commanding, and this privilege is to be rarely exercised and confined to special cases.

118. No man is to reply to an officer or non-commissioned officer when found fault with on duty or in the ranks.

119. Any non-commissioned officer or man must immediately report his illness. If this is neglected he will be liable to punishment. A similar report is to be made of any damage or loss in his appointments. No man on the sick report is to quit the barracks or camp.

120. Before any man can obtain a furlough he must have been dismissed his drills, his kit must be complete, he must be out of debt, and he must be a man of good character.

121. Any man having real cause for complaint should appeal through the Officer Commanding his battery or company; and, without meaning to encourage trifling complaints, of which all good men should be ashamed, it is clearly to be understood that all real grievances will be redressed.

122. When a man who has been employed as clerk, servant, &c., is sent to his duty in the ranks, the sergeant-major must see that he attends all drills when not on duty, until he is dismissed as efficient.

123. Non-commissioned officers in charge of rooms, &c., are responsible that the beds, kits, and necessaries are put up in a proper uniform manner, and that no bad language is used in the rooms.

124. Non-commissioned officers of Artillery are to make themselves fully competent to instruct the men in the duties of artillerymen, and make them familiar with tables of practice, so that they may be able to lay their guns with the greatest precision for all distances and in the shortest possible time.

GENERAL ORDERS.

125. An exact obedience to orders issued is the foundation of all military discipline.

126. The respect due to rank must be impressed on officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, it being a part of discipline. The salute must first come from the inferior, and is always returned by the superior.

127. When an officer enters a barrack-room the first man who sees him must call “Attention,” and the men will continue to stand to attention. Men, if standing still when an officer passes, will turn towards him, come to attention, and salute; if sitting, they will rise, stand at attention, and salute. In both of these cases the salute is given with the right hand when the officer is four paces from the man, who will lower his hand after a pause of six paces of quick time. When a man approaches an officer standing still to address him he will salute with the right hand, making a pause of slow time between the first and second motions of the salute and will halt at two paces from the officer. When a man passes an officer he will salute (with the hand farthest from the officer) at the fourth pace before reaching him, and will lower his hand on the fourth pace after passing him. Recruits should therefore be practised in marching, two or three together, round the drill-ground, saluting points being placed on either side of them, care being taken that they always salute with the hand farthest from the point saluted.

128. No non-commissioned officer or man is to leave the barracks except dressed in uniform, unless permission is granted as provided for in paragraph 117.

129. No meeting or assembly of officers, non-commissioned officers, or men is ever to be held for the purpose of discussing any military matters without the Commanding Officer’s sanction.

130. No wine or spirituous liquors are on any pretence to be brought into the barracks without the consent of the Commanding Officer.

131. No officer, non-commissioned officer, or man is on any pretence to write to newspapers, either in his own name or anonymously, or to take any part in political matters, on pain of instant discharge.

132. No non-commissioned officer or man is to cut or alter in the smallest degree any part of his clothing or accoutrements; and any non-commissioned officer or man committing a breach of this order will be punished, and made to pay for a new article.

133. All orders relative to the men are to be read immediately after delivery by a non-commissioned officer, and on all Commanding Officers’ parades.

134. No man is to wear his regimental great-coat except on duty or by permission.

135. The Commanding Officer will expect to find the barracks in perfect order at any hour he may visit them.

136. When the Officer Commanding the Forces makes an inspection the Commanding Officer will present him with an exact statement, accounting for all the men of the battery or company under his command.

137. No two or more men are ever to go together to make a complaint to an officer. When a man wishes to speak to an officer he must be accompanied by a non-commissioned officer.

138. When a man finds his rifle or carbine in the smallest degree out of repair he must immediately report the same.

139. No arms are to be delivered into or taken out of the armourer’s shop unless by order of the Officer Commanding the battery or company.

140. Every inferior, whether officer or otherwise, is to receive the commands of his superior with deference and respect, and to execute them without question or comment to the best of his power; and every superior, in his turn, whether officer or otherwise, is to give his orders in the language of moderation and of regard to the feelings of the individual under his command.

141. The obedience and respect which are here required must be observed throughout the force generally, and not be understood in any partial or confined sense. Real discipline, as has been already observed, implies obedience and respect wherever it is due on the one hand, and, on the other, a just but energetic use of command and responsibility.

142. Every officer and man must understand that it is an invariable rule in discipline, in the absence of a superior, that the whole of the duty or charge which was intrusted to that superior devolves upon the next in rank, so that the chain of responsibility may continue unbroken.

143. With respect to religious observances it is expected that the officers will do all they can to facilitate the attendance of the men under their command at the places of worship to which they respectively belong, and that particular attention shall be paid to the proper observances of the Sabbath Day.

144. No man in the force shall marry without permission from the Officer Commanding Permanent Militia.

145. Any man may be discharged by the Officer Commanding Permanent Militia for unfitness, or dismissed for negligence or misconduct, independently of any other punishment to which he may by law be subject, or may be reduced to a lower class or grade, and will, in such case, revert to the bottom of the list in the class or grade to which he may be reduced.

146. Any man who for a moment questions or disobeys the orders he may receive from a superior officer will be severely punished; every officer and non-commissioned officer is held strictly responsible that he immediately reports any individual who refuses to obey him in any matter of duty.

147. Smoking, when in uniform, whether on duty or not, is strictly prohibited in the streets or public places.

148. No member of the Permanent Militia is to practise any profession or follow any trade or business, nor if he is married, and living with his wife, is he to allow her to