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liable to be discharged, or dealt with as may be determined by their Lordships.

44. On the completion of their training, students in naval construction will live and mess on board ship in the same way as probationary assistant engineers for a time:

(a.) In the case of those who qualify for admission to the Royal Naval College as probationary assistant constructors, until they join the college.

(b.) In the case of those who fail, until a decision as to their disposal has been arrived at.

45. Probationary assistant constructors who at any time fail to obtain a satisfactory report of their qualifications will be required to withdraw from the service, and forfeit the amount of the bond, or such less amount as their Lordships shall decide to recover, unless the failure be due to sickness. The pay of the probationary assistant constructors until the completion of their training at the Royal Naval College will be the same as that of the probationary assistant engineers and assistant engineers of the same service.

46. Such probationary assistant constructors only as obtain first- or second-class professional certificates on their final examination at the Royal Naval College will be admitted to the corps of naval constructors, their first appointments being as assistant constructors, third class.

47. When appointed assistant constructors, third class, on leaving the college they will cease to be under naval discipline, except that they will have to proceed to sea for a term if so required.

48. Those who obtain third-class certificates will not be admitted to the corps, but will be eligible to receive appointments as draughtsmen in the dockyards.

49. Every student entering the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors will be liable to serve at any foreign naval establishment the Admiralty may direct.

50. The period of service in the third class for all assistant constructors to be four years. If favourably reported on at the end of this period as to character, ability, and industry, each officer will be eligible for promotion to the second class. Promotions from the second class to the first class of assistant constructors will be by selection. Those officers who have taken first-class certificates on their final examination at the Royal Naval College will be eligible for promotion to first class if favourably reported on after five years’ service, reckoned from the date of leaving the college, and those who have obtained second-class certificates to be similarly eligible after seven years’ service.

51. The assistant engineers who pass the second and third sessions at Greenwich will be attached during the vacations between the 30th June and 1st October to the dockyards or steam reserves, where they will be employed sketching machinery, attending trials of new and repaired engines, and gaining such professional information as will be most useful to them for the purposes of engine-design. The assistant constructors will also be attached to the dockyards during the vacations, and will be employed on duties appertaining to their position.

Uniform, Books, &c.

52. Students on entry are to be provided with the following articles of uniform, according to the patterns laid down in the Uniform Regulations, 1891: One blue-cloth uniform undress coat, one blue-cloth uniform jacket, two blue-cloth uniform trousers, two blue-cloth uniform waistcoats, one uniform great-coat, two uniform caps; two working suits of blue serge, each consisting of one undress coat, one waistcoat, one trousers; one waterproof coat and cape.

At the commencement of the fourth year students are to be further provided with one uniform frock-coat, one mess waistcoat.

Frock Coat, Undress Coat, and Jacket: The same as for clerks, but with one row of ½ in. purple cloth round each cuff instead of white cloth.

Students in naval construction to wear silver-grey cloth round each cuff instead of purple cloth.

Estimated cost of the above uniform, to last three years with care, not more than £20.

A senior engineer student in his fourth or fifth year of service, on requiring a new uniform jacket, may procure a double-breasted one, similar in shape to that worn by a commissioned officer.

Patterns of the working suit and of the sleeves of the undress coat and jackets are kept and can be seen at the Admiralty, Whitehall, and at the training-school for engineer students at Keyham, Devonport.

List of Articles required as an Outfit for an Engineer Student on joining the Training-school at Keyham (Estimated Cost, about £15): Two white-flannel shirts, two white-flannel trousers, six white shirts, six coloured shirts, twelve collars, three nightshirts, six pairs merino socks, four pairs cotton or merino drawers, four merino vests, two neckties, two pairs braces, six white handkerchiefs, six coloured handkerchiefs, six towels, one clothes-brush, one sponge, one leather bag, one clothes-bag, one brush and comb, one tooth-

and one nail-brush, three pairs boots, one pair slippers, two pairs gloves, two pairs gymnastic shoes.

The probable annual expense attending renewals of uniforms and other clothes, washing, subscription to recreative fund, &c., is estimated to be about £25.

53. Students will be required to find their own books, and a list will be furnished to each on appointment. They will also be required to find their own stationery and drawing materials.

54. The foregoing regulations will be generally followed, but my Lords will modify them from time to time as may be considered desirable.

Medical Examinations.

55. With a view to prevent parents and guardians from incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing candidates for entry as engineer students in Her Majesty’s navy who may be physically unfit for the service, it is suggested that the candidates be submitted to examination by the medical adviser of the family, or any other registered medical practitioner, to whom the following points may be submitted as those upon which they will be physically examined by naval medical officers. It is to be understood that this private examination is merely suggested as a guide to parents and guardians, and to lessen the chances of disappointment, and that it is by no means intended to take the place of, or to influence in any way, the regular official physical examination:—

A weak constitution, arising from imperfect development or weakness of the physical powers of the body, either hereditary or from chronic disease, wounds, or injuries:

Chronic eruptions on the skin or scalp:

Malformation of the head, with a dry, harsh, divergent state of the hair of the scalp, fracture or depression of the bones of the skull, disordered intellect, imbecility, epilepsy, paralysis, or impediment of speech:

Blindness or defective vision, as tested by Snellen’s test types, in one or both eyes, fistula lachrymalis, and ptosis:

Impaired hearing, or discharge from one or both ears, disease or thickening of the lining membrane of the external ear:

Disease of the bones of the nose or of its cartilages, and polypus:

Disease of the throat, palate, or tonsils; unsound teeth, offensive breath from constitutional causes, unhealthy gums, scrofulous diseases of the glands of the throat or neck, external cicatrices from scrofulous sores:

Functional or organic disease of the heart or blood-vessels, deformity or contraction of the chest, flattening of the subclavicular regions, phthisis, hæmoptysis, bronchitis, dyspncea, aphonia, chronic cough, or other symptoms of tubercular exudation into the pulmonary tissues:

Swelling or distention of the abdomen; undue obesity; disease or enlargement of the liver, spleen, or kidneys; rupture, weakness, or distention of the abdominal rings; vesical weakness, or incontinence:

The existence of any congenital defect, or of varicocele:

Any disease of or pertaining to the alimentary canal:

Paralysis, weakness, impaired motion, or contraction of the upper or lower extremities, from whatever cause; aneurism, a varicose state of the veins, especially of the leg; bunions, distortion, malformation of the feet, or malposition of the fingers or toes:

Distortion of the spine, of the bones of the chest, or pelvis, from injury or constitutional defect.

By command of their Lordships.

EVAN MACGREGOR.

NOTE.—Appended to these regulations is a schedule of the form of bond for students in naval construction, referred to in paragraph 14; and a memorandum of the several grades of engineer officers of the Royal Navy, together with the scales of full and half-pay, &c.; also, information as to the pay, &c., of the officers of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors.

SCHEDULE.

Form of Bond for Students in Naval Construction entered from Engineer Students.

Know all men by these presents that we, , a student in naval construction at Her Majesty’s dockyard at , and , of , in the County of , are held and firmly bound to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors, in the sum of £500, for which payment to be duly made we, the said and , do hereby bind ourselves and each of us, and our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and dated this day of , 18 .

Whereas the above-bounden was appointed by the Admiralty an engineer student on the day of 18 , and the said has now been appointed a student in naval construction for the purpose of learning and practising the art or occupation of naval construction for a term of three years from the day of , 18