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appointed in ten years), fifty-four on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for War, six on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Air, and twenty-three on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs or Our Secretary of State for the Colonies.

XV. It is Ordained that not more than three hundred and thirty-six appointments shall be made in any one year to the Civil Division of the Fourth Class, or Officers, of which number one hundred and forty shall be persons who have rendered meritorious service within, or connected with, Our United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, and one hundred and ninety-six shall be persons who have rendered meritorious service within, or connected with, any other part or parts of Our Dominions including India, Burma, or Countries under Our protection or Mandated Territories, or who have rendered services in relation to the Foreign Affairs of Our Empire, and that of the latter number eighteen may be made on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, thirty-six on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for India, one hundred and forty on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs or Our Secretary of State for the Colonies, and two on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Burma.

XVI. It is Ordained that not more than one hundred and sixty-one appointments shall be made in any year to the Military Division of the Fifth Class, or Members, of which number fourteen may be made on the recommendation of Our First Lord of the Admiralty (provided that not more than one hundred and ten may be so appointed in ten years), one hundred and one on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for War, seven on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Air, and thirty-nine on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs or Our Secretary of State for the Colonies.

XVII. It is Ordained that not more than five hundred and nine appointments shall be made in any one year to the Civil Division of the Fifth Class, or Members, of which number two hundred and twenty shall be persons who have rendered meritorious service within, or connected with, Our United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, and two hundred and eighty-nine shall be persons who have rendered meritorious service within, or connected with, any other part or parts of Our Dominions including India, Burma, or Countries under Our protection or Mandated Territories, or who have rendered services in relation to the Foreign Affairs of Our Empire, and that of the latter number twenty-four may be made on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, seventy (less two in five years) on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for India, one hundred and ninety-three on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs or Our Secretary of State for the Colonies, and two (with the addition of two in five years) on the recommendation of Our Secretary of State for Burma.

XVIII. It is Ordained that if the appointments authorised to be made annually in the first three classes as aforesaid be not made in any one year, the vacancies so arising may be filled in subsequent years, but that vacancies so arising in the fourth and fifth classes may not be so filled up.

XIX. It is Ordained that those persons who were admitted into this Most Excellent Order prior to the twenty-ninth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and those persons who were admitted in recognition of their services in the military operations in Waziristan in the year One thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, or who were admitted in commemoration of the Twenty-fifth year of the reign of Our Royal Father His late Majesty King George the Fifth in the year One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and those persons whom We have thought fit to admit in commemoration of Our Royal Coronation on the twelfth day of May last, shall not now, or hereafter, be included within the number allotted to each class of the Order by the foregoing Statutes.

Appointments to the Fourth Class of the Civil Division not to exceed 336 in any one year.

Appointments to the Fifth Class of the Military Division not to exceed 161 in any one year.

Appointments to the Fifth Class of the Civil Division not to exceed 509 in any one year.

Vacancies arising through non-appointment.

Certain appointments to be additional.