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PATRIOTIC FUND. 
 
 ROYAL COMMISSION. 
 
 VICTOillA R. 
 
 VICTORIA, by the Orace of God, of tho United Kingdom of Groat Britain 
 and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith. To Our most dearly-heloved 
 Consort, His Royal IliglineHH Francis All»ert Augnstus ('harles Emmanuel, 
 Duko of Saxony, Trince of Saxo Coltourg and Gotlia, Knight of Our Most Nohlo 
 Order of the Garter, and Field-Marshal of our F'orces. To Our riglit trusty 
 and right entirely-bek vcd Cousin and Councillor, Henry Pelham, Duke of 
 Newcastle, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State ; our riglit trusty and right 
 entirely-helov'cd Cotisin, and Councillor, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Major- 
 Geneml of Our Forces; Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillor, Edward 
 Adolphus Somerset, commonly calh-d Lord Seymour ; Our right trusty and 
 right well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, F^dward Geoffrey, Flarl of Derby ; 
 Our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, George 
 Hamilton, Earl of Aberdeen, Knight of tlie Most Ancient and Most Noble Order 
 of the Thistle ; Our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin, Anthony, Earl 
 of Shafteslniry ; Our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, 
 Charles Philip, Flarl of Ilardwicke, Rear-Admiral on the Reserved Half-Pay of 
 Otir Navy ; Our right trusty and riglit well-beloved Cousin, Henry Thomas, 
 Earl of Chichester ; Our right trusty and right woU-belovcd (•ousin, Horatio, 
 Earl Nelson ; Our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, 
 Henry, Earl Grey ; Our right trusty and well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, 
 Henry John, Viscount Palmerston, Knigl t Grand Cross of the Most Honourable 
 Order of the Rath, and one of Our Principal Secretaries of Sfcite : Our right 
 trusty and well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, Stapylton, Viscount Combermere, 
 Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and General of 
 Our Forces ; Our right trusty and well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, Henry, 
 Viscount Hardinge, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the 
 Bath, and General Commanding-in-chief of Our Army ; Our right trusty and 
 well-beloved Henry Robinson, Baron Rokeby, Major General of Our Forces ; 
 Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillor, Charles, Baron Colchester, Rear- 
 Admiral on the Reserved Half-Pay of Our Navy ; Our right trusty and well- 
 beloved Councillor, F'ox, Baron Panmure, Knight of the Most Ancient and 
 Most Noble Order of the Thistle ; Our right trusty and well-beloved John, Baron 
 Seaton, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and 
 
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4 HOYAL COMMISSION. 
 
 (Jfiicrnl of Our Foicch; Our rijijlit fniMty ami woII-IkiIovi-iI ('oiincillor, Mihvanl 
 Iliirft'iiHlifiw, naron Sainf LcoiianlH ; Our rif^lit tnmty atitl wi'll-lif'ovftl 
 Councillor, Fit/ lioy •laiuoH Iltnry, Itaron Italian, Kiii^lit (iraml Crow of tlic 
 Most HoiioMralil)' Order of tin- Hatli, (Sciaral in Our Army, MaNtrr-Cicncral of 
 Our Onlnaiict'. and CoinnuintU-r td'Our Forct'H finployud on iiiiarticidarwrvici' ; 
 Our rij^lit tniHty and wcll-lu'lovcd Cotincillor, Sidney Ilerltert, Our Secretary- 
 at-War; Our truwty and wiil-lH-loved .lanieH Lindsay, eontnionly oalled tlio 
 IlonouniMe .InuicH Lindftay, Colonel of Our ForroH; Our rij^lit truHfy and woll- 
 Jx'loved Councillor, Sir ilanu's Hohert (l«'oij;e (iraliain, Haronut, Kni^lit (iraiiJ 
 CroHn of the Most llonouralile Order of the Itath, and one of tlio Connnissionera 
 for exi'cutiup; tlio ollico of Lord Ilij^h Admiral; Our rijfht truHty and well- 
 l)eloved Councillor, Henry Thomas Lowry Corry ; Our riffht truHty and well- 
 beloved Councillor, Kdwanl Mlliee; Our rijjht trusty and well-lH-loved Councillor, 
 IJohert Vernon Smith ; Our right trusty and well-he loved {'ouncillor. Sir John 
 Somerset Pakinf^ton, Haronot; Our trusty and well-lnjloved Sir Uohert 
 Throckmorton, Uaronet ; Our trusty and well-heloved Sir William I'arkcr, 
 Baronet, Knij^ht (Jrand Cross of the Most Hoiiourahle Order of the llatli, and 
 A(hnirnl of the Whito Sijuadron of Our Fleet; Our trusty and well-holovod 
 Sir iFohn Fox Ilurjfoync, Knipht (irand Cross of the Most Ilonourahlo Order 
 of the Hath, Lieutenant-! reneral of Our Army, and InHjitctor-Qeneral of 
 Fortifications ; Our tnisty and well-belovetl Sir II»nv Dalrymplu lloss, Kuight 
 Commander of the Most Honourable Onler of thu HatlijUnd Lieutenant-Ooneral 
 of Our Forces, and Lieutunant-Oeneral of Our Ordnance ; Our right trusty r.nJ 
 woll-lieloved Councillor the Lonl Mayor of Our City of London for tho timo 
 Iming; Otir trusty and well-beloved Thomas IJaring, Es<^j[uire ; Our trusty ami 
 well-heloved John Oellibrand Hulibard, Kwjuire ; Our trusty and well-belovod 
 John Wilson Fatten, Esquire ; Our trusty and well-ln-loved Samuel Morton 
 Pete, Esquire ; Our trusty and woll-beloved Ednmnd Hurke lloche, Es<|uire ; 
 and Our trusty and well-beloved John Ball, Esiiuire. Greeting : 
 
 WHEREAS, amidst tho glorious succcbsob which, through tho power of 
 Almighty God, have attended Our arms during tho present war, many soldiers, 
 sailors, and marines, serving in Our armies and fleets, have gallantly fallen in 
 battle, or by other casualties during tho war ; and many who shall hereafter be 
 engaged in conflict, or in the further prosecution of hostilities, may also nobly 
 sacrifice their lives in Our service, while protecting tho invaded liberties of 
 Our Ally, and repressing tho lawless ambition of Our enemies : 
 
 AXD WHEREAS it hath l)een npresented to Us, that many of Our 
 loving subjects throughout Our Kingdom and Dominic«n8, actuated by a just 
 sense of the sacred rights of those who fall in their country's service and in 
 support of Our just cause of war, are anxiously desirous of testifying their 
 loyalty and love to Us, and to Our Throne, by a just and generous benevolence 
 towards the widows and orithans of those of Our soldiers, sailors, and marines 
 who have been so killed, or who may hereafter die amidst the ravages and 
 casi. .Ities of war, and also by their gifts and subscriptions to contribute a 
 portion of those means with which Our nation has been blessed towards the 
 succouring, educating, and relieving those, who, by the loss of their husbands 
 and parents in battle, or by death on active service in the present war, are 
 unable to maintain or to support themselves : . 
 
PATRIOTIC FUND. ft 
 
 AND WIIKUKAA it w (>x|R'iliunt Unit public iiummircH nIiouM Im« tiikcii, lUrUiK him n i< 
 
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 and tniit i)ri>i)aruti(iii hIiduM Ihi iiui(Jt< fur tlic muio kt'opiiiir lunl liciiehciiil iippli- nu niun ■ inr lafv 
 
 cation of tlxs wivomi huiiih of money wliidi iimy liciniffnitli, iiiiil fnun tiiiif to cuion ..f funj«. 
 
 tiuio li(<rfnft*'r, tliiriii^ tlio roiitiiiimii<'(> of tlilH Our Woyiil ('uiiuuJHHioii, Ik; k*^'^''* 
 
 Bul)iH'rili('(l, or (!olk'<ti'tl, for all or iiiiy of tlio w^viriil purptiwH iiforcHftid : Ami 
 
 nUo for till' pnrpoHt! of M'curiii^^ micli prompt ami aiitltciitic iiiformatioii aH may 
 
 bo ruquiri'd, to aid tlit> JiiNt and faithful diHtriliutioii of tin; wiid Hovcral huiiih of 
 
 money, when ho nceivcd : And it liatli alno apjmared to I'h, that by isMuiiig 
 
 thiH, Our Royal CommiHHion, greater ettioacy, power, and Hupport, may ho ^^ivon 
 
 to tlu) l)onevolL'iit doHireH of Our lovinj^ HubjectH : And alno that tho rcHpuctivo 
 
 clainiH, nieritH, and iieeeHHitieH uf individual claiiiuiiitH will be duly irKpiirud 
 
 into: And that by permitting nHHistanco to bu n-'tidered by tho oflicerH of Our 
 
 civil, military, and naval HcrviceH wo may prevent tho wrong application, by 
 
 misreproHeiitation or otherwine, of tlumo contrihutioiiH which Our loving 
 
 HubjoctH may hereafter, during tho continuanco of tluH Our Uoyal Conimis- 
 
 Hion, for tho Hovcnil purpoHes aforcHaid, goiiurously and benevolently 
 
 supply : 
 
 NOW KNOW YK, that Wo, having taken into Our couHideration tlio cmitituunn r,™. 
 
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 premisefl, and being eariioHtly doHiroiw, in lasting memory of thoHo who have "',"!*,^"°"""' 
 faithfully fallen in Our service, to encourage the loyal and hearty boncvolonce 
 of Our loving subjectH, which may hereafter be directed towardH tho widowH 
 and orphaim of tho soldierH, Hailorw, and marinoH of Our forces, who may now 
 or hereafter be Horving abroad in Our armieH and fleets, or in Horviccs connected 
 with Our prcRont hostilities, and for other tho several purposes hereinbefore 
 recited Or mentioned, and reposing great trust and confidenco in your fitlclity, 
 discretion, and integrity, IIAVI*] authorized and appointed, and DO by these 
 pre8ent>» authorizo and appoint yon, tho said Prince Albert, the said Duko of Nnmis i.f tuinmi*. 
 Newcastle, tho said Duke of Wellington, the said Lord Seymour, tho said Earl 
 of Derby, the said Earl of AherdeiJii, the said Earl of Shaftesbury, tho said 
 Earl of Ilardwicke, the saitl Earl of Chichester, tho said Earl Nelson, tlio said 
 Earl Orev, tho said Viscount Paimerston, the sJiid Viscount Combormere, the 
 said Victount Hardinge, tho said Haron Uokeby, the said Haron Colchester, 
 tho saiil Baron Panmure, the wjiiJ Huron Seaton, the said Baron St. Leonards, 
 the said Baron Raglan, the said Sidney Herbert, tho said James Lindsay, tho 
 said Sir James Robert George (Iraliam, tho said Ilonry Thomas Lowry Corry, 
 tho said Edward Ellice, the said Roljort Vernon Smith, the said Sir John 
 Somerset Packington, the said Sir Robert Throckmorton, the said Sir William 
 Parker, tho said Sir Thomas Byam Martin, the said Sir John Fox Burgoyno, 
 tho said Sir Hew Dahyinple Ross, the said Lord Mayor of Our City of London, 
 tho said Joseph Hume, tho said Thomas Baring, the said John Gellibraud 
 Hubbard, the said John Wilson Patten, the said Samuel Morton Peto, the said 
 Edward Burko Roche, the said John Ball, to make full and diligent inquiry 
 into the beat mode of aiding the loyalty and benevolence of Our loving subjects, 
 and of ascertaiuing tho best moans by which tho gifts, subscriptions, and con- 
 tributions of Our loving subjects can be best applied, according to the generous 
 intentions of the donor thereof, and from time to time to apply the same as 
 you, Our Commissioners, or any three or more of you, shall think fit or direct, 
 either for tho immediate relief of such special objects of destitution as may 
 come within the meaning and purpose of such benevolence ; or, for any of tho 
 purposes aforesaid, to increase, extend, or make additions to any of Our Royal 
 
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 or otlior charitable institiitioDH fth-caJy founded for similar purpoacs within Our 
 United Kingdom. And further, to apply, or to order and direct the application 
 ol", all Hiich moneys in mich manner as to you Our CommiBHioners, or to any 
 three or nioro of you, ahall seem fit in the premisea; so that you do in all 
 things secure the most iin))artial and beneficent distribution of all such sums 
 as may hereafter and from time bo received under or by virtue of this Our 
 Uoyal ('Oaunissiou. 
 
 i'..»,r t, ( .inimi.. AND KNOW YE that We do by these presents further give and grant 
 
 «iiipiiT< 111 call ppr- • /• 11 11. 
 
 ...n« iMfor.. Hum. fo you, and to any three or more ot you, fuU power and authority to call 
 before yon, ()r any three or more of you, all sueli persons in connection with 
 Our civil, military, and naval service, as you shall judge necessary, by whom 
 you may l)e the l)ett, r informed of '\11 matters and thing most desirable to be 
 done and ]ierformed, and to intpiire into the premises and every part thereof 
 by all other lawful ways and means whatsoever. 
 
 V|>ptMiitnu'iit of 
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 And Our further will and pleasure is. That for the purpoee of aiding yon 
 in the execution of these premises. We do hereby appoint Our trusty and 
 well-belovetl Edmund Gurdiner Fishbourne, Esquire, Captain in Our Navy, 
 and Our trusty and well-beloved John Henry Lefroy, Esquire, Captain in Our 
 Royal Regiment of Artillery, to be joint Honorary Secretaries to this Our 
 Royal Coujinission. . 
 
 A\u\ We do oouunand you Our said Commissioners, upon the occurrence 
 of any vacancy in the office of either or Inith of them the said Secretaries 
 to this Our Royal Commission, that you do from time to time, and as often as 
 the same may occur, proceed according to your discretion to fill up the same 
 by virtue of this Our Royal Conuuission. 
 
 
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 And foi- the fu'ther better and more perfectly enabling all our Our loving 
 subjects, according to their desire and ability, and from time to time and at 
 all times during the existence of this Our Royal Commission, according to 
 their several means and wishes, to contribute to the Itenevolent and praise- 
 worthy objects aforesaid, and that Local Committees may the more readily and 
 speedily be formed throughout Our Kingdom and Dominions, of all Our 
 magistrates, jtistices of the peace, the clergy, and other of Our loving subjects 
 within all cities, parishes, boroughs, and places in Our Kingdom and 
 Domiin'ons, and in Our Colonies, possessions, and territories abroad. It is Our 
 Royal will and pleasure, and WE do for such purpose constitute and appoint 
 tlie Lords Lieutenant, SheriFs, and Custodes Rotulorum for the time being of 
 tlie several counties within Our Kingdom ; the Aldermen and Recorder for 
 the time lieing of Our City of London ; the Lord Provost of Edinburgh for 
 tiie time being ; the Lord Mayor of Dublin for the time being ; the Lord 
 Mayor of York for the time being ; and all other the Mayors, Provosts, 
 RalitVs, and Baillies for the time being of Our cities, boroughs, and corporate 
 towns ; and also all Our Governors-General, Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, 
 and otHcers administering the Governments for the time being of Our 
 territories and Colonial possessions, to be within their several counties, cities, 
 boroughs, governments, and jurisdictions respectively, COMMISSIONERS 
 IN AID of the several duties and services to bj perfonned by you, and for 
 the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, to encourage, aid, and assist the establish- 
 
PATRIOTIC FUND. 7 
 
 ment of all such Local Committees hh may bo useful or necessary in every town, 
 parish, or place within the jtn-isdictions aforesaid, for the several purposes of 
 collecting from time to time all or any gifts, subscriptions, and voluntary 
 contributions as aforesaid, and transmitting the same when so collected to 
 Our Paymaster-General, as is liereiuafter mentioned : Provided always, that 
 each and every such Local Committee shall keep iv correct account of the 
 moneys collected by tho!" respectively ; and each of the said Local Committees 
 shall only be answerable and accountable for tho duo and speedy transmission 
 to Our said Paymaster-General of all sudi stim and sums of money as may 
 from time to time be voluntarily subscribed or collected through its own 
 special means and agency. 
 
 
 And We do authorize and empower tho said COMMISSIONERS IN AID, 
 under the rules and regulations of you Our said Commissioners, or of any 
 three or more of yoii, in all other matters to perform and do such acts as may 
 best promote tho objects of this Otir Royal Commission, din-ing the continu 
 ance thereof, and to encourage and aid a due and faithful fulfilment of tlie 
 benevolent desires of Our loving subjects in this behalf, within the several 
 counties, governments, and jurisdictions aforesaid. 
 
 And for tho safe custody of all moneys which may hereafter be received mJJJI,',!!o"Seru?,,. 
 for the purposes herein set forth, and of all sums of money already subscribed »«"» i'"""""' 
 or given for any such purpose as aforesaid, which may be didy handed over 
 for the purpose of being applied under this Our Royal Comiaisaion, Our Royal 
 will and pleasure further is, and We do hereby direct and command Our right 
 trusty and well-beloved Councillor, Edward John, Baron Stanley of Alderley, 
 Our Paymaster-General, or Our Paymaster-General for the time being, to 
 receive and safely keep all and every sum and sums of money wliich by virtue 
 of this Our Royal Conunission may at any time or times, and from time to 
 time hereafter during the continuance of this Our Royal Commission, be 
 received and paid, but subject nevertheless to the orders and directions of you 
 Our said Commissioners, or of any three or more of you, and also to such 
 drafts of the Executive and Finance Committee as are hereinafter mentioned, 
 and which may be in accordance with the rules aud regulations of you Our 
 said Commissioners. 
 
 And to this end We do command our said Paymaster-General to open and '••ynnstcr-cicm- 
 
 » i ral todjieiiftccount 
 
 keep a separate account at the Rank of England, and that he do pay to the *l^l^^^l^^"!^{a 
 
 credit of such account, which shall be called and known by the name of the ^""''• 
 
 " PATRIOTIC FUND," all and every sum and sums of money wliich he may at 
 
 any time hereafter receive, under or by virtue of this Our Royal Commission ; 
 
 and that Our said Paymaster-General do causes jiaynients to be made therefrom 
 
 by virtue of such drafts or orders as may be addressed to him by or on behalf of 
 
 you Our said Commissioners, and, subject to your direction and authority, 
 
 by your said Secretaries or either of them, or by the said Executive and 
 
 Finance Committee, or by any two or more of such Conuuittee for the time 
 
 being. 
 
 And in order to facilitate the imprest to Our said Paymaster-General of ApiK.iiitmii.t ..i 
 
 ,,,,..,. Ill- p in Kxcculivf ami 
 
 v and all subscriiitions, donations, and collections ot moneys now or hereafter Fii'»i><-c com- 
 
ROYAL COMMISSION. 
 
 to be made, or which from time to time during the oontinunnoe of tliis Our 
 Uoyal Commission may be received, for any of the several purposes aforesaid, 
 and also for the purpose of carrying into effect what you Our said Com- 
 missioners, or any three or more of you, shall hereafter direct to be done in 
 respect to the said subscriptions, donations, and collections so expected to be 
 made as aforesaid, We hereby authorise you Our said Commissioners, or any 
 three or more of you, to nominate and ap|)oint any three or more persons 
 whomsoever, as to you shall seem meet, to be an Executive Committee in the 
 premises; and Our pleasure is that such Executive Committee shall also be 
 a Finance Cimmittee, with power to select their own Chairman, and liaving the 
 direction and control, under such orders and regulations as may hereafter from 
 time to time be made by you, or by any three or more of you, over the receipts 
 and expenditure of the said several sums of money which from time to time 
 during the continuance of this Our Royal Commission may be collected, as 
 aforesaid ; and, subject to such your orders and regulations, the said Executive 
 and Finance Committee, or any two or more of them, shall and may order and 
 direct the payment and disbursement of any sum or sums so to bo received by 
 Our said Paymaster-General to the account of the said " Patriotic J'und." 
 
 V 
 tl 
 
 o 
 
 V 
 
 Koytl Commis- 
 aionen to fill up' 
 VKuein in Exe- 
 eativeuid Finance 
 rommittee. 
 
 Commissioner to 
 Audit Accounts of 
 Kxecutive and Fi- 
 nance Commitlcv. 
 
 Not to llTerdraw 
 or Anticipate 
 Balances. 
 
 And iv is Our further will and pleasure that you, or any three or more of 
 you, do from time to time, according to your discretion, fill up any such 
 vacancies as may occur in such Executive and Finar oe Committee, as occasion 
 shall require, and that the said Executive and Fin'^nce Cor-mittee, or any three 
 or more of them, do from time to time appoint their own clerk, who shall also 
 duly record their proceedings, and which said proceedings shall be duly 
 preserved and kept, and the said Executive and Finance Committee, or any 
 three of them, inclusive of their Chairman for the time being if he shall be then 
 present, shall from time to time, and at all times, report to you as and when you 
 may desire, all matters and things that they shall or may have done in the 
 premises, and shall render accounts of all disbursemente and payments which 
 may be made, or ordered to be made, by them in manner aforenaid under the 
 orders and regulations so to be received from you, or any three or more of you, 
 as aforesaid. And further that you do, as soon as conveniently may be after 
 the receipt of such accounts, proceed to audit, by one or more of your number, 
 all such accounts, disbursements, and payments, so that there be no expenditure 
 of any sum or sums of money by anticipation or in advance of any balance 
 already in hand of Our said Paymaster-Ckineral to the account of the said 
 " Patriotic Fund." 
 
 ^. 
 
 Commissioners to And Our further will and pleasure is, that vou or any three or more of vou, 
 
 Iteport to Wuecn i c i • i ii • i .' ' 
 
 from ume to Ume. whcu and SO oftcn as need or occasion shall require, so long as this Our Com- 
 mission shall continue in force, do report to Us in writing, under your hands 
 and seals respectively, all and every of the several proceedings of yourselves 
 had by virtue of these presents, together with such other matters, if any, as 
 may be desei-ving of Our Royal consideration touching or concerning the 
 premises. 
 
 commtssionersto Aud lastly. We do by these presents ordain that this Our Commission 
 
 meet notwith- . . . 
 
 ■i^m?nr"' sha,]] ccntiiiue in full force and virtue, and that you Our said Commissioners, or 
 any tliree or more of you, shall and may from time to time, and at any place or 
 
Ib Our 
 
 PATRIOTIC FUND. 
 
 
 
 placoB, proceed in the execution thereof, and of every other matter anu thing 
 therein contained, although the same bo not continued from time to time by 
 adjournment. 
 
 T, aa 
 the 
 
 Given at our Court at Balmoral, this seventh day of October, in tlie year 
 of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and in the eighteenth 
 year of Our Reign. 
 
 By Her Majesty's command. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 
FIRST REPORT. 
 
 TO THE QrEEN\S MOST KXL'EI-LENT MAJESTY. 
 
 We, Your Majesty's CoininiHHioneiH fur tlio forniatiim iind application of a 
 Patriotic Fund, for the relief of the Widows and Orjdiaiis of the Soldiers, 
 Sailors, or Marines who may he killed or may die on active service, during the 
 [)rcsent War, now humhly heg t<i present to Your Majesty a I'^iist ]{eport of 
 our j)roceedings, and of the arrangements whieh we have deemed it expedient 
 to make, for giving an early effect to Your Majesty's gracious intentions. 
 
 2. Acting under the sanction of one of Your ^lajesty's Secretaries of State, Moa«\ireH taken for 
 our Honorary Secretaries proceeded at once, on the promulgation of the Royal 
 Commission in the " London Gazette " of the Kith October 1854, to communi- 
 cate with the Commissionei's in aid hoth at home and abroad, and to retiuest 
 
 their assistance for the formation of Local Committees to collect and transmit 
 the gifts and voluntary subscriptions of Your Majesty's loyal subjects to the 
 Patriotic Fund. To facilitate those measures our Honorary Secretaries issued 
 the notice (A.) in the Appendix. 
 
 3. The unprecedented amoimt which in the short space of six months has Aiuount collected, 
 been contributed in answer to that appeal, is a most satisfactory proof of the whom rccoived. 
 eagerness with which Your Majesty's subjects have embraced an occasion of 
 
 testifying at once their loyal stipport of the great contest in which our country 
 is engaged, and their recognition of the claims of those gallant men who may 
 unhappily fall in it. A sum exceeding a Million sterling has now been jiaid 
 into the Bank of England to our account. Every class of the community has 
 contributed liberally to the Fimd. On the one hand, the nobility, the gentry, 
 the great corporate mercantile bodies of the kingdom, have proportioned their 
 donations to the greatness of the occasion, and to their large share of the 
 blessings bestowed by Providence upon this favoured land. On the other, we 
 liave found that the brilliant deeds of our countrymen in arms have awakened 
 ecjual sympathy in every class of humble life, even among those whose generous 
 impulses can be gratified only at the cost of privation and self-denial. Contri- 
 butions of large amount have been received from agricultural districts and 
 rural parishes, swelled by the spontaneous bounty of the peasantry ; artizans, 
 domestic servants, workpeople, labourers, individually and in associations, have 
 felt a patriotic pride and a generous satisfaction in answering their Sovereign's 
 appeal. In one striking instance, the inmates of the Eeformatory Asylum, 
 Smith Street, Westminster, having literally nothing of their own to give, 
 denied themselves a meal, that its value might be offered as their gift. We 
 deem it a fact deserving Your Majesty's notice, that even the children of the 
 poorer classes have very generally contributed their " mite " to enlarge the 
 amount of the Nation's bounty. * 
 
FT 
 
 12 
 
 FIRST REPORT OF THE 
 
 SituH I'olli'cted 
 from coloiiii's, 
 EtiglUli riiRiclentN 
 alirnnd, niul from 
 foroigiu'i-s. 
 
 (.'oUeotioiis I'liiin 
 foreign t'ountricH. 
 
 Amount of fund. 
 
 Distribution of re- 
 lief by Honorary 
 >*ecreturief*. 
 
 Aj)))oiutuient of 
 Finance Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 4. It will 1)0 our duty licroiiftor to mihniit to Your Majesty an detailed a 
 statement as uiay be practiealile of tlie Houroes from which the Patriotic Fund 
 has been derived. Your Majewty will he gratified to hoar that the contrihutionH 
 have not heen confined to Great Britain or even to Your Majesty'H HuhjectH. 
 \'ery largo suiuh have been received from HritiHli reHidentn abroad. Your 
 Majesty's representatives in the Colonies, acting as Commissioners in Aid, have 
 been warmly seconded by the loyal feelings of Your Majesty's colonial subjects, 
 in proof of which wo can point to magnificent contributions from India, from 
 the North American Colonies, from Australia, and in fact from nearly every 
 British possession ; amongst other contributions may be mentioned that of the 
 Six Nation Indians, who have subscribed the smn of .€100. Your Majesty's 
 Consuls General, Consuls, and other influential British subjects also, in all parts 
 of the world, have manifested a laudable zeal in ccmtributing themselves, and 
 in encouraging and collecting contributions to the National Fund. We have 
 jieculiar pleasure in reporting tt) Your Majesty that the Natives of many 
 Foreign Countries also have spontaneously and largely contributed, and have 
 accompanied their donations with kind expressions of sympathy for the suflFerers, 
 and testimony to their sense of the justice of the War in which Your Majesty 
 and Allies are engaged. 
 
 5. We i)eg to stibmit, in Appendix B., a detailed account of the sums 
 received in each month since the opening of the subscription, and a statement 
 of the mode in which they have been invested. 
 
 G. The distribution of relief was commenced by the Honorary Secretaries in 
 the month of November 1 S.'it, under a sanction jjrovisionally given to tlieni 
 for that ])urpo8e, by one of Your Majesty's Secretaries of State. Under this 
 arrangement, aboUi, 73 Widows and 114 Orphan Children were actually 
 leceiving assistance at the period when we first entered upon the active dis- 
 charge of tlie duties which your Majesty had been pleased io impose upon us. 
 A List of our Meetings, of which regular Minutes have been kept, will be 
 found in Appendix C. 
 
 7. In conformity with the authority given to us, we proceeded at once to 
 nominate an Executive and Finance Committee, composed of the following : — 
 
 The Right Honourable Lord St. Leonards. 
 Colonel the Honoural)le James Lindsay, M.P. 
 Lieutenant Colonel Shafto Adair, M.P. 
 Thom.as Baring, Esquire, M.P. 
 George C. Glyn, Esquire, M.P. 
 Sir Alexander Spearman, Bart. 
 Vice-Admiral Henry Hope, C.B. 
 Major R. J. Little, Royal Marines. 
 W. G. Anderson, Esqiiire, Treasury. 
 R. C. Kirby, Esquire, War Office. 
 Captain E. G. Fishbourne, R.N. 
 Captain J. H. Lefroy, R.A. 
 
 Having selected the Lord St. Leonards as their Chairman, this Committee 
 has since held regular Meetings, and has made us two Reports, of which we 
 have approved, and which we humbly submit to Your Majesty, in Appendix 
 1). 1 and 2. 
 
ROYAL COM MISSION MRS OP THE PATRIOTIC FIND 
 
 i:{ 
 
 8. Upon a ciireful considcnitioii of our powerB, we were led to the conclusion poweis cmiVntd 
 tiiat, while they do not exclude the Widows and OrphiUiH of CommiHHJoned l>ytl'>''"i"'"i'-'<i''i 
 Offlcera of the Army, Navy, and MarincH, yet, inaHinueh as a provision has heen 
 made hy Your Majesty's I'liision Warrant and Couipassionate Allowances 
 for the relief of elaiuiants of that class, they cannot in froiioral ho considered 
 as primary ohjects of the Royal ('ommission. ("onsefjuently, wo have deferred ciainiM .,1 whlow-. 
 for the most part the claims of this class till the numiier and urfyeney of those llcfelJ'eT''' '^"'''''* 
 of the primary classes, vi/.:— those of Widows and Orphans of N-ui-commis- 
 sioned and Petty Officers, Private Soldiers, Seamen, and Marines, for whom no 
 such provision exists, shotild he known and provideil for. We are luippy, 
 however, to ho ahle to re[)ort, that through the instrumentality of the Com- 
 mittee of Amateur Artists, several sums of money have already heen placed at Anmtiui- AitistM 
 our disposal, for innnediate distrihution amoiigst the Widows and Orphans of h,m',s|..''''' ''"'"'''' 
 all classes of Officers. Wo have already offered our warm acknowledgments to 
 the Committee; and we have to report to Vottr Majesty that the money has 
 heen apjdied in the relief of several jircssing claims, and has elicited very 
 grateful acknowledgments from the reci[)ients. 
 
 0. Omitting, from motives of delicaev, the names of the Aiinlieants, we AiiplientioMs ..f 
 
 ' II' ,„^ ^, „.. , 
 
 8ul)mit to Your Majesty, in Appendix E., the ea.ses of all tlio.se ladies who have aiulOiplmns.' 
 
 applied for assistance, as an index to the circumstances in which it is too 
 prohable that many giillant Officers may leave their Widows and families, in 
 the event of their falling in the present War. 
 
 10. Truly gratifying, and indeed magnificent, as is the amount of the First cstinmte of 
 subscription received, there is little reason to doubt that the claims upon it widows nnd 
 will be correspondingly great. In February we were led to suppose, upon the ''' """*' 
 
 best data we were able to collect, that the naval and military operations in 
 which the country had then been engaged, had already thrown upon the bounty 
 of the country 2,000 Widows and 3,400 Orphans, and on this supposition the 
 first Scale of Allowance that we sanctioned was framed ; but, finding the 
 estimate of inimbers, especially in the ca.se of Orphans, was excessive, we have 
 been induced to substitute an amended Scale. These are given in Appen- 
 dices F and G. How many may be added to these, should the war unhappily 
 be prolonged, it is impossible for us to conjecture. It cannot be doubted, 
 however, that the number will be considerable. Each week, under present 
 circumstances, from 70 to 80 Widows are added to the number receiving 
 relief, not in many cases from the recent death of their husbands, but from the 
 fact that they had not been previously infonned of their bereavement. 
 
 11. The total number of Widows of the primary class, who have actually Numhciof Wi.low^ 
 applied for and received relief up to the 10th of May 1855, falls considerably reeciviiy roiii't. *^ 
 short of the number we estimated for above ; it is, 1,487 ; and in connexion 
 
 with them are 1,802 Children, exclusive of 33 Children who liiive lost lioth 
 parents. The table in Appendix H. shows the districts in which they are 
 residing, and the numbers belonging to the Army and Navy respectively. 
 
 12. We beg humbly to lay before Your Majesty, in a concise form, a series of Hc«oiiitioiisioitli. 
 
 1. 1 ■ I /• 1 . • 1 p T-i J- /( );iii(laiice of till' 
 
 Resolutions we have come to, lor the present guidance ot our liixecutive lorn- Finance Com- 
 mittee, in the distribution of the Fund to the prinaary classes, and which Your "" "'' 
 M.ajesty will find in Appendix I. 
 
PT 
 
 Muinlllivt Witll 
 
 I'l'fi'rmice to 
 Kriiiriktinn. 
 
 14 FinST IIKPORT OF THE IIOYAL COMMISSIONERS, &o. 
 
 l.'{. Ill llio oiuinomtion of tin- Itouovoluiit ohjootfl propoHiMl by Votir 
 Maji'«t_v*N Hovi'l I'oiniiiisMioii, n |iroiniiK'nt plauo Ih ji;iveii to llio all-iiii|iortiiiit 
 li(M)ii of Etlucrtlioii. To tliiH olijwt wo hjiv(» iliioctcil our careful nttontion. 
 In till' fjreat utUH'ituiiity wliicli iiiiiHt prevail for hoiiio tinu' to come m to the 
 iiiiiiilier rf Orplian riiildreii of any chiHM wlio may look to uh for prot^'otion, it 
 would lie premature to orifjinate any larpe or jjfeiieral iiieaHiire. In many eanew 
 lieiievoKnt intlividiiaiN liave iiiulertaken the eliar^e and education of Orphan 
 Cliildreii. Some of the |)riiieipal Orphan AMyhmiH have offered to provide for 
 otheiH; and our Executive and Finance ('ommittee Iuih ^iven a general notice 
 that it will defray the small weekly eharjje incurred hy Hendinj; any of the 
 children of motheiH relieved from the Fund to the ordinary seli(n)lH of their 
 localities, having due regard to the religiouH opiniouHof the children or of their 
 parents. We have further authorized this ('ommittee to place orphans for 
 education in any aHvhim, industrial school, or other estahlishment for receiving 
 orphans or destitute cliildreii, which offers itself in their neighbourhood ; but 
 for the present we have (hoiight it (K'sirable not to authorize the Committee to 
 piinhasi- perpetual rights of presentation, or to endow or enlarge any such 
 establishments. 
 
 (Signed) ALRERT. 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 
 WELEIN(iTON. 
 
 SEYMOUR. 
 
 DEURY. 
 
 ABERDEEN. 
 
 SHAFTESRURY. 
 
 IIARDWICKE. 
 
 CIIICIIESTEli. 
 
 NELSON. 
 
 CxREY. 
 
 PALMERSTON. 
 
 COMRERMERE. 
 
 HARDINGE. 
 
 COLCHESTER. 
 
 PANMURE. 
 
 SEATON. 
 
 ST. LEONARDS. 
 
 SIDNEY HERBERT. 
 
 J AS. LINDSAY. 
 
 J. R. G. GRAHAM. 
 
 H. T. L. CORRY. 
 
 EDWARD ELLICE. 
 
 R. Y. SMITH 
 
 JOHN PA KINGTON. 
 
 RT. THROCKMORTtJN 
 
 WM. PARKER. 
 
 J. BURGOYNE. 
 
 HEW ROSS. 
 
 FRANCIS GRAHAM MOON. 
 
 (LoKi» Mayor.) 
 TIIOS. BARING. 
 .1. G. HUBBARD. 
 J. WILSON PATTEN. 
 S. M. PETO. 
 FERMOY. 
 JOHN BALL. 
 
 Palace of Wf.stminster, 
 lOth May, 1855. 
 
( 16 
 
 ApPKNlUX A. 
 
 liov Ai, ('(iMMrhsKiN OK THE I'atiuotic Fi;M). 
 
 Notice. 
 
 Tlie OlliciH (.r till' I{(iyal (VmiiaisHioneiH of tlic " Patriotic Fiiiid" 
 are, for tli.- pivscnt, at No. KIa (Jrcat, Ucorjro Sfrout, corner of I'ar- 
 liaim.'iit Street, WcMtiniimtor. 
 
 Tiie luuirNol'atteiiilance will Ih> from 11 a.m. till t r.M. dailv. 
 
 Tlie "CoiiiiuiHMioiierH in Aid" of the " Patriotic Kiiiid" an- car- 
 MCHtly requested, without further notice, to take inniiediate Nteps for 
 friving pul.licity, within tlieir Hcvoral jiiriHdictions, t(. the K'oval 
 ronuuiHHinii. in order that Local (\imiuitfeis he formed, wlierever 
 practical (le, with the least poMsihle delay. 
 
 "Local Committoes" will, accordinjj: to their diHcretion, obtain 
 Contrii)utionH to the Patriotic Kimd, t-itlur hy |)ul.lic .Moctinfjrs, 
 estahlisiiinf; Suhscription Lists, or otherwise. 
 
 The acknowIed<,'ment of individual donations, where obtained 
 tiu'ough the " ( !ommissioncrs in Aid" or by "Local Committees." 
 must in all cases, to avoid error and expense, be lift ixchisivelv t(. 
 the " Local Conmiittccs." 
 
 Local Committees arc rocpiested to make up tiieir first Subscription 
 Lists and Accounts in or before the first week in December next, and 
 to remit the amounts in or before the following' week, bv drafts pav- 
 ablo to the "Patriotic Fund," crossed "Hank of lOni-Iand," to the 
 Secretaries of the Commission, or direct to the Hank of IOni;land. 
 
 Total amounts oidy, as transmitted by Local Committees, will be 
 acknowledged at fixed periods in two London daily newspapers. 
 
 Donations, Subscrii)tions, and Contributions, to the "Patriotic 
 Fund," other than those paid to Local Committees, will ])e received 
 by the Secretaries at the OlTices of the Royal Commission as above, at 
 the IJank of England, and by all London Bankers. Aclvnowledg- 
 ments of the receipt will appear, from time to time, in the London 
 pajiers above mentioned ; but it is hoped that no separate receipts or 
 acknowledgments will be required from the Honorary Secretaries, 
 whose duties will be otherwise sufficiently laborious. 
 
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 itto received in the month of March, 1855 
 
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 Ditto received from 1st to 5lh Mny. IM.-) ^ ,j|,, ,^ ^^ 
 
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 Atnoniit ofConlrilmtions hrmiglit to iircimnt at tlir Hank of Knijiund . i;<JH!t,92l I -j 
 
 Kills not yi't iliw .... /-i -.. . . 
 
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 ,, ;M, Ditto, (ircat Sontlicrn and Western liuiluay C'iini[iaiiy, at 
 
 4J percent, per aiinnin 20. (KM) > ii 
 
 April 12, C60,0(X) Exchequer KoiiiLs, at ,'{^ p(>r cent, per aniaim . ."ill,4ili :i o 
 
 „ 2(), t5,()0() New lirnnsuick (ioveniineiit IJoiid.^i, at per cent. 
 
 per annum ... .'sIllL' 10 ii 
 
 Loiiii to the ,St. Catliarine's Dm'k Company, at 1} per ceiii. 
 per aiinnin 20,00(i O i) 
 
 I'dtal Invested C'.)69.,J77 4 
 
 D2 
 
( IS ) 
 
 Al'l'KN?»iN II. rotifiinti,/ 
 
 I'ATIlloTir 
 RkcKII'TH and P.WMKNTs liclwccti thr 
 
 Uwr.ii'T". 
 
 ^'""•'■''"" ••<■'"'••' •xl".'.!, imii Ocioh. r, |8.VI.«ii<l Mil May, IH/Irt. tW<).((L'l I •_' 
 
 IntiTi'nt nil K\('lii'i|iu>r ltill» 
 
 Iiii.Ti*! nil Si. <'iiiliiiriiif\ Dock ('(.in|Miiiy"» Di'iM'iiiiiriHt 
 I'atnmii' An rAhiliiijnn. S|H.,.iiil Ki„i.l I'cr Wi.lnHs nCOfflcT* . 
 
 •-'17 U\ II 
 •Mi .« I 
 L'.'-'IMI O ,1 
 
 m>2,:>i'2 (i 
 
 Aninnnt n( ConirilmtioM., broUHrht fn iUTOiint a. th.- Uai.k „f Kn„h, 
 Hills lint vtl clue . 
 
 'ir'.>« AllUiiillt oCtlje Kiilicj 
 
 ni<liuii| \)H\l.>rJl I -J 
 '>I,.J24 .) li 
 
( 10 ) 
 
 Appknuix n. — rontinuid. 
 
 Kim.. 
 
 Kitli ()<-f(.li(r titiil III.' Jili ^f,l\•, IH.V't. 
 
 V.W MKM 
 
 invratiiH'iii wn.:.:? \ o 
 
 Cmitml A»»(icinti(iii, IJcniiltariri' fnmi St. Hclciin -jo ;) ,) 
 
 Ditto, 'xirliim u' t'lillirticm at Vmi Diiincii'.t r.iinl 
 
 ttvMirdi'tl fiir Wives iiiiil l''iiiiiilicmifSM|(li(ir« .'03 i\ _> 
 Ditto. |iiprli()ii (if CiiritrilmtiiiiH fi'i.ni Virlnria. N, S. \\., 
 
 iiwunli'il tiir Wives lUKJ F:iiiillii.» of Snjilli'i-s -,(M) D (I 
 
 "ill", |iroeee<U of C'diirert at Aiioliliuid, N. 'A., (or Wives 
 
 and Knniilies of Siililiers ,l,'i S i) 
 
 f/owcstoft I,ooiil Coinmittee, miiiii rt'iiiillfd in error 378 1 1 <; 
 
 CnutlHaiid Co.. Hiim |mi<i in error, a« fnmi .S«'aliam llarlxmr . . 2l.'i 
 ,\wMM'ialioii for Heiief of Wives. &p. of Seamen and Marines, |iiirtion of 
 
 Coilet'tion at Van Dieinen's liund ,-,();j o •.' 
 
 Caldloninn Asyliiiii, ine.lnd(>d in Iteniiltanee fr Cuiiishay, N. II. . . .-, 
 
 Counsel's Fee mid ExiK'iises in the prciiaralioii of Die ('onnnissi .\-^ pj ji 
 
 Advt>rtiitiri|;r List* of .Siilisrri|ilioii8 1. .").")() 11 '1 
 
 Allowanres to Widows, &c. (inelndinK' Advaiiees lo .Staff Olfieers nnil 
 
 "'•"•r")* (I.OIS U •) 
 
 Ditto. ditto, lo Widows of OiKcers from Knnd nrisinif from 
 
 exhibition and sale of worlds of Amalenr Artists at Hnrlington 
 
 Ilonso I'.LVK) (I 
 
 Kx|ienses of tin? Dllice. viz.. Salaries, Stationery, I'oslaife. Fni'l and 
 
 Liglitinfjf, Coneli Hire, and Aliscellaneiins I'ay nis , . ()S7 m 4 
 
 982,(i.3() l:i 7 
 
 IJuliiiiw <),Oll (1 II 
 
 C<)<)*.>..')42 (i 
 
 • The Fniul In linl)lc for a funlu-i' sum fur Ki'licf pivcii hy tin. (Viitr.il Associalion to Widows ami 
 
 ()r|ilmii8 from die 1st of January to llio purloil at which they were pin 1 on tlie hooks of the I'nfriotio 
 
 Fmiil, hut the amount rannol at present l)e ascerlalneil. 
 
? 
 
 ( 20 ) 
 
 Appendix C. 
 
 r. 
 
 1ST OK Tin: Mi;KTIN(iS OV THK I^OYAI, CoMMISSIONKIIn III IMF I' 
 
 VTHIOI'IC 
 
 I si .\[rctill 
 'Jllil Diftn 
 
 ■■U'l Ditto 
 lili Ditto 
 
 FlM 
 
 IHtli DccfinlxT, iHf)!. 
 null Keliniitrv, Isri.'t. 
 12tli April. 
 Stli Ma v. 
 
( '2\ ) 
 
 AlTHVIHN T> I. 
 
 IMII8T in: PORT 
 
 or 
 TIIK KXHCUTIVK .VXD FINAXCK COMMITTKH 
 
 TO 
 
 TTIK ifOVAL ('0MMIS8I()Ni;i?S. 
 
 Yot K (Juminittt.'i' liaviii^ iiii't on ITtli Jiinuiiry, 18.')'», I'lecti-d llic l{ij;-lit lldiidtir- 
 jihle Lord St. Leonards a.s ( 'liainniin, and at once proccodwl to consider tlic 
 qiioHtions relcrrod to tlicMti liy ti ■• Woyal ('ommisHioncrH. After several Meetirii;s. 
 tlit'V canu- to tlie tollowing' Hcsoliitinns. 
 
 Iflt. That the foUowinj,' lie tlie Scale of Allowance for tlie Widows ;ijid 
 Orphans of tli.' Non-Coniniissioned Otlicers and Trivates of the Army, ;iiid 
 MarincK ;iiid IVtty (Mlieers iind Seamen of the Xnvy, snhject to the co-idition 
 in the Royal ('oniniis«ion, (hat the claiinant.s are unisble to maintain or snjiiM.rt 
 theJJiselves. 
 
 The allowance of a Widow, or a portion thereof, when necessary, niiiy he 
 applied for the benefit of the Oiplians wlio may have lost lioth parents, iitidei 
 the direction of the Committee. 
 
 SCALK of Al-LOWANCB for tllU WlOOWS ailll OuPllANSof till' NOX-COMMISSIONKI> OPFleKHS allll 
 
 I'uiVATKs of the AiiMY and Maiunes, and 1'kttv Offu f.iis and Skamkn of llir N \vv. 
 
 
 Corrc- 
 spoiul- 
 
 ing 
 KaiiKK, 
 lioyal 
 Navy. 
 
 Wii 
 
 
 WKKKI.Y AM.()WA 
 
 \( with a Family liv 
 Moilur. 
 
 \ci:. 
 
 
 
 
 AKMV 
 
 Atro 
 ROYAL MAHINKS. 
 
 0W8. 
 
 iig with Iliu 
 
 
 KEMAHKS. 
 
 One. 
 
 Two. 
 
 "'liililren 
 'riirue. 
 
 Fiiur. 
 
 Five. 
 
 
 Class. 
 
 S. 
 
 ./. 
 
 .S-. ./. 
 
 ,. ./. 
 
 ,.. (I. 
 
 s. .1. 
 
 .•i. 
 
 </. 
 
 
 KlaH' Non-rommis- 1 
 
 5tli 
 
 i\ 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 SO S () 
 
 !) 
 
 !) 
 
 6 
 
 
 sioiu'd Officer . . 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Serj?i'ant. (Culonr 1 
 St'rtrc:inl,(i(/.a\vefk \ 
 
 (itii. 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 (> (1 
 
 7 
 
 1 (> 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 G 
 
 Sixpcnci' adilitiiiiial iht 
 wi't'k to lu' ijivt'ii to 
 t'vory iiilirin iktshii 
 
 ailditional) . . .1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 C'orporal or Boinbardicr 
 
 ■Jtli. 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 (i (5 
 
 T 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 
 l)ninniicr,'rrnni|ict».T, 1 
 
 Hill. 
 
 T 
 
 n 
 
 4 () 
 
 5 6 
 
 fi 
 
 (i (•) 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 « 
 
 or I'rivatc . . f 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 As the fore^'oins? Scale tor Widows and Orphans mtist 
 necessarily he inllnenced by the various circmnstances of every 
 case, althoup:h the scale is to be the general rule, the (\mimitte.- 
 
( '^2 ) 
 
 aiv \u lif at lilioity to duviato from if in cihch calling for tlio 
 t'xen-isL' of their discretion ; — HicknenH and lying-in, for oxamiilc, 
 will admit of txcciition. 
 
 Thu allowances arc in no instance to l)c transferred or 
 assigned, and tlioir continued payment must depend on tlie cir- 
 cumstances of the parties: and the sufficiency of thu fund to 
 answer the demands ujton it. 
 
 Your (V)unin"tteo wore desirous of reconnnending a larger 
 allowance, liut the following estimate of the prohable claims on 
 the Fund induced them at present not to go beyond the limits 
 in the scale. 
 
 Your (.'(inunittee estimate the deaths, from the best sources 
 to which they have had access, to be as follows : — 
 
 At Varna 752 
 
 Alma, Inkerman, lialaklava, as api)ears by the 
 
 Kcturns in the "London Gazette" . . . 2,301 
 
 Scutari, up to the 7th January . . . 2,0-14 
 Deaths at the average of UO per day by sickness 
 at Scutari and IJalaklava, in 24 days, from the 8th 
 
 to the .'51st of January ...... 1,440 
 
 Missing ....... 170 
 
 Deaths on passage from Scutari . . . I,;j00 
 
 To which must he added 800 for the Navy . 800 
 
 These numbers are independent of tlic deaths 
 ill the trenches since the 1st of Decemlier, and of 
 those wliicli took place at Malta, on the passage 
 home, and after arrival in England, making iji all . 
 
 8,81(1 
 
 !),000 
 
 The proportion of men in the Army who are 
 married may lie taken at one-sixth, and that of tiie 
 Xavy at one-fourth, or both at one-fifth. We estimate 
 the numlier of widows at 1,700, and the numlior of 
 children at .'{,000, and tlie expense as follows : — 
 
 The average age of the widows being ,'50, a 
 pension for life would be worth 10 years' purchase, 
 at 0/. 10s. a year t;.'{2.'{,005 
 
 Maintenance and education of children may 
 be taken at (il. jier annum for 10 years . . 180,000 
 
 Expenses for lo years, with per centage on 
 pavments or 15 years ;{5 000 
 
 A few Officers' widows, who may be proper 
 oltjccts of relief, whilst the general distribution 
 l)roceedB 1 2,000 
 
 £550,005 
 
 Y'our Conuuittee fear, if the war continues, the liabilitioi 
 of the Fund may be largely increased. 
 
 OH 
 
( 23 ) 
 
 3. That the alluwiuicc to WidowH cease upon their second marriage, unless 
 continued by an express order of the Coramittoo; but during any subsequent 
 widowhootl the widow is to be at lil)erty to apply to Ikj replaced on the Fund ; 
 but no woman is to continue to receive an allowance if she shall, in the 
 opinion of the Committee, by proflipate condtict dishonour the memory of her 
 husband. 
 
 4. That the Committee be at liberty to place mch Widows as they may 
 deem expedient in the Cambridge Asylum, at such an annual sum or sums, 
 or sura or sums in gross once paid, and under such stipulations as may be 
 deemed necessary, and as the Committee may think proper ; but subject to the 
 !)th Resolution. 
 
 5. That Widows who have received large sums as Bonuses from the Cen- 
 tral, or other Associations, be informed, that till these sums are exhausted, at a 
 rate of expenditure equal to the scale of the Royal Commission of the Patriotic 
 Fund, their further applications cannot be entertained. 
 
 6. That gratuitous offers of providing for Orphans, or otherwise, be 
 accepted at the discretion of the Committee. 
 
 7. That where Parishes or Individuals are willing to maintain and educate 
 Orphans at their own expense, the Widows at once may be relieved by the 
 Fund, and the Children, when they are no longer provided for by such Parishes 
 or Individuals, shall be entitled to come on the Fund in like manner as if they 
 were now applicants for relief. 
 
 8. That tlie different Local Committees be requested to place the Children 
 in the schools of their several localities, and pay for them if necessary, until a 
 final arrangement can be made for them. If the Mother does not live with 
 them, they should bo placed with respectable people to board and lodge. 
 
 9. That where Orphans are of a fit age to be placed at school or in service, 
 or to be bound apprentice, the Committee to be at liberty to place them out 
 accordingly, and to ])lace any Orphans for education in any asylum, industrial 
 Sch(K)!, or otiior establishment for receiving orplians or destitute children-; but 
 the Committee is not to be at liberty to purchase any perpetual right of pre- 
 sentation, or to endow or etdarge any such establishment. If after all the other 
 claims on the Fund are satisfied a surplus shoidd remain on hand, then the sub- 
 ject of endowments shall be submitli-d to the consideration of the Royal Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 10. Tlrat the Commissioners having determined — 
 
 " That under the terms of the Royal Commission, the Widows and 
 " Orphans of Connnissioned OfHcers are eligible for Relief from the 
 " Patriotic Fund, but inasmuch as i)rovision is made by Parliament 
 " for granting Pensions to i)ersons of this class, the Commissioners 
 " consider that assistance ought only to be given to them in special 
 " cases of great necessity, and that the relief of Non-Coinniissioned 
 " Ollicers and Privates ought to be regarded as the primary object of 
 -' ' " the Fund." 
 
 E 
 
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 ( 24 ) 
 
 Tlio rommittoc propose the followiiif^f scale of nllownncc for tlie Widows 
 and Orpliiins of Commissioned Officers fulling within the ahovo roBolution, and 
 subject to the provision for the Widows and Orphans of Non-t'ommiHsioncd 
 Officers nnd Privates being deemed the primary objects of the Fund ; the 
 ('ommittee to be at liberty, nevertheless, if they think that the Fnnd will 
 permit it, to allow to the "Widow and Children of any Commissioned Officer, 
 in cases of gnat necessity, an allowance not exci'eding the scale jmiposed, 
 although it may not at the time be ascertained how many claimants of the prior 
 class may have to be provided for. The sum of 12,000/. already mentioned is 
 intendetl to include such Widows and Children, and also the Widows and 
 Childri'n of Officers not entitled to any Government pension. 
 
 Hy thu Proposed Scale ilie Widows ami Famiu(» of OFFirKRs of the following Ranks will receive as under : 
 
 RANK. 
 
 If Killed ill Actiuu. 
 
 If Drowneil, or liy other 
 ViolcLt Ueatli. 
 
 Nature of Allowance. 
 
 From Government 
 
 I Willows' 
 'Pcmion. 
 
 Captuin, Army 
 
 Cornspondinjj liaiik,/ ^iipptcnipntal froml 
 
 Navy 
 
 Patriotic Fund 
 
 Lieutenant, Army . | From Government . 
 
 Correspoiidiiig Itaiik,? Siipplenieiilal from) 
 Navy . . . J ! Patriotic Fund . f 
 
 Ensign, Army. . .j, From Government . 
 
 Correspomling Uank,f .Supplemental from) 
 N.ivy . ... I I'atriotic Fund , | 
 
 70 
 14 
 
 (iO 
 
 20 
 
 50 
 18 
 
 Assistant Engineers . 
 Gunners, Roat-swaiiis, 
 
 &c. 
 
 From Government 
 
 Supplemental froml 
 Patriotic Fund . | , 
 
 .35 
 15 
 
 lis 
 111 
 
 Total. 
 
 £ 
 
 48 
 
 32 
 
 £ 
 
 164 
 
 42 
 42 
 
 164 
 
 42 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 152 
 
 92 
 
 Willows' 2 1 ? 
 
 .a J^ a 
 Peiuion. '>' e*S 
 
 * B ° 
 
 Total. 
 
 £ 
 60 
 
 12 
 
 40 
 18 
 
 30 
 15 
 
 £ 
 36 
 
 24 
 
 132 
 
 30 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 130 
 
 87 
 
 Ordinary Death. 
 
 £ a . 
 
 Widows' 3 1 I 
 
 ». Sl| Total. 
 
 _ ^ 
 
 £ 
 50 
 
 10 
 
 40 
 10 
 
 £ 
 36 
 
 16 
 
 30 
 32 
 
 36 
 16 
 
 30 
 30 
 
 112 
 
 112 
 
 30 
 
 42 
 
 112 
 
 72 
 
 Note. 
 hushaiid h 
 
 . — If killed in action, a gratuity is granted by the Government to the Widow, equal to 
 held; and to each Orphan under the agcof 2i, one-third of the gratuity to the Widow. 
 
 one year'a full pay of the rank which htr 
 
 The Committee having regard to the restrictions of the lloyal Commission, 
 and the probable amoimt of the Fund, regret that thoy have not been enabled 
 to extend the proposed allowances higher than to the rank of a Captain in the 
 Array. They are aware that cases of great pressure may exist amongst some 
 of the higher ranks ; and it will aflbrd them pleasure if, in the result, the 
 amount of the Funds .should enable them to propose an extension of the scale, 
 after satisfying all prior obligations. 
 
 Your Committee have received valuable assistance from the able Reports 
 of two Sub-Committees. That of one composed of Lt.-Col. Adair, M.P., 
 W. G. Anderson, Esq., Treasury, R. C. Kirby, Esq., Chief Accountant, War 
 
idows 
 I, and 
 ioned 
 ; the 
 1 wilJ 
 fticer, 
 
 )OH0d, 
 
 prior 
 ltd is 
 s and 
 
 9 OS under :■ ' 
 
 iiiary Death. 
 
 Three Children 
 Cumpassionate 
 Alluwance. 
 
 Total. 
 
 £ 
 36 
 
 16 
 
 £ 
 112 
 
 112 
 
 112 
 
 30 
 32 
 
 30 
 30 
 
 
 42 ! 
 
 72 
 
 le muk which he 
 
 38ion, 
 al>led 
 n the 
 some 
 t, the 
 scale, 
 
 ports 
 
 M.P., 
 
 War 
 
 ( 25 ) 
 
 Office, led (with variations) to the adoption of the Scale of Allowances already 
 Huhmittud in your t'oniuiittt'c's Keport. 
 
 That of the second Snb-Committee, composed of the same gentlemen, with 
 Lt.-Col. the Hon. .James Lindsay, M.P., instead of Lt.-Col. Adair, M.P., in 
 reference to the estahiishment of jtaid ollicers, wliicli will be found in the 
 Appendices to our llejiort. 
 
 Which Report your Committee have confirmed and adojtted, and they beg 
 to recommend it for the approval of the Royal Commissioners ; and your Com- 
 mittee have filled up the jtlaces of Assistant Secretary and Naval Accountant, 
 by the appointment to both of Mr. W. II. Mugford, who has hitherto acted as 
 Naval Accountant only. 
 
 The following gentlemen having kindly con.sented to act as a Comiiiittee 
 of Preparatory Audit, viz. — 
 
 W. G. Anderson, Esq., Treasury. 
 
 Charles Macaulay, Esij., Secretary at the Audit Office. 
 
 R. C. Kirby, Esq., (!liief Accountant at the War OIKee. 
 
 Your Committee have accepted their services, and they have entered upon 
 their duties. 
 
 Your Committee beg to recommend that an amount, equal to the subscrip- 
 tions made in Canada, be invested in tlie purchase of Canadian G per cent. 
 Debentures. 
 
 Application has been made by your Conmiittee for the remission of 
 Postfigc, and a reply has been received, to the effect that Lord Canning was 
 unable to make any exception in lavour of any particular class of corres- 
 pondence. 
 
 Application has also been made for the remission of the Income Tax, 
 which is now under the consideration of the Treasury. 
 
 The Honorary Secretaries having disbursed, before the o})iuion of the 
 Royal Commissioners was known, a sum of £40 Us, 3d., in relief to certain 
 objects not provided for in the Provisional Scale, your Committee annex a state- 
 ment thereof in the Appendix, and recommend the sanction of the Royal 
 Commissioners for this exj)eiulitare. 
 
 Your Connnittee are gratified to be able to state that the Committee of 
 Lloyd's Patriotic Fmid have decided on granting Giatuities, to the amouTit 
 of £25,000, to relatives who depended for support on Officers and men in Her 
 Majesty's Service killed in action ; and also to those disabled from wounds 
 received in the present war. 
 
 Certain sums of money from abroad having been paid into this Fund, 
 portions have been claimed by the Central Association, and the Society for the 
 Relief of Widows, &c. of Seamen and Marines ; the papers are printed in the 
 
 E 2 
 
 A/^i'iidh ('.). 
 
 .lyV" '"/'•' (<■). 
 
 A/^p^wlU (■!). 
 
Afi'indir (i ). 
 
 ( 26 ) 
 
 Appendix, nnd the Committee beg to submit them to tlie consideration of the 
 Royal CoramiHsioncrs. 
 
 Applications having been made by Widows tor passages to Canada, 
 Australia, and other places, the Committee submit the same to the Royal 
 rommissioncrs. 
 
 ST. LEONARDS, 
 
 Chairman, 
 
f the 
 
 Hilda, 
 loyal 
 
 ( 27 ) 
 
 ■1, ■• ■! 
 
 Appendix to First Report to the Royal Commissioners of the Executive 
 and Finance Committee. 
 
 'I'lie following Statements and Papers will further explain the state of the 
 Fund and the Proct-edings and Inquiries of tlie Committee, viz. : — 
 
 Financial ritatemeut as to the Sums received, and particulars of invest- 
 ment ; the Income arising therefrom ; the Sums expended, in which is shown 
 the Numbei-s receiving llelief; and an Estimate of Liabilities founded upon 
 the only data at present available. 
 
 Af)jittiilij' (.i). 
 
IT 
 
 ( 28 ) 
 
 AppmduE (a) to Fii,st Report of EireciUive Committee. 
 
 EsTiMATK of tho present iind pnibablo IvooME of the I'atkiotic KirNp. 
 
 t.'{20,0(t(» KxcluMiiKT Hills, at 2\d. per cent, per diuin 
 KinO.OOO Excliecpier Uonds, lit .'Ji per cent, per annum . 
 €80,000 On Loan to the Great Western Railway Company, 
 at IJ per cent, per aninnn ..... 
 £40,000 On Loan to tlie Nortli-Kastem Railway Company. 
 
 at 43 per cent, per annum 
 
 t80,000 On Loan to the London and Nortli-Western Railway 
 Company, at 4J per cent, per annum . 
 
 Present Income 
 
 -.V'' V 
 
 , 'V 
 
 €. X. il. 
 
 io,!ir)0 
 
 .'»,2r»o (t 
 
 H,800 
 
 1 ,fl00 
 
 ;i,Goo 
 
 £2f),500 
 
 Subscriptions known to be collected at Glasgow and 
 Leeds, not yet paid into tlio Bank of England, 
 and other Sums paid in but not yet realised — 
 
 1^100.000 whicli at 4i per cent, woidd give . . . . 
 and which it is proposed, should be lent to the 
 London and Jkightou Railway Company, and the 
 St. Catherine's Dock Company, and invested in 
 Canada G per cent. Bonds. i 
 
 4,r)00 
 
 Probable Income 
 
 £30,000 
 
 It is proposed to invest upon temporary, but solid 
 Secm-ities, bearing a higher interest, portions of 
 tlie Funds now producing a low rate of interest. 
 
( 20 ) 
 
 Appendiv («) ta First Report of Erecufive Committee, 
 
 Khtimatk ot'tliu proHont iiiul i)r(ilnvl)lu Kxi'iivDirruK ot'tlic Patriotic Frxn. 
 PavmL'iits Ijt'twt'i'U IGtli Octulior, 18') t, iitul tliiH date, viz. : — 
 
 SiiIarioH 
 
 MisCulluiR'DUH Piiyillt'IltH . 
 
 Pnvnu'iits to 700 Willows nnd l,(»2r) Cliildmi 
 
 t. .V. (/. 
 
 '2(i!t 13 10 
 177 17 11 
 
 t ■". rl. 
 
 147 11 it 
 1,031 ft 7 
 
 i:i,482 1 4 
 
 To wliich inuHt l)0 adtlcd tliu oliaif^o tor Advertisements, which 
 
 will Kooii cease altogether 1,340 "» (1 
 
 Making the total expended . . £2,822 10 
 
 To which will have to lie added, Suiiih, for wliich the Patriotic 
 Fund may have to provide, for the support of Widows, 
 from Ist Janiuiry, when the Central Association ceased to 
 provide for them, the amount of which cannot at present 
 be ascertained, but it will not exceed .t300 or £400. 
 
 PmfiMc Kipenditure. 
 Since the Estimate contained in the Report was made, 1,400 deaths are 
 recorded (making 10,400 in all), from whicli is assumed that there are 
 now 2,000 Widows, and 3,400 Ciiildren. 
 
 £. .<!. d. 
 
 2,000 Widows, at £!) 10s. per ainuim 19,000 
 
 3,400 Children, at £G per annum . . . • • • 30,400 
 
 l*er Centage upon these payments (24 per cent.) . . 985 
 
 Office Exi)euse8 1»500 
 
 Oflicers' Widows (for the present) ^.000 ^ 
 
 €42,885 
 
( 30 ) 
 
 Appciidir (/)) to First Report of Krecufive Committi'e. 
 
 Thk (lUOHtioiifl reforrod to tlio Sub-Conimittt'o for invoHtigntion ftml report, at 
 the loiit inucting of tho Finance Committee, were — 
 
 i. Tho eRtAbliHhmcnt of OflicerH and Clerks required for conducting the 
 official huHJneiui of the CommiKnion, and the Hcale of their remunerati(»n. 
 
 2. Tho chcckH cstabliHhed for the Hectirity of the funds of the ComniiN- 
 siou, tho diHtribution of them, and the NuflRciency of the voucherH upon which 
 'rants are made, and of the Accounts required to exiiibit the j)ecuiiiarv trans- 
 ictions of tho Comraiosion. 
 
 In tho present Report we propose to confine our remarks to the first of 
 hose subjects. 
 
 Tho paid Officers, created since tho first appointment of tho Commission, 
 
 are — 
 
 £. 
 
 1 Assistant-Secretary, at .... 300 a-year. 
 
 1 Accountant, at 50 , , 
 
 (In addition to liis salary of £150 a-year from the puhlic.) 
 
 2 Assistant- Accountants, at .... 1 GO a-year each. 
 
 Extra salary to one of them, as ('lork to the Finance 
 Committee, £40 a-year. 
 1 Clerk, at l.'tO a-ytar. 
 
 1 Clerk, at 1^0 ,, 
 
 2 Assistant-Clerks, and 2 Extra Clerks, at Sli*. 
 
 per week each. 
 
 1 Oflico Keeper, at ^^ , » 
 
 1 Messenger, at X31, and one at X20 Iti.v. . , £[,1 lHj,.. a-year. 
 
 The duties of these Officers may he briefly described as follows : — 
 
 The Assistant-Secretary opens and distriliutes the letters received, re- 
 cords all remittances enclosed in letters, takes charge of all contributions paid 
 in at the Office till they are paid ovtr to the Accountant, and prepares re- 
 ceipts for them for the signature of one of the Honorary Secretaries; answers 
 letters of inquiry, and attejids to other minor duties. This office is at present 
 vacant, and the duties are conducted by the Assistant Accountant — Naval 
 Hranch — who jierforms, in additi(jn, the duties of corresponding with naval 
 claimants, of regulating the grant of relief to tiiis class, according to the 
 established scale, in some cases by remittances in gross to |)ersons in the 
 country for distribution, in others by separate remittances tp tlie claimants 
 tliomselves, or by payments at the Office in cash. lie records those payments 
 in his " Day-Book," and examines the lists and vouchers returned to him 
 fiom the country after jKiyment. IIo debits all such jjayments for relief to 
 the personal accounts of the AVi(low.>j, in an Abstract Book, kept for that 
 purpose. lie prepares and tninsmits the Warrants for Grants to Widows, 
 supplies the Staff Officers, or other poisons employed for the payment of the 
 
( :m ) 
 
 Willows, witli tlic l)<H( ri|>tiiiii l'u|ic'rH n;(|iiiiT(l foi the iiUiiilifuiitidU uf rluiin- 
 aiitN, iiiul jKi'luniiH tillii r iiiiitiiic ilutii'H, 
 
 111- Im HHMiHlid li} a Clirk in llu- perroriimiHi' (if tlaw; clutirH. 
 
 Assi.sttiiit-Aceountunt, Arm;/ /irnnch.'-'VW tliiticH f)f thin OlViccr are 
 similar to lliosc jiisl (Icsciilnd, ittitl lit' is also assisted bv iv Clerk in (lie per- 
 ronimiRV of tlic'in. IK- m;ts, nuiitiiver, uh Cltrk to tin; Finance Comiaittuu. 
 
 Tlie Afconntiint collcctM all contiilnitiniis nniitfcd to the (MYicc in IcttorH 
 nr niiid in at tlic ()lli<c in casli, ami pays the same, tlirouf^h tlie Paynmster. 
 Uemnil, to tlu' Patriotic Knml Acconiit at the Hank of Knfjflimd. He enterH 
 the t'ontrihntioiiH received, either from the lettorH of ntlvicc, or from tho 
 counterfoilH of receipts, ami tracen tho receipt of the money to the Hank of 
 iMi'-laml l*ass-l?o{)k. lie prepares the Advertisement LiHts for the Newspa- 
 pers, and keeps the general atronnts of the Funds of the Commission. IIo 
 has also a Clerk to assist him in the performance of these duties. 
 
 (7/(.,.|,s.__'|'hree Cleiks nre employeil, as we liave already stat((d, in 
 assistin" the Aceouutajit and the two Assistant Accountants. The fourth is 
 emploved in keepinjr the r.f^'ister of freueral correspondonco, in docketing 
 letters received, and in copying letters sent from the olHco. 
 
 E.itm Chris. One of these is employeil on the temporary dntv of 
 alistraetinj; the donations nceived in an alphabetical register, and the other 
 in fdling up forms of acknowledgment of money reuiitted, and in assisting 
 in the entry of letters and other routint! work. 
 
 The time has nut arrived when a fuial distribution of these duties can be 
 made ; the duties connected with tiie receipt of money, which have hitherto 
 formed the largest portion of the business, arc rapidly decreasing, whilst 
 those connected with the grant of allowances and the payment of them, 
 which have hitherto been light, are increasing daily; these again will 
 hereafter lie reduced when the grants shall have been completed, and the 
 system of paying, on permanent orders, through the Stafl-Otlicers of Pen- 
 sio.. rs, shall have been brought into full operation. But although the 
 ollice-dnties are in a transition state, and the establishment which we are 
 about to reconunend must couHOi|uently be considered a iirovisional one, we 
 see no ditlicultv in laying down the prineiiile upon which the permanent 
 Stafl' should be prospectively organized. 
 
 The oilice of" Assistant Secretaiy," at oOO/. a-year is now vacant. We 
 recommend that one of the Assistant Accountants be promoted to it, at a 
 reduced salary of I^M. ; and as the duties of the office have diminished, 
 owin" to the contributions having nearly ceased, wc consider that he may 
 perform the duties of botli ollices, by which the salary of 1(J0/. a-year, which 
 he now receives as Assistant Accountant, may be wholly saved. 
 
 The second " Assistant Accoinitaiit," whose title we propose to alter to 
 that of "Principal Clerk," should contiime to perform his present duties, 
 including those which devolve upon him as Clerk to the Finance Committee. 
 
 g ggj i -AveK W JD V^fv--,--- 
 
( ;w ) 
 
 Wi> Hi'c 11(1 ri<i\M()M lor ii'ooinnu'iiiliiiff any clnnififi' in hin Muliuy of 200/. u-yrui', 
 iiK-liidiiig It)/. iiH Clerk U) tlii> Kinuiu'c <'i)iuiiiiUt.'i-. 
 
 Tlio " Accouiitiitit" IidIiIh li C'li'rkNlii|) in tliu (Icncrnl Ui'j^iHtrr Uftin , 
 \vli<rc he ntrivcM a Hiiliiry of l.'»(»/. a-yi'iir; llu' alluwuncf paid to liiin I'roin 
 tho fuutlH of tlif Connninnion in only ^){)l. a-yoar. {'oMMidi'rinjf tlu' cirrnrn- 
 Mttmcca under wliifh tin- wwici'M of Mr. Hancock were ()lit4tint<d, we tliink 
 Ttt)/. a-year ih too miiall a niuuneration fur tlient. Wlien the ConiniiHMion 
 wan first cHtaliliMlied, it was conHidcrcil of j^rcat. ini|)ortance to wcnre the 
 HerviceM of Honie gentleman wIioho character and (|iialificationH wero well 
 known, in whoHo integrity entire confidence couM U^ placed, and wIiohc 
 appointment, untler the (lovernnient, would ntand, in wjino nteiwure, in 
 lien of (ururity for tlu! faithful diMcharge of a coiiHiderable pecuniary truHt. 
 'i'licMe oonmderationH led to the Heleolion of Mr. Hancock for the mtuation of 
 Accountant. In fixing the ntte of IiIh reniunerution, it may he pro|>er uIho 
 to hear in mind, that a Clerk removed for ti lengtheneil periiMl from the 
 duties of luH own department, in ex(H)H(.'d to the rink of cerUiin dituulvantngeH 
 during Inn abMcnce. We are therefore of opinion, that 100/. a-year will Im- a 
 renHonablu ruto of extra pay to the Accountunt. At tho wimu timo we 
 recommend that tluH ap[)ointment Nhould not bu continued buyond the time 
 when the regulatioim of the otlice may come into full operation, and the 
 BVHtem of conducting the businewn and of keeping the account** may bo com- 
 pletely cHtablislu'd ; Mr. Hancock's dutien may then be performed by the 
 other memburH of the permanent CHtalilishmeut, and he may return to Iuh 
 dutieH in tho General Register OiKce. 
 
 With rcHpect to the two ClerkH at Annual Saljirien of l.'iO/. and 130/., 
 wo recommend that one of these sliouhl be dispi-nsed with ; the Clerk at 
 l.'iO/. a-year tudy performs the duties of a Copying ('lerk, which can be 
 executed for a much lower rate of pay, and wi- cannot recommend that his 
 Bervices be continued. 
 
 We do Jiot recouiineiid any change in the rates of pay of the Assistant 
 Clerks and of the tmiporary Clerks; the latter should be discharged as soon 
 as their services can safely be dispensed with. The two Assist. irit Clerks 
 will be reipnred as Assistants to the AssiMicit i^ecretary ami to the Principal 
 Clerk. 
 
 We reconunend that whenever a Clerkship may fall vacant, it may not 
 be filled up, but that Messrs. Vacher and Son, the Law Stationers, in Par- 
 liament Street, who suj)ply Copying Clerks to the Hoard of Trade and other 
 oiKces, at about (is. a-<lay each, may be api)lied to for the aHsistance which may 
 be recjuired, from time to time, whenever a pressure may arise. The objection 
 to keeping up a pennanont stalT of Clerks for a varying and routine business 
 is, that they cannot be dispfjused with when the pressure has ceased, or if 
 dispensed with, they cannot be recalled into employment when the pressure 
 revives. The employment of Law Stationers' Clerks, when actually reipiired, 
 will secure efficient assistance at the cheapest rate. 
 
 There is an Oflice Keeper at CO/, a-year, and there are also two Mes- 
 sengers, one at '.i\L a-year, and another at 8.9. a-week, or 20/. 10s. a-year. 
 
I 
 
 ( .'«••» ) 
 
 Wo ill) dot Hoo flic McrtWty of iinployiiij^ iiiorn limn two pcrttoriH nf iIu'h 
 iIukh; (ttic of tli(. McHMciiffciN riiiiy llM'n-ltirt) ltc> iliHcdtitirincij, The ivniiU nf 
 our n'oonuiu'riilntiotiH in — 
 
 iNt. Tlint tlic' p«'iMmrn'»it Htnff hIkmiM Ik- cdnfiiu'il U) llmi' 
 piTHoiiM, thr AHHiHtaiit Scontiiiy at 2r»0/., die Priiiciiml Cliik iit '20(»/., 
 incliiilinj; •(>/. iiMCItik to tlic l-'iimnoc Corniiiittti', iiiid mv KHtahliMlifil 
 Cloik at l.'IO/., wifli hikIi fiirtlicr nNHiHtaiict! from i\w Law StatiotHiw 
 OH tim Iloiiomiy SrcnfaiiiH may, from tiiiio to time, fiiitl alinoluftly 
 n'<|iiiHite, 
 
 2ii(l. Tliiit tlio allowanco to tlio Aemiuitaiit hIiomM I>o laiwd fr» 
 100/, u-yt'iir, ami tliat iilfer llu; expiration of one year from the 
 present time, the Kinanco Committee mIioiiKI take into eoTiHideration 
 the queHtion of (linpenNinf; with hin HervinoH, nml apportionin^f IiIn 
 JtitioH amonfif the permanent Staff of the f>llieo. 
 
 •Ird. That tlu? fnllowin;; oIUcch Mhonid ho aholiHhed oh noon nH the 
 neeesHary arrnngementH ean l)o made for diHpenmng with tlnir ner- 
 vieeH ; — 
 
 £. s, 
 I AKsistait Accountant at . . l(!0 
 
 I Clerk at If.O 
 
 1 MeHHenfjrer at . . . . 20 16 
 
 4th. That the HervicoH of tlio temporary Clerks Nhonld lie diw- 
 continued ho hooii hn the buMinesH for which they arc now Hpeeially 
 retained whall have heen eomph ted. 
 
 The second point suimiitted to the suh-Committeo rerpiires more time 
 than will admit of a Ileport heinj:; made on the snhjcct at the present. 
 
 JAS. LINDSAY. 
 W. O. ANDIOUSOX. 
 R. C. KIllBV. 
 
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( 34 ) 
 
 A ji/nntdii- {c) to Firtit Report of Edicutive Committee. ' ' 
 
 SfATtMKM of Sums Disuihhkii bv tin- Il4)Nt>KAHV Sei'Hetakii:8, as Uklikf, in ca*«< not 
 iiicluclcil ill flie Phovisioxal Scalk, iH'forc the opinion of tho ItovAL Commissionehh had 
 htiii (il>taiii«i— for vtliich the Aim-ko\ AL if llie lioyAL Commissionebs i« miuealtsil, to sali.sfy 
 
 lllf Al IMTOHS. 
 
 Tx whniil (tivtMl. 
 
 IteliUiou 
 
 til 
 I)i'oeu««l, 
 
 Name, Jtc. of the Dcrtiisecl. 
 
 Man liruuii 
 
 (.'alhcriiic Xli)iguii 
 
 Kliuibelli Ciillcn 
 ('aniliiif Ansc'iiiiili 
 
 Mollifi /•'"'*l''' Hrawn, waman, II. M.S. • Arttlmsa.') 
 
 • killi'tl ill ni-tioii ' 
 
 Alolhfi C^''"'"'- Alort^a". swiniiiii, II. M.S. ' Afliion.'i 
 
 I died of oliolvra / 
 
 Sister ,("""'• Ccillcn. sfaiimii, II. M.S. • Siiiis|iur«'il.M 
 
 ' ^ " ■ ^ kilKil ill union / 
 
 Willow . .lunu-s Aii.<4.'()iiib, tircniaii, ' Prim-u,' transport 
 
 ■"2 Widows and 2 Mothirs of Officers 
 
 Widow of a Master of ti Transport 
 
 Aiiioiiiit 
 
 DiBliiirtvil. 
 
 £. 
 
 •V. 
 
 </. 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 « 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 () 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 (> 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 ri 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 () 
 
 49 
 
 ,'r I!km\i;k!<— 111 jfvvM ti-mpoiary ilistross— imt liminp ruwivcd residue of husband's pay, am) having tu 
 
 wait fi)r pi'iisioii. 
 
( 3ft ) 
 
 
 
 Ajij/iudic ((/) to First Report of Executive Committee, 
 
 Vowiiiiii/ Street, 2'liid December, 1854. 
 Sin, 
 
 1 AM (liructud l)y Si-crotaiv Sir Uoorp^e Grey t(i liaiiRiiiit to von, to be 
 laiil hc'foro tlif ('oiiiinissioners for tlic Patriotic Fund, the cnclowd copy f>l" a ^ 
 Ucspatcli from tlic Liciitciiaiit-riovcnior of Van Dicraen's Land, forwnrdiiifr , 
 a receipt from the Deputy Commissary -runeral in that Colony, for the snm 'li 
 of Two Tlion8i\nd Pounds, whieli liad been paid into the Military Chest, beinj; 
 tlie amount of a contribution received tlironj^^li the Mayor of Tlobart Town. ^'■ 
 and intended for Uelief of the Wives and Ohihhen of jH-rsons serving in the 
 Britisli Army and Khrts in the War with Russia. 
 
 Sir George Grey has reijucsted tlie Lords of tiie Tieasury to give the 
 necessary instructions for the payment of tlie amount to the Commissioners 
 for tiic Patriotic Fund. Sir William Denison, in his Despatch, expresses a 
 hope that the whole sum may be handed over by their Lordshijts without the 
 charge of any premium, and Sir George (hey has recommended a compliance 
 with that application. 
 
 1 am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 Hickman Meiuvale. 
 
 The Secretary tn the Commission 
 for the Patriotic Fumh 
 
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 r.lli S<|il.. I^.■l1. 
 
 11 i|it SI lit ti' 
 rii-nrv. 
 
 (Copy.) 
 
 SiK, 
 
 Van Diemens Land, Government House, 
 September 15, 1854. 
 
 I have the honour to forward herewith, a copy of a letter addressed to 
 me by the Mayor of Ilobart Town, enclosing a sum of Two Thonsatid Pounds, 
 which has been collected from various sources, as detailed in the letter, for the 
 pin|H)8e of relieving the wives and children of jjcrsons engaged in tlu' present 
 War. 
 
 I have paid the amount into the Military Chest, and enclose the proper 
 receipt from the Deputy Conunissary-General for the same. 
 
 I trust that no premium will be charged on the amount by the Treasury, 
 and that the whole snm will lie handed over to the persons upon whom the 
 responsibility of admini.stering this relief is imposed, as an offering from this 
 small and remote colony, evincing the interest t.-iken by the people in the success 
 of the AVar in which we are engaged, and their sympathy for those who may 
 
 suffer in our defence. 
 
 1 have, &c., 
 
 (Signed) W. Denisos. 
 
 Nil. 1. 
 Mililniv. 
 
( 36 ) 
 
 Appewlir {e) to First Report of Evccutire Committ*-,'. 
 
 ., Falkirk Afame, ^t!i Jamuxru, m)'K 
 
 I SKVD you an application for aid on belialf of Widow XI'lMnrson, 
 whose huHband, i,l tor 17 years' service in the 42nd Regiment, died of cholera 
 before Sebastopol, on the Ist of October last. 
 
 She has four young children, and is unable to provide for them. 
 
 What Mrs. M'Pherson is anxious for, is, to obtain the means to get out to 
 America, where she has relations, who have promised to look after lier and the 
 children, and if you would be so good as furnish such from the Patriotic Ftmd, 
 you would greatly oblige. 
 
 I am. Gentlemen, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 WiT.uAM Beg<;, 
 
 Honorary Secretaries of the Patriotic Fund. 
 
 
 ^,„ Wiitehall Place, tAhruary (i, 18.55. 
 
 I HAVE the honor to request you w'll lay before the Finance Connnitte.- 
 of the Royal Commissioners, the case of Ann Kean, widow, now in receipt of 
 3.«. 6(/. a week. 
 
 She is anxious to emigrate to Australia, where .she has friends, an.l 1). .rs 
 that she may receive some assistance for outfit for that purpose. 
 
 I have the honor to Ix;, 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 J. H. Crichtox Stiaht, 
 
 Lieut. -Capt. Grenailier Guards. 
 The Honorary Si'cretary. 
 
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 Appendix D 2. 
 
 SECOND REPORT 
 
 OF 
 
 THE EXECUTIVE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE 
 
 TO 
 
 THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 YorR CoMMTTTKK haviiijr mot several times since they had the liononr of 
 reporting to the Royal Conimi.ssioners, beg to lay before them a Report of tlicir 
 further proceedings. The Sub-Committee, composed of 
 
 Colonel the lion J. Lindsay, M.P., 
 W. (j, Andkkpon, Esq., 
 R. C. KiKiiY, Esq., 
 
 have made the following Report on the subject of the security of the Funds, of tlie 
 modes of Receipt and Payment of Moneys, and sufficicTicy of the Accounts kept 
 for recording the pecuniary transactions, as well as on the sufficiency of tlie 
 Checks upon Grants to Widows and Orphans, which Report your Committee 
 have confirmed and adopted, and now beg to reconunend for the adoption of 
 the Royal Commissioners. 
 
 SECOND REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE. 
 
 In our first Report we confined our remarks to the establishment of paid officers 
 and clerks required for conducting the official business of the Royal Commission ; 
 in the j>resent Report we jtroi^se to deal with the second subject of inquiry 
 referred to us, namely, " The eliecks established for t)ie security of the funds of 
 " the ('ommission, the distribution of them, and the sufficiency of the vouchers 
 " upon which grants are made, and of the accounts required to exiiibit tlie 
 " pecuniary transactions of the Conunission." 
 
 1st. As to the security of the funds : — By the Royal Proclamation the 
 Paymaster-General is constituted the treasurer of the fund, and all moneys are 
 paid to a distinct account ojtened in his name at the Rank of England. The 
 larger portion of the cntributions received have been paid directly to that 
 account without pa.s8ing through the hands of any officer of the (\)nunission. 
 We have inquired into the regidations under which these moneys are received 
 and issued by the Paymaster-General, and we are satisfied that the security of 
 
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 till' Italanct' at tlii> orodit of liis account at tlic l?aiik of Kiiffland is comiilctc 
 All issues liy the rayinastcr-CMiu lal on account of tlic Patriotic Fund arc 
 made, in the tirst instance, out of tlie |iul>iic money in his liands, and at the 
 close of ( ach day a transfer is made from the Patriotic Fund account to that of 
 the jmlilic at the IJaidv of Knfi'land, to re|(lace such issues. The Assistant 
 l*.iymaster-(}eneral holds a deputation from the I'ayniaster-CJeneral to enahlc 
 liini to make these transf rs, hut it contains no authority to draw cheques or 
 hi!.s on the Patriotic Fund account, which can therefore only be operated on by 
 " writes oiV," or direct transfers, to the public account. 
 
 The seenrllits belonp^iiif^ to the fund, such as Kxche<iuer Hills, IJonds, 
 iiailway lU'luiituns, t^-c, are held by the Hank of Fngland in the joint names 
 of the I';iyma>tk r-(!enrral and the Honorary Secretary, and their joint signa- 
 tufis are nipiired to every order for the sale or disp()sj\l of them. 
 
 The subscri]ai(ms ri.e..ived at the ollicoof the Royal Commission are cither 
 paid by subscribers intt the hands of the Assistant Secretary, or they are 
 remitted in letters addre r ' i the Honorary Secretaries. These letters are 
 opi'ued in th'^ preser.ci' of t\\ sons and the remittances are entered by the 
 
 Assistant Sicretary in a day-liook kept foi' that purpose. Acknowledgements 
 are given to all piisons who pay money at the office, or they are transmitted 
 jiy ]post to those persons who may have I'cmitted their subscriptioiis in letters. 
 The counterfoils of thest; acknowledgments are kept as vcmchers to be i)re>duced 
 to the .\u<lilois. At tin close of lacii day tiie Accountant takc.-s charge of the 
 moneys received during the day and pays them to the proper officer in the 
 Paymaster-rieiierars office for transmission to the I'aidv of England. The 
 Assistant Seci'etary makes up a daily account of the receijits at the office ; the 
 Accountant also makes up an account of the same receipts from the letters of 
 ndvice and from the drafts and casli transferred to him by the Assistant 
 Secretary ; he subseijuently notes against each sum, in his journal of Office 
 Kcciipts, the number of tlie Paymaster-Generara list, prepared from the Hank 
 Pass I'ook, in which tiie same is brought to account. 
 
 It is I \ ident tliat tlie eilieacy of the check upon this portion of the suli- 
 seriptioi's d jk iids wholly on the regidiU'ity olisirved in giving acknowledg- 
 ments for all sums paid or remitted to the office ; if this regulation is duly 
 I II forced, the check is, in our ojiinion, as complete as the circumstances of the 
 case admit of. 
 
 2nd. As to Pmjmintx from the Fund. — Adv.ances are made from time to 
 time by the Payniiister-General to the Tlonorary Secretary, who keeps an 
 areount for the Patriotic Fund at Messrs. Drummoad's ; from this account 
 advai:e.sare made to tlie A>sistant Secretary, who remits money to the country, 
 either to persons intrusted with the distrilmtion of reil'd", or directly to the 
 Clainiftnts entitled to it. We recommend that the payments should, as far as 
 practicable (and far more generally than at ])resent), be mad" through the 
 Paymaster-General; this arrang'ement will relieve the llonoraiy Secretary, 
 as well as those who distribute money under his direction, from imnecessary 
 ri>k and responsibility. 
 
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 3rd. As to the mffic'wncy of the Checks upon Grants to Widows and Orphans. 
 — In rofi^ard to tlic Vdiicliors upon which (Jiants aio made, wo consider that 
 some alteration is dcNirahK-. The Marriage ('ertificate of tiie Widow, and the 
 ( 'crtificateH of Mirth or |{ai)tisui of tiie Ohihlren, are not at present in all cases 
 produced at the Oflice ; it appe.-irs to us most essential that every application 
 from a Widow for relief should l»e accompanied by a Certificate of her Marriage 
 with the Soldier or Sailor upon whose death she founds her claim to an allow- 
 ance, and hy Certificates of the Birth or iJaptism of the Children on whose 
 behalf she may apj)ly foi' relief. If the ('hildren should bo Orphans on both 
 sides, the Apjdicant on their liehalf should furnish both Certificates of their 
 liirth or Baptism and of the Marriage of their Parents. 
 
 In regard to Soldiers' Marriages, tlie cases are Jiot unfrequcnt in which 
 the Wife has Children by a previous Marriage ; and occasionally Illegitimate 
 Children, either of the Husband or Wife, live with the Soldier aiid his Wife, 
 and pass by the Soldier's name ; the possession of the correct dates of the 
 Soldier's Marriage and of the birth of all the Children, is therefore indis- 
 pensable. 
 
 If a dilliculty should arise in any case in procuring the proper Certificates, 
 it muat be stated to the Honorary Secretaries, and such steps taken as shall 
 appear requisite to remove the difiiculty, or to admit secondary evidence, ac- 
 cording to circumstances. In granting Allowances from the Fund, which are 
 likely to endure, every care should be taken to examine as closely as possible 
 the Certificates by which the claims are supported, to ascertain that they are 
 genuine and free from alteration or erasure, and to subject all doubtful cases to 
 special investigation. 
 
 4th. As to the Safficieiici/ of the Accounts kept for recording the Pecuniary 
 Transactions of the Commission. — \Vt' have examined the various Books in 
 which the Receipts and Payments are entered, and they appear to us to be 
 well adapted to the pro ler record of the simple transactions which they 
 embrace. We have suggested some slight alterations in them, which appeared 
 to us to be required to render them more complete. We consider that the 
 Books in which the Accounts with the several Pensioners are opened, may be 
 improved ; and that it would be advantageous to adopt the forms of Pension 
 Books used in the Paymaster-General's OtKce for similar payments 
 
 J. LINDSAY. 
 R. C. KIRBY. 
 February liith, 1855. W. G. ANDERSON. 
 
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 The ronunittoe of Preparatory Audit, snnctioued by tho Royal Comniis- 
 Bioncrs, composcJ of 
 
 W. G. AvnKiisof, EHq., 
 CiiAHi.Ks Macaulay, Ewq., 
 H. C. KlItltY, Ksq., 
 
 Imvo inado coiiHiik'rablo profrrcss in tlifir lalMmrs, and will at no distant period 
 bring their examination up to tlie lateHt date, when they will report the method 
 they have adopted in the proceNS. The Commission requires that the final 
 andit sliall Ih) by one or more nf *\\^i Royal C'ommisHioners. 
 
 Your Cfimmittee are f;;liid to be able to report, that their scheme of having 
 Local Committees of Ladies t<> watch over the welfare of the Widows and 
 ( )rphaiiH, has been attended with tlie happiest results in Glasgow and Aberdeen, 
 and tliey do not doubt that it will be equally successfid in the other localities. 
 The Ladies' Committees of the Grenadier and Scots Fusilier Guards, have 
 continued to give their kind and ellicient aid to the Widows and Orphans of 
 whom they took charge. 
 
 Orphans who have lost both parents, and who hiive no natural guardians 
 to whom they can properly be intrusted, have been placed by your Committee 
 in temporary asylums under tlio care of clergymen ; but in all cases the wishes 
 and feelings of the natural suiviving guardians, or the known wishes of the 
 deceased parents, have been respected. 
 
 Yonr Committee have, in many instances, relieved Widows with families, 
 by taking charge of the children where the Widows were willing to go to 
 service, or by taking charge of some of the children, so as to render the Widow 
 ea])able of maintaining herself and the other children, in which cases, of course, 
 the allowances, with any necessary additions, are regulated accordingly. 
 
 Your Committee, in exercise of the authority delegjvted to them by you, 
 have to a limited extent, relieved the Widows and Orphans of several Officers 
 of the following ranks, viz., 2 Surgeons, 2 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 4 Quarter- 
 masters, 1 Connuissariat Clerk, 3 Engineers, and G Naval Warrant-Officers, 
 who all stood greatly in need of aid. 
 
 Your Committee have also exercised the power with which they were 
 intrusted, of administering relief l)cyoud the general scale, in several cases of 
 sickness, and of the lying-in of Widows. 
 
 Several Widows have already married again, and thus ceased to be objects 
 for whom the Patriotic Fund was subscribed. But the numbers applying for 
 relief are continually on the increase; latterly, the average number of Appli- 
 cants is 73 a-week. The number of Widows now receiving relief is 1,2PJ, and 
 the number of Orphans is 1,41)7, of whom 25 have lost both parents. We 
 subjoin a list of the names of the localities where the Widows and Orphans are 
 resident. 
 
( 41 ) 
 
 Your Committeo Imvc, in some caw's, aHHiHtod WidowH to move to tlielr own 
 iniiiHlios, wliert! tlicy wcro known, and could nioro readily obtain work, and in 
 otiicr oases, to move into more respectable neifflibouriioods, witli a view to 
 benefit tliem and their children. 
 
 They have also paid the expenses of funerals, both of Widows and 
 Orphans, and in a few eases have paiil for medical attendance. 
 
 Your Committee iire desirous of takiujjf this op|)ortniiity of recording their 
 wnse of their oldigatious to those Stalf Ollici ih of JVn.^ioners and other gentle- 
 men, who arc so kindly and elliciently a.^.si.stiiig them in the distriiuition of 
 the Fund. 
 
 Your Committee have much pleasure in Reporting that through the 
 instrumentality of tlie Committee of Amateur Artists, 121 Pall Mall, a sum 
 of money, as the first instalment, has been placed at their disposal for immediate 
 distriiiution amongst the Widows atid Ori)hans of all classes of Olh'cers. To 
 these Gentlemen your Connnittee beg to ofl'er tliuii acknowledgments — and 
 have to Kejiort that the money has already been applied in the relief of several 
 pressing claims. 
 
 Your Committee have to report, that Subscriptions still continue to l)e 
 received at the rate of X 1 0,000 a-wcek ; latterly a large projwrtion of this 
 has been from Calcutta and Hombay. 
 
 Your Committee have much pleasure in drawing attention to the muni- 
 ficent subscription of an illustrious individual, His Highness 11 Hameh Pacha. 
 
 Your Committee beg to present the following analysis, which has been 
 transmitted to them by the (.Jlasgow Committee, of the large sum sid)scribed l>\- 
 the City of Glasgow. It affords a fair illustration of tlie manner in which 
 all classes have subscribed to the Patriotic Fund : — 
 
 AiiaruACT of Ci.aspifioatiox of Sntst'uinr:ns to the Patriotic Fixd in 
 
 Gl.ASOOW. 
 
 1. Incorporations and Public Bodies, viz. — 
 
 (I.) CorjHiration of (Jlasgow . 
 
 (2.) Trades' House and Incorporated 
 
 Trades 
 
 (.'{.) Merchants' lioust .... 
 (4.) Legal I''aculty ot Procurators . 
 (5.) Medical Factdty .... 
 ((».) Stock Exchange .... 
 
 (7.) (Jaclic Club 
 
 (8.) Miscellaneous 
 
 2. Local Joint Stock Banks .... 
 
 Carried forward . 
 
 f. .<;. d. 
 
 500 
 
 2,04.') 
 
 200 
 
 lor) 
 
 105 
 
 ior» 
 
 100 
 
 :j7o 
 
 ,€. 
 
 3,530 II 
 1,000 
 
 £4,530 
 Q2 
 
( "ta ) 
 
 Brouglit forward 
 ■'J. Mercantile OlftSH, viz. — 
 
 (1.) MorclmtitH, including CoinmiHHion 
 MtTcliantH and AgontH . 
 
 (2.) MamifacturorH, inchuliiig Calico 
 
 PrintcTH ..... 
 
 {'i.) Wareliouseinen .... 
 
 (4.) Drpaltcrs 
 
 £. s. d. £. s. d. 
 . 4,530 
 
 0,871 17 6 
 
 4. Iron-masters, Iron-inerchant.'<, and (Joal- 
 niasterH . . . . . 
 
 fi. (1.) Engiiipors, Millwrights, and Sliip- 
 
 buildors 
 
 (2.) Iron and Brass Founders . 
 
 6. Trade Class, viz. — 
 
 (I.) Bleachers and Dyers 
 
 (2.) Publishers, Booksellers, and Sta 
 
 tioners 
 
 (3.) Brewers, Distillers, and Malsters 
 (4.) Innkeepers, Si)irit Dealers, and Vio 
 
 tuallers .... 
 
 (•'"'•) Wrights, Upholsterers, and Cabinet 
 
 makers .... 
 
 (6.) Builders, Plasterers, Brickmakers, &c 
 
 (7.) Bakers 
 
 (8.) Butchers ..... 
 (0.) Clothiers and Tailors 
 (10.) Boot and Shoe Makers . 
 (11.) Painters, Paperhangers, and Glaziers 
 (12.) Smiths and Bellhangers . 
 (1,3.) AVatchmakers and Jewellers. . 
 (14.) Letter-press Printers, Lithographers 
 
 and Bookbinders . 
 (lo.) Coach-builders, Postma-sters, and Li 
 
 verymen ... . . 
 (16.) Calenderers and Packers . 
 (17.) Apothecaries and Dr .ggists 
 (18.) Auctioneers .... 
 (19.) Seedsmen and Nurserymen 
 (20.) Shopkeepers .... 
 (21.) Seafaring People 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 5,701 12 
 043 I 
 321 J2 
 
 1,024 11 6 
 494 18 11 
 
 214 3 
 
 436 6 G 
 
 119 
 
 396 3 
 
 277 18 G 
 
 178 17 
 
 148 1 6 
 
 85 5 3 
 
 186 16 
 
 64 9 6 
 
 82 
 
 63 5 9 
 109 11 6 
 
 98 5 11 
 
 64 18 
 76 7 
 50 12 
 29 17 6 
 64 7 6 
 
 460 2 
 
 137 5 6 
 
 16,028 2 6 
 
 1,701 12 6 
 
 1,519 10 5 
 
 3,343 12 11 
 
 X28,022 18 4 
 
( 43 ) 
 
 I 
 
 2,'280 .') 
 H,.H2 l!i 
 
 1!)8 18 
 
 Hroufrlit forward 
 
 f» (1.) PerHoiiH in the oiiiiiloyitiontof otluMH, 
 
 incliuliiif^ Mamij^cfH ami Koremuu 
 
 of Public WorlvH, ClerkH, Waro- 
 
 liinisciiit'ii, Siio|imt'n, &«. 
 
 (2.) Workiiij^f-claHHCH .... 
 
 Ante. — Tliu diviiiion of the obovn two ClniiNt« 
 may not Im* quite auciiriitc, nit in iiuiiieniii!t 
 I'ONCN till' rcturiiit wt-ru iiiiule without i>\)t»- 
 cifying scpuruli'Iy Iho |iri)|iortioiiii CMintri- 
 butt'd liy Maim^ura, &c., uiid Worltiiivri. 
 
 (3.) Doini'Htic SorvniitH .... 
 
 fi, ProfV'HHional V\u>*h — 
 
 (1.) Cloffj^yuu'ii 
 
 (2.) Naval and Military Men . 
 
 (3.) LawyofH, oxchisivo of €10.') from 
 Facnlty 
 
 (4.) M'-'dical Moii, ditto .... 
 
 (5.) Profi'SHors in llniverHity . 
 
 (C) Banki'rH 
 
 (7.) Accountants, Insnranco BrokerH, 
 House Factors, and Stockbrokers, 
 oxclnsivo of tlO") from Stock 
 E.\cbango ..... 
 
 (8.) Architects 
 
 (9.) Teachers and their Pupils 
 
 r>. Miscellaneous, includinof I^adies, Landed Pro- 
 prietors, and persons living on 
 their property, independent of 
 Trade, IJiisiness, or Profession . . . 
 
 Total Sum subscribed to 27th March, 1855 
 
 .£. 
 28,022 
 
 133 
 
 5 
 
 t; 
 
 57 
 
 Hi 
 
 (> 
 
 1,182 
 
 I 
 
 1 
 
 230 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 73 
 
 s 
 
 
 
 17!t 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 801 li) 
 
 C 
 
 1!) 1!) 
 
 
 
 300 5 
 
 (; 
 
 
 10,8!I2 3 2 
 
 2.ftMtl 10 I 
 
 2,ti34 
 ,t44,5-H. 
 
 .'» t 
 
( M ) 
 
 Ih 
 
 Statkmknt uC Patiuutki 
 lieceiptM ami I'aipnentH frmn 
 
 t .s, ,1. 
 
 Tti CotitrilMitioiiN rcccivitl lutwvi-ii tlic lUtli 
 
 OctoluT and the .iOtli Novi-iiiImt iHri-l \TlMu\ 1> 7 
 Ditto, in tlif Month cntlinjL'- :U»t, Dccfmlicr ;114,!H»7 |;{ ;{ 
 "'♦<" «litt(. .•!lNt Jan. isr.f, 
 
 l->i^t" illtto -jstli VA,. 
 
 Ditto ditto .'ilst Mtiicli 
 
 Ditto, from 1st to Ttli X^yW 
 
 To IntcTcNt on E.\cho4Ucr ItillN 
 
 \ 
 
 \ 
 
 \ 
 
 •_>l8,'_>o;t i!t ;i 
 
 IHl.TTI! 10 10 
 
 !•!),;! 1.') IS 4 
 
 •.'0,47.s !l 10 
 
 !ir.7.4;w 14 1 
 
 •217 Iti 
 
 \ 
 
 \ 
 
 je957,6r.fi 10 1 
 
( i^ ) 
 
 Kii.vn Account. 
 
 Uifh Odnher IHr.l to 'l\)tli March iHi'tfi. 
 
 liiVfHtnuiitM ill l')x(lic(jut'i' HjIIh 
 
 „ M.\oli(M|iU'r IIoikIh 
 
 Loan to LoimUhi ami North WtKtorii Uailwiiy 
 ('oiii|iiiiiy ... 
 „ Oi'ciit WtstiTii Uiiilway ('oni|)iiiiy . 
 „ Nortli Knstcni Ilailway (\)!ii|iiiiiy . 
 „ Loiitloii, Hii^^liton, and South CoiiKt 
 Railway ('()iii|paiiy 
 St. Catliarinc'H Dcx'ks . 
 Orciit Southern and Wosteni Rail- 
 way Company 
 
 cv. 
 
 .V. «/. t. .V. «/. 
 
 ;t2i,7ti;{ in ■ 2 
 
 188,27!) n 4 
 
 
 M(l,U()0 
 
 80,000 
 
 (!0,000 
 
 50,000 
 
 •)0,000 
 
 4r),ooo 
 
 InvcHtment in Canada DiliuiituroM 
 
 .•{Cr.,000 
 21,500 
 
 Rofundod to Lowestoft Local Coiimiitti'c, it having been twice 
 paid ........ 
 
 „ Central Aasoeiation, jwt of (Collection at Van 
 
 Dionien's Land for Widoww, Wives and Orphan.s 
 
 „ Awsociation for Relief of Wives of Seamen and 
 
 Marines ........ 
 
 „ Central AsHociatioii, ditto ditto, at Victoria, 
 
 Now South Wales 
 
 Paid for Counsel's Fee and Expenses for preparation of Royal 
 Commission ......... 
 
 „ for Office Kxficnses, viz. — 
 
 Salaries . 500 17 2 
 
 Stationery . . 42 13 3 
 Postaf^e (59 4 4 
 
 Fuel and Lighting 16 4 10 
 
 Coach Hire . 17 15 
 
 Mi.scellaneous 94 10 9 
 
 .£890,543 8 (} 
 
 378 11 (I 
 
 503 H 2 
 
 503 ti 2 
 
 500 
 
 45 12 9 
 
 Allowances to Widow.s and Orphans 
 
 Advertisements of Subscriptions (an expense which will 
 shortly cease) ......... 
 
 Balance at the Bank of England . . . 53,904 8 5 
 „ at Messrs. Drummonds' . . . 12 1 
 
 in the Office Ca.sh 
 
 18 19 8 
 
 747 14 4 
 2,957 14 I 
 
 1,481 7 6 
 
 53,995 9 1 
 
 X957,r)56 10 1 
 
( HI ) 
 
 KhTIM.\TKI» IncoMK ok I»,\TIII'>TU' l-'lM). 
 
 Kyfiiiuttid IncoiHi' fnnii luir/itmi'iifs. 
 
 X 
 
 ,s. 
 
 ./. 
 
 o,!)r»() 
 
 
 
 
 
 «i,i7r» 
 
 (1 
 
 It 
 
 :{,8oo 
 
 
 
 (1 
 
 i.noo 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 !tO(» 
 
 (1 
 
 
 
 .•fjO.OOU Kxcli.iimr IHIIh, at -M'/ I'tr I'ciit. |i«'r iliiiii lO.iCtO 
 
 iH.'t.OUO {) Mxclin|Ht I- IloiitlH, III t"J lO-x. |M'r I'oiit, |nr 
 
 aiiiiiiiii ....... 
 
 HO.oiMl Loan lo tlnat Wi-Ktcrn Iliiilwuy ('ttni|miiy, 111 
 
 I] per (Milt. |M r :iiiiiiiiii . . 
 
 10,0(10 Loan to Xortli KaNlc-ni Hailwtiy, at 4} |H>r cotit 
 
 |HT aiiiiiiiii ...... 
 
 20,000 |)itlo ditto at U por ociit. |H>r uiiniiiii 
 MO.OOO Loan to Loinloii and Xortli Wi'Httin Uailway, 
 
 at li |u r ii'iil, |Mi' anniini ... 
 .'(O.OOO I) U Loan to London, llii<r)iton, and Sontli ('oa.st 
 
 Hailwav ('onii)any, at 14 |'i'i' ri-nt. |nr 
 
 aiinnni ....... 
 
 .'lO.OOO Loan to St. Catliaiinr's Dock Coinpany, at 
 
 li ]ivv cent. ...... 
 
 l.'i.OOO Loan to (tivat Soutli.'in and WVstfiii Uailway, 
 
 at 14 I" r cent, por annum . , . 2,02.') 
 
 L'O.OOO (I Canada iKlMiitmcM, at (1 per oont. por anmiin. 1,200 
 
 :i,i;oo u 
 
 2,2r»o 
 
 2,250 
 
 .'■..S.OJt.'i y 1 wiy at t.'t lO.y. 0./. per annum 
 Total Lii'onn' 
 
 1,K00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 . .€:{", 1 50 
 
 Now cafios of WidowH and OrpliauH aro beinfj received at the rate of 70 
 and 7.''>, nsptetively, per week (causing an annual iiicroasf of (;|,17H eacli 
 WL'ek); wliieli, at the cxjiiration of 10 wtcks, witliout any extraordinary 
 caHualties. woulil make lie Expenditure equal to the income. 
 
 TluK large acceHwion of numbers does not ariBo ho much from recent, cases of 
 mortality, as from the time that elap.se8 before tlie Widows are made acipiainted 
 with the deaths of their husbands. 
 
 Your Committee, having regard to the present amount of Subscriptions 
 and the numlxjr of Claimants on the Fund, beg to recommend the Allowances 
 to be increased according to the following Scale, subject to revision in case 
 the numl)er of Apjdicants should liereafter render it necessary to reduce the 
 Allowances. 
 
( \7 ) 
 
 .1. 
 
 
 
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 I'miva'I'M oCllin Ammv mill M.\HiN»;t, nml {'►:itv (nmciiN iinij St,\Mi.\ oI'iIm' N \\\. 
 
 AIIMV 
 
 AMI 
 
 IIOVAI, MAIIINKf*. 
 
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 ^I'lniil- ! 
 
 IMK ' 
 
 II. Jill WkIoWI. 
 ; N«.jr. I 
 
 Wll KI.V Al.l.dWAM'i;. 
 
 I Ir uilliii KiiiiiU living \\\\U Mil' 
 
 I Ml.illlT. 
 
 Cliilili'i'ii. 
 Twd. 'riirii'. I'diir, 
 
 riT«, 
 
 KKMAItKM. 
 
 1 I'luM. 
 
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 4lli. 
 
 
 otii. 
 
 
 
 I ' I" r wfi'k to lie tiMii 111 
 
 •Slutl Miin-niiiiiii|i<- I , 
 
 "iniiiil OlliiTr . , ( ''"l- 
 
 iSt'infiiiil, ((,'iil(iiir I 
 
 S<Turaiil.(l(/ II Hrrk (illi, 5 o 
 ilil(lltiiiiiiil), , ,1 
 
 C(ir|MirulurlliiiiilNirilii'r "ili. .( d i; ,) 
 
 Druiiiiiu'r.'ri'iiiniiolcr, I ^. , 
 
 orrrivati. . . .( ""'• ' *' 
 
 b !) h) II u I -J 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 II 
 
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 II 
 
 (1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
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 (1 
 
 !l 
 
 II 1(1 
 
 II 
 
 
 
 li 
 
 (i 
 
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 li 
 
 8 
 
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 iviry iiillrin Wnli", 
 mill M. iiililiili.ii.il III 
 iiisi'i* lit* iieiiic illu<<M», 
 mill iiulf llii'-i' miiiiii I'lir 
 I'.icll i'lillit inidiT Hiiiiihir 
 >'ii'i'iiiii>ln<ii't« All nl- 
 liiwillli'is uu' 'II hi' mli- 
 
 >Ct to ll.r I'l.llilitillh 
 
 Klali'il ilillii' l;..\iil(' 
 
 ininsloil, tliiit llii' ifi'i. 
 |iii'iil« arr iiimlili' In 
 iiiMihIiiiii III' mippurt 
 iIil'iiim'Im'h, iuul ill j;t'- 
 I'lTill llii'M' Hill mil lie 
 iiiitili'nr I'oLiiiiiU'il III Or* 
 jiii.iiis iil'lir ill. 'J nlinll 
 liiiM' ntluiiii'tl lilt' :i|ji' III 
 
 Tliirly Oillliii)!> ti> ln'iillimr.! rvtni iliiriiin |h r'.i.l iit'i'dhlliicimnt. 
 Kroiii I/. 111,. i„ -il. liK. liir II \Vi,|,i«'» riimi'ul, iiml Imlf Ibr lliul nla Cliilil. 
 
 Ah till' fiirffroinj,' Snili' I'nr Wiili.ws uikI ( )r|iliiiii.,imist nwcssniily l.f imlii- 
 
 ClICC'il 1)_V IIk' VliriullH ci-ClllMslllllci'H of cvirv Clisr, llltlliHli,'li tin- Scillr is fn III' 
 
 ♦ 111' fri'iitriil nil.', tin; Cniiiiiiiil.'i. iUT to Iv at liluTty In di'viiit.' from it in cases 
 oalliiifj: Cor llif cxLTi-isf of tlirir ilif^crrtiDii ; sickncs.s ami l_viii<;-iii, tor rxaiiiplc. 
 will admit ofcxccjition. 
 
 Tho allowaiifc'M ari' in no iiistaiu'c to lir tmnsft'rml or asHi>;-ncil, ami their 
 coutiiUK'tl iiaviiicnl must (|i'|ii'nii on tin.' fircuinstaii.'c.-* of tlii' parties ami the 
 siitlicieuey of tho l-'uml lo answer llie ik'niauds mxin it. 
 
 That the allowance to WidoWH cease ii|ion their second niarriatfi . imli.'^s 
 coiitiiiUL'd l)_v an express order of the Cominittee; imt during' any siili.seipieiit 
 widowhood the Widow is to bu at lilierty to apply to he re|iliioed on the i-'iind; 
 but no woman in to continuo to receive an allowanee if she shall, in the opinion 
 of tlie Coinmittoe, by prolligate eomliict disliomuir the memory of her hiisliand. 
 
 The IJi.yal Commission has confined relief to those who are nnabli' to relieve 
 or support iheniselves. Those who are in recei[)t of wa.ires adeipiate to tlu'ir 
 supjiort, or who by jnoper exertion are able to i ain a respectable livelihood 
 arc not, so lonjjfas such is the ca.se, in a position to reeeivi' tli,. same ;ilIowanees 
 as Widows who from want of health, or from the infancy, or niinibe;-. ei h,.li,. 
 los.sne.ss of their children, are not able to maintain themselves; but the Ivxeeiitive 
 Committee, desirous of encoura<;in,i,' and rewarding: those who endeavour bv 
 honest indiLstry to gain their own livelihood, have resolved, that where aiiv 
 Widow not receiving relief from this Fund for her.self, shall produce Qiiarterlv 
 to the Secretary of the Koyal Commissioners, satisfactory evidence that she is in 
 
 II 
 
■rir 
 
 ( IS ) 
 
 scrvico. or llial >lu' is mniutainin};' liiTsclt' liy carrvinp: on uiiy lidsiiicss or oilier 
 nciMi|.ati<ni, till' Oomiuith'i' will, every (Jiiarter, iiri'seiit every siieli Widow with 
 u sum not less than one jnruiiiea.nor nuMV tlian one ami a lialf trninea, aerordini; 
 to their opinion of the m'eneral merits of each caHi!. 
 
 Every Widow, therefore, in serviee will receive, in addition to her wa^'es, 
 at least four "guineas a-vear. liy Quarterly jiayments, from the Fund, and in 
 juojier oases as muoli as six j:;uineas a-year (piarterly. A Widow takinji^ 
 service will in no manner previ-nt her from reoeivin.u^ the Allowauees af- 
 forded l>v the Scale for her Children, hut, oTi the contrary, where it can he 
 accomplished, the rommittee will place her Children in jiroper Asylums, and 
 when she may he temporarily out of service, the refjjular Allowance will he made 
 to her. At;;e, inlirmity, or sickness will in all cases i>e received as a fjroiind 
 for special relief, and in proportion to the |irevions exertions of the Claimant, 
 and the dcLTree of industry and self-reliance she has manifestol whilst in health 
 and capahle of workiujir. will he the dis|>osition of the Committee to extend to 
 her at such periods, the aid of tlic Patriotic Fund. I?ut yoiu' Connnitti'c will 
 eairfnllv iiiiard against unfu\inded claims on the Fund. 
 
 (Si^nied) ST. LKONAWDS, 
 
 Cluiinndii iif Ciiiitiiiittt'c. 
 
 KIa <ii\ii/ (iiiinif S/rnt, W'stmhi'-f'r, 
 A/>rll 0///. IS'i.'). 
 
( >'J ) 
 
 Ai'i'i..Ni)ix E. 
 
 IJiTiHN of \VIl)u\^^ of Oii'K Kits ol' AiiMV iiiul Nwv frcin \\\u<u\ Arri.K atkins 
 fiir l{i;i.ii.i' hiivc lu'cn IJiicKivi.i). 
 
 Hnnk of llmliaiitl. 
 
 ( uusi' ■.mil I'hici' of Dialli. 
 
 ;1 
 
 Niiiiil>cr 
 
 of 
 
 Chil- 
 
 (Irfii. 
 
 5 . 3 Be 
 
 Mii°' 
 
 z o - "• 
 
 - .• i ? i I'iitriiiUc 
 
 (iraiitfil from 
 
 1 S= i al Fund. : huiitl. 
 
 6 IV- S 
 
 AllMV. 
 
 rjit'Ul.-Colom'l 
 
 LiiMit.-Coliiiii'I aiul Major 
 Mujor iiiiil Itrt'vot Lieut. -| 
 
 Colonel I 
 
 1st C'la.'is Slatl'-Siiri;eoti 
 ('attain .... 
 Capluiii .... 
 
 Captain .... 
 
 L'ml Clas.s StaH-Siirucoii 
 l/ieiitenaiit and Ailjiitaiil 
 Lieutenant .... 
 
 (iimrter-JLi.ster 
 
 fJiiarler-Ma.ster 
 (jnai'ter-Master 
 (Juuiter-Ma.ster 
 Assistant Coniniis-suriat- 
 Clerk .... 
 
 Ktlnsioii of ll 
 
 llniin . 
 From WoMinl 
 Womiils received | 
 
 i 
 
 Ml aetioii . 
 Cholera . 
 
 Killed . . . 
 
 Killed . . . 
 
 I'ro/.en to Death 
 
 liefiirc Selm.stopol 
 Seiitari . 
 Ink.rMinn 
 
 Ko!lal>lc . . 
 
 Inkernian . . ! 
 
 Alma , . . ^ 
 I r.etwei'n llalaklava ( 
 ] and I he Trenches ( 
 
 Scutari . 
 
 Alma 
 
 (tallipoli 
 
 liel'ore Selia>lopol 
 
 , Died . . 
 
 Killed . . 
 
 Dieil . . 
 I Fatiyiie and l')x 
 i| posnre 
 
 Died on his return to I'.njflaiK 
 , Died . . . j Crimea . 
 , Died ... I Crimea . 
 
 Malaria and Cho. I. j^^,^.,,,^ 
 lera . . .1 
 
 f. 
 
 i;!o 
 i,s) 
 
 90 
 
 l.'.(i 
 
 178 
 
 J»S 
 
 HI 
 ()() 
 49 
 
 ■''.(> 
 .54 
 
 Nil. 
 
 £. 
 
 10 
 10 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 Navy. 
 
 Captain .... 
 Captain .... 
 Connnander 
 Captain .... 
 Chief Kn^:ineer, 3rd Class 
 Assistant- rCngineer 
 As,sistant- Knginecr 
 (iunner .... 
 fiHinier .... 
 lioatswnin .... 
 Koatswain .... 
 
 Oirpeiiter .... 
 
 Cholera . 
 Drowned 
 Drowned 
 Killed 
 
 Varna 
 
 Ualtic . . 
 lUack Sea . 
 I'etropanliiuski 
 
 Died from an injnrv received on duty 
 
 '. 'Haltic . . 
 'I'herapia 
 'I'herapia 
 
 . ' lllackSea . 
 
 . llallic . . 
 Kupatoria 
 |()ir the Co.- I of 
 
 • ( .lullund . . 
 
 Cholera . 
 
 Dysentery 
 
 Dysentery 
 
 Died 
 
 Died 
 
 DyseiiKry 
 
 Died 
 
 
 "-£. 1 
 
 2* 
 
 iK) 1 
 
 3 
 
 li« 
 
 2 
 
 ITO 
 
 3 
 
 118 
 
 5 
 
 Nil. 
 
 4 
 
 Nil. ' 
 
 1 
 
 Nil. i 
 
 . 
 
 Nil. 
 
 3 
 
 Nil. i 
 
 r> 
 
 Nil. i 
 
 1 
 
 Nil. 
 
 3 
 
 Nil. 
 
 £. 
 
 30 8 
 
 29 10 
 
 20 12 
 
 1.'. 
 
 22 IC) 
 
 28 
 
 n 12 
 
 22 l(i 
 
 £. 
 2(X) 
 
 no 
 
 1(X) 
 
 1(H) 
 1(H) 
 120 
 
 1.50 
 
 lis 
 
 50 
 70 
 
 100 
 
 70 
 
 70 
 80 
 
 l.'jo 
 
 15.1 
 90 
 
 110 
 50 
 40 
 30 
 20 
 40 
 50 
 25 
 
 40 
 
 • Oiu' of wliom is a cri|H>lo. 
 
 H 2 
 
(50 
 
 ScAI.K of Al.I.OWAM'K tor till! WlDOWS lliul OlU'llANS of tlu> \oN-('oM M ISSIONKU 
 
 OiiicKiis and I'iiivatks of tlie Ahmy ami Maimnks, ami I'lnv Oi'kict.rs and 
 
 Sr.AMiA 111' till' Xavv. 
 
 (To tiikcfrt't-rt I'roiii the 1st i>f Miircli. ) 
 
 WkKKI.Y Al.I.llMASCK. 
 
 AiiMV ami 
 1,'iivAI. M.\iiixi;s. 
 
 it- 
 
 f. '- 
 
 \ Class. 
 i4tii 
 
 If Willi a Faiiiilj liviii): «illi lln' Mother. 
 Children. 
 
 liKVAimi 
 
 Staff Noii-Coimnissioiicil I 
 
 ( micur 
 
 .Mil 
 
 Sergeant (Colour Sor- 1 
 
 ircaiit (>'/. a-nci'k ail- • (iili 
 
 ililioiial) . . . j 
 
 ('ur|iiiral or Hoiijbai'ilicr "lli 
 
 DruimiU'r. 'Iriiiiiix'tir, ( 
 
 or I'rivatc 
 
 Kill 
 
 !? 
 
 One. 
 
 1. <;. 
 
 Two. 
 
 Three. 
 
 Four. 
 
 Five. 
 
 '. (/. 
 
 S. il. 
 
 S. l/. 
 
 S. (t. 
 
 s. ,1. 
 
 (! 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 9 (i 
 
 Sixiwnco nililitionnl ]wr 
 
 wei'k to Ik- pivell to 
 
 every iiitiriii persmi. All 
 
 allowiiiR'cs are to be 
 
 Kiilijeet to the eoiulition 
 
 Rtal. il ill the lioyal Coia- 
 
 nii^Hioii, that the reei< 
 
 pieiits are unahle to 
 
 ] I niainlaiii or support 
 
 i themselves; anil ill geiie- 
 
 ! i ral these Mill not he 
 
 ■I il (! I G 6 ! 7 (I 7 6 I nmile or eonlinueil to 
 
 j Orphans after ihey shall 
 have utlaineil the aue uf 
 3 4 (> 5 (I (! () (i (> 7 1 ir.. 
 
 5 6 7 7 6 8 8 6 
 
 An'KNDIX (r. 
 
 (AMHXDHD.) 
 
 Sru.i. of Ai.i.ow AN( r. I'ov tlio Widows nml Okpuans of tlie Non-('ommissioni-.i) 
 ( )i i-|( r.iis ami I'uivati.s of tlio Ainiv and .Maiunf.s, ami I'i.ttv Oii-k r.iis ami 
 
 Si.AMl.N of the Xa\ V. 
 
 (To take I'HfCt frimi llic 1st of Muj ) 
 
 Ainiv and 
 laivAi. Makisks. 
 
 tea 
 
 ! I'a 
 
 Class. 
 I 4tli 
 
 Staff Xim-fnniiiiissiiiiii'il 
 
 I Ifhci 
 
 • f 
 
 ith 
 
 Serjeant (Coliiiir-Ser- \ 
 jeaiit *i<l. a-week ail- (itli 
 ilitlMUal) ... I 
 
 t'orporal iir lionibaiillcr 7tli 
 
 Dniiiiiiicr. 'I'riimiieliT, I 
 or I'rivale . . . f 
 
 WkkKI.V Al.l.OWANrK. 
 
 If with a Family living with the Mother. 
 Children, 
 
 liKMAUKS 
 
 S, tt. .1. tt. 
 
 One. i Two. \ Three. Four, i Five 
 
 I 
 
 <i. 
 
 il. 
 
 • I. s. (1. One shilliii|r ailditioual 
 
 ] per wi'ek to lie f^iven to 
 
 II , 1 I every infirm Widow, ami 
 
 j I [ I lis. additional in e.ases of 
 
 ■ ; ' aeiite illness, and half 
 
 en a II 'i\ n ic nil i\ lo n ' llnse sums for eaehehild 
 
 (. 8 I 9 10 I) 11 12 ,„„|^.,, ^|„„|,,^ ,.;,.,,„,„. 
 
 1 I I slaiiees. .VII allow aiiees 
 
 I I are to \tc siili.jeet to the 
 
 9 '10 111 eonditiou stated in the 
 
 I I i.'oyal t'oinmission, that 
 
 I i the Keeipientsareunalile 
 
 to maintain or supporl 
 
 () fi 7 SO 9 10 tln-ins, Ives, and in (J. ne- 
 
 ral thi'so will not lie 
 
 . 1 j made or eontinned to 
 
 , , t I n - r ' r r ' -7 r ' u r ' n <• Orphans after they shall 
 
 8tli 1 4 .J : (> f) 7 () 8 ; 9 have attained the age of 
 
 III I ; 15, 
 
 ,i 
 
 I 8 
 
 '.'I. Ins. to hi' allowed extra during period of confinrinent From CI. IDs. to L)l. lil«. for a Widow's funeral, and 
 half for that of the Child. 
 
NrMEUirAi, Retuun 
 rt'ooiviiifi^ 1{i:i,ii;k 
 in which thoy 111' 
 
 ( 51 ) 
 
 Aimm:ni>ix ir. 
 
 of Widows and Ciiii.dukx of the Primary C\.\9sv.s 
 from tho Patriotic Frxn, showing' also tlie Distuicts 
 ;siin:. 
 
 KlA (frrnt Gconjc. l^hret, WcxtminMer, Afay 10, 1855 
 
 
 
 AUMY. 
 
 
 
 NAVY. 
 
 
 
 
 Wiiiow 
 
 J ll 
 
 32 ; 
 
 is S : 
 s is 
 
 Chii.dbk 
 
 I'otal. 
 
 WiDOWH. 1 Childhen. 
 
 UISTIilCTS. 
 
 i 
 
 Total. 
 
 II 
 
 n 
 
 t' 
 
 j 
 
 1 
 
 d 
 
 d 1 
 ■S ' 
 
 5 
 
 ''Il' 
 
 Total. \ -^J 
 
 •i Total. 
 
 2 
 
 ESOLANU. 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 1 
 
 
 ! 
 1 
 
 
 Bath 
 
 • • 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 1 
 ,1 
 
 
 
 
 Hirniinghaiii 
 
 2 8| 
 
 10 ' 11 
 
 •• 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Itoltoii 1 
 
 3 <) I 
 
 12 U) 
 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 Brighton 
 
 2 G 
 
 8 9 i 
 
 i 
 
 
 9 
 
 •• 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 ■■ 
 
 1 
 
 Bristol 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 G 9 
 
 J 
 
 9 
 
 1 
 
 • • 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 2 
 
 2 ! 
 
 4 4 
 
 i 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 ' 
 
 Canterbury 
 
 8 ! 
 
 11 
 
 1!) 21 
 
 
 21 
 
 1 '■ 
 
 2 
 
 3 j; 5 1 t; 
 
 Carlisle 
 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 17 16 
 
 
 IG 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 Chatham 
 
 5 
 
 I'.l 
 
 24 33 
 
 
 33 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 10 ' 10 .. 1 10 
 
 1 i 
 
 Chester 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 2 j . • 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 tl 
 
 
 
 Coventry 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 9 13 
 
 •• 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Derby 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 fi *! 
 
 •■ 
 
 4 
 
 
 . 
 
 
 j 
 
 Kxeter 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 6 ; n 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 •■ \ 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 .. : s 
 
 Falmimtli 
 
 2 
 
 a 
 
 8 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 •• 
 
 i^ 
 
 1 
 
 (i 
 
 6 .. ^> 
 
 (Gloucester 
 
 3 
 
 (> 
 
 ' 9 19 
 
 j i 
 
 •• 
 
 19 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 2 .. 2 
 
 i 
 
 Halifax 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 L-i ' L5 
 
 •• 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 j 
 
 I 
 
 Hull 
 
 , . 
 
 « 
 
 1 G 12 
 
 ■ 
 
 •• 
 
 1 12 
 
 •• 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 4 .. 1 
 
 Ipswieh 
 
 3 
 
 ! 11 
 
 1 
 
 14 , 20 
 
 1 
 
 ! 21 
 
 1 
 
 - 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 .. 6 
 
 1 
 
 Jersey 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 ' 4 
 
 •• 
 
 •t 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 Lewis 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 25 
 
 1 
 
 I 23 
 
 •■ 
 
 j ^^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 Leicester 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 i 
 
 i ^ 
 
 i 
 1 ^ 
 
 •• 
 
 I 5 
 
 I 
 
 •• 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
 4i .. 4 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 1 IG 
 
 1 
 
 •• 
 
 1 16 
 
 
 
 
 ! 
 
 ! 
 
 Liverpool 
 
 5 
 
 23 
 
 28 ' 31 
 
 •• 
 
 i ^' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lynn 
 
 •• 
 
 1 
 
 I il 1 
 
 1 
 
 •• 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Manchester 
 
 10 i 29 
 
 i 
 
 39 1 50 
 
 I 
 
 51 
 
 
 ( 
 
 II 
 
 i 
 
 Carried forward . . 
 
 83 
 
 i 
 
 210 
 
 1 
 
 : 29.1 
 
 3G1 
 
 11 
 
 2 
 
 ; 3()3 
 
 j 
 
 10 
 
 ,22 
 
 32 
 
 ^4t 
 
 1 ' 
 
 i '' 
 
( -^2 ) 
 
 AKMY. 
 
 WiDOWH. 
 
 ClIII.IMtrN. 
 
 I 
 
 DISmiCTS. 
 
 
 
 r 
 
 Total. 
 
 NAVY. 
 WlKOWH. ! CniLUBKN. 
 
 Mmnglit forwnril 
 
 K.Mil VM) — itiiltiilllnl. 
 
 Nowcaslle-oii-Tyiii', 
 
 Nortliaiiiptuii 
 
 Norwich 
 
 Nottiiigliaiii 
 
 Oxfoni 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 I'ortsiiioiitli 
 
 I'rcstoti 
 
 Salisbury 
 
 Shetlii'ld 
 
 Shrewsbury 
 
 SoutliamptoM . . , , 
 
 StaHord, Nortli . . . . 
 
 Stockport 
 
 Tauiituii 
 
 Trowbriilgc 
 
 ( KiL-t . . . . 
 Walfs { 
 
 [ West . . . . 
 
 \\'i)lvc'rhain|)toi). 
 
 AViircisicr 
 
 York 
 
 l»t Ka>lei'ii Div. . 
 2ii(l Ditto 
 
 1st Western IJiv. 
 2iiil Ditto . 
 
 1st Northern Div. 
 2ii(l Ditto 
 
 Southern Division 
 Woolwich . 
 
 Total in ENGLAND 
 
 8 15 
 2 , 8 
 
 4 () 
 
 5 8 
 () 
 
 11 lo 
 
 10 1.-, 
 
 9 17 
 
 i 
 
 2 3 
 
 .. I 3 
 
 9 12 
 
 J 4 
 
 I 
 
 4 j 7 
 
 Louilon ' 
 
 I 3 
 
 5 
 
 i 9 
 1 
 
 '" 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 59 
 
 108 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 fi 
 
 C 
 
 4 
 
 11 
 
 7 
 
 22 
 
 51 
 
 280 
 
 559 
 
 3 e- 
 
 83 210 ! 293 ,861 
 
 23 25 
 10 13 
 10 13 
 
 13 13 
 
 •• 1 
 
 (i 10 
 
 1 
 
 2(i j 23 
 
 1 
 ■ ■ 
 
 25 !' 21 
 
 1 
 
 2fi 24 
 
 1 
 
 i 
 
 5 : 4 
 
 3 5 
 1 ^ 2 
 
 21 ' 22 
 
 4 7 
 11 \ H 
 
 5 5 
 
 sl: 5 
 
 3 !: 4 
 
 10 17 
 
 4 'I 4 
 (5 i 6 
 
 8 i 6 
 
 26 : 36 
 
 14 I 7 
 
 1G7 :198 
 
 2 I 2 
 
 11 i 12 
 
 I 
 
 10 i 10 
 
 18 
 73 
 
 839 
 
 14 
 
 97 
 
 2 363 
 
 13 
 13 
 13 
 10 
 25 
 22 
 24 
 4 
 d 
 2 
 22 
 8 
 14 
 5 
 5 
 4 
 18 
 4 
 6 
 C 
 3<i 
 8 
 203 
 2 
 13 
 10 
 15 
 103 
 
 -52 -a 
 
 982 19 
 
 1001 
 
 10 I 22 
 
 32 
 
 24 
 
 40 
 
 71 il53 
 
 Total. *3 a 
 
 I- ' 1 
 
 I 
 32 I 46 
 
 107 ; 157 
 64 89 
 
 I r. 
 
 224 323 
 
 Total. 
 
 157 
 89 
 
 326 
 
( .-i;! ) 
 
 
 
 ^^"^" 
 
 
 AltMl 
 
 '. 
 
 
 I'utal. 
 
 
 
 NAV 
 
 »• 1 
 
 i: 
 
 N. 
 
 
 Willows 
 
 . t 
 
 o 2 
 
 =5 ^ ' 
 
 s is 
 
 1 
 
 ('llIl.llllK, 
 t 
 
 III 
 
 IVilnl. "-'^l i 
 
 Widow 
 
 Chiluri 
 
 DISTIIICTS. 
 
 = — 
 
 d 
 
 g 
 
 is 
 
 Total. ,|-3 
 
 i 
 1 
 
 Fcitul. 
 
 IHKl.ANI). 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 ( 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aniiagli 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 4 j, 4 j . . 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 ' 
 
 
 
 
 Atliloiie . . . 
 
 i 
 
 6 
 
 6 : 10 .. 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Itullyniciia . 
 
 
 ■• 
 
 3 
 
 '\ «|- 
 
 G 
 
 • • 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 •• 
 
 •> 
 
 Ufltast . . . . 
 
 ' i 
 
 5 i 
 
 10 
 
 15 : 18 ! .. 
 
 18 
 
 
 1 
 
 ' 
 
 
 
 
 Itlrr 
 
 
 1 i 
 1 
 
 10 
 3 
 
 11 15 ■ 1 
 
 a; si .. 
 
 1 
 
 1() 
 2 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 ("arlow . . . . 
 
 , 
 
 
 Casllebar . . . 
 
 
 •• 
 
 2 
 
 ^ i; ^ » 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Cuvuii . . . . 
 
 • • 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 G 11 .. 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 Cliarlemont . 
 
 • • 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 5 1 » 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 j 
 
 ! 
 
 
 Cliiniiiel 
 
 • 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 6 11 .. 
 
 n 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 i 
 
 
 Cork . . . . 
 
 . 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 33 38 . . 
 
 .•!S 
 
 • • 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 3 1 
 
 4 
 
 Uroglii'tla 
 
 ■ • 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 5!' 2 .. 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 • • 
 
 1 
 
 ' 
 
 6 .. 
 
 fl 
 
 Dublin . . . 
 
 
 1!) 
 
 32 
 
 51 ; 58 1 3 
 
 (il 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 c 
 
 .. \ 5 
 
 Kiiiiis 
 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 « 
 
 9l .. 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 ] 
 i 
 
 
 Kiiniskillfii . 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 ' 
 
 •• 
 
 '} 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 Feruioy . 
 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 •• 
 
 14 
 
 • • 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 
 2 
 
 Cahvay . 
 
 . . . 
 
 5 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 10 j .. 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Kilkenny . . 
 
 
 o 
 
 4 
 
 9 
 
 10!.. 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Linu'iick 
 
 . . . 
 
 :i 
 
 I 15 
 
 1 
 18 
 
 24 . . 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 
 ! 
 
 
 
 Loiidonilerry 
 
 
 • ■ 
 
 ' 3 
 
 3 5 
 
 •• 
 
 1 5 
 
 • • 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 
 5 
 
 l^ingftird 
 
 
 I 
 
 1 1 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Muiiagluiii 
 
 . . . 
 
 •• 
 
 1 ^ 
 
 2 5! .. 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 Nowry . . , 
 
 
 2 3 
 
 1 4 1 
 
 1 ' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oniagii . 
 
 
 1 ; 1 
 
 2 11.. 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 j 
 
 
 
 Uusi^unnnon . 
 
 
 .. i 3 
 
 1 3 3 
 
 1 
 
 • • 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sligo . . . 
 
 
 '! ' 
 
 2 1 1 
 
 1 
 
 •• 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 
 
 'I'ralt'f 
 
 
 4 4 
 
 8 
 
 ; 8 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Tulluniori' . 
 
 . . . 
 
 1 1 
 
 .) 
 
 21 . . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 WatLTfor<l . . 
 
 KLANU 
 
 2 1 
 
 a 
 
 4 .. 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 • ■ 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 1 . • 
 1 
 
 ! 4 
 
 1 
 
 Total in III 
 
 7:5 
 
 ni 
 
 1 
 
 1 244 
 
 1 
 
 292 
 
 ' 7 
 i 
 
 291 
 
 1 
 
 V 
 
 K 
 
 1 
 
 1 13 
 
 i 
 
 27 
 
 I 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 2b 
 
 1 
 1 
 
( •">» ) 
 
 i)i!*iiiKr«. 
 
 AKMY. 
 
 WllWWII. ('HII.IIHKN. 
 
 tin 
 
 Total. ! *3 S < Tiilttl. 
 
 ts I 5 
 
 StOTLAMU. 
 
 AlH'rdi'eii 
 Am . . 
 Diiiuleb . 
 Kiiinburgl 
 
 IllVl'lllt'.S.S 
 
 Puisli')- . 
 
 I'.illi . 
 .Stirling . 
 Tliiirsd . 
 
 8 12 
 
 ij 2 
 
 4 i 6 J 10 
 10 31 
 
 20 
 7 
 8 
 7 
 3 
 1 
 
 >'i 
 
 NAVY. 
 
 Wiuowa. 
 
 S 3 
 
 V 'I 
 
 CUILUHKX. 
 
 *l 
 
 = 2 U : Total. ^3 
 
 10 
 
 5 ' 1 
 
 I 
 
 45 I 2 
 
 48 .. 
 
 41 
 51 
 
 10 10 
 
 14 
 
 12 i 1(5 
 3 I 4 
 
 1 4 
 
 U) 
 1 
 
 () 
 4" 
 4li 
 to 
 II 
 Hi 
 4 
 4 
 
 Total IN SCOTLAND 52 98 l.V) l.-).") ;i l.'.S 
 
 Aiiiit 
 
 limilogiu' 
 C'iuiiulu . 
 ('uviu 
 (iil)raltiii- 
 Mahii . 
 
 Total ABROAD 
 
 1 
 
 2 I 
 
 I 
 4 I 
 
 I ■ 1 ' 
 
 1 
 
 1 I 2 
 
 i 
 
 2 
 
 4 ij 12 
 l| 
 
 2 3 
 
 2 2 
 
 6 i y i l.i 21 
 
 12 
 
 21 
 
 ■■■J 5 
 
 I. - 
 
 Tolul 
 
 UKCAPITULATION. 
 
 
 
 
 Willows. 
 
 
 
 
 (■im,i)i!i;N. 
 
 \.»vv. 
 
 
 
 Armt. 
 
 Navt. 
 
 AllMV. 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 — ~, — 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 
 
 ^ it 
 
 ■t: ;j 
 is 
 
 With I'hil.lren. 
 
 T(,lal. 
 
 1, •-< s 
 
 Whose Mothers 
 are Living. 
 
 Orphans. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Ehgliiiid 
 
 280 
 
 5.-)U 
 
 71 
 
 153 
 
 1003 
 
 9S2 ! 19 
 
 1 i 
 
 1 323 1 3 
 
 1327 
 
 Irclaiiil 
 
 73 
 
 171 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 237 
 
 2<)2 7 
 
 |! 27 1 
 
 ;i27 
 
 Scotlaiul 
 
 32 
 
 98 
 
 
 2 
 
 lo2 
 
 15.3 , 3 
 
 1 
 
 i! 
 
 I{ 2 1 . . 
 
 too 
 
 AimKid 
 
 o 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Ij 
 
 21 
 
 •• 
 
 i! ■• ■■ 
 
 21 
 
 ioTAL 
 
 411 g,J7 
 
 74 1 105 
 
 1487 
 
 1450 
 
 29 
 
 1 332 i 4 
 
 1835 
 
! 
 
 ( J.'' ) 
 
 Ai'PKxnix I. 
 
 IIksomtions for the Guidanok of the ExEcrnvK and Fixaxce 
 
 COMMITTKE. 
 
 1. Tli(! CdiTimiHHionorH iuo of oj)iiiion tliiit, uiidor tlie teruiH of the 
 Royal ConuniHsioii, tlio WidowH and Or[)liiuis of {'omniisHioncd OfticorH 
 arc eligible for relief from the I'atriotie Kuiid ; hut iiiasnmeh as pro- 
 vJHion is made hy Parliament for granting !'ensi(»nH to personH of this 
 class, the Connnissioners eonnider that assistance ought oidy to ho 
 granted to them in special eases of great necessity, and that the relief 
 of Widows and Orphans of Non-CommisHioned OlTicers and Privates 
 ought to lu! regarded as the ])rimary ohject of the Fund. 
 
 2. That no condition beyond legal proof of Marriage be required 
 as a prima facie claim for relief. 
 
 3. That the terms of tlie Commission do not admit of an extension 
 to (irandmothers, Mothers, or unmarried Sisters. 
 
 4. That the Wives of Prisoners of War arc not eligible under the 
 terms of the Iloyal Conunissiim. 
 
 5. That Military Itegiments on Foreign Stations arc not to be 
 considered "on active service." 
 
 C. That Cruisers on Foreign Stations, others than those adjacent 
 to the Russian Coasts, are not to be considered " on active service," 
 unless when men are killed in actual action with Russians. 
 
 7. That inquiry shall he made as to whether apjdicants are in the 
 receipt of relief fnmi any otiier charity. 
 
 8. That the Widows of civil servants to Offieers are not eligible, 
 unless their husbands were actually killed " on active service." 
 
 9. That the following Clause of the Royal Commission—" And 
 " also by their gifts and subscriptions to contribute a portion of those 
 " means with which our nation has been blessed towards the suc- 
 " couring, educating, and relieving those who, by the loss of their 
 " Husbands and Parents in battle or by death on active service in 
 " the present war are unable to maintain or sujiport themselves," 
 embraces the cases of Widows and Oridians of Artiiicers and other 
 civil servants of the Crown employed in the East in connexion with 
 the present war. 
 
 10. That the Scale of Allowance (Appendix F) be for the Widows 
 and Orphans of the Non-Connnissioned Officers and Privates of the 
 Army and Marines, and Petty Officers and Seamen of the Navy, 
 subject to the condition in the Royal Commission, that the claimants 
 are unable to support or maintain themselves. 
 
 The allowance of a Widow, or a portion thereof, when necessary, 
 may be applied for the benefit of those Orphans who have lost both 
 Parents, under the direction of the Committee. 
 
( 50 ) 
 
 As tho iibovo-nu'ntioiicd Pcnlo for Widows and Orplinns must 
 iicci'Hsarily !>»» influeneetl l>y tho vftrioun eirciimHtnnoi'H of ovory case, 
 nlthnii^li tlio Softle is to Ihj tho jj^eiionil rule, tho Committoo uro to be 
 at liberty to doviate from it in caHOs calliiif? for tho oxorciHo of their 
 (b'Hcrctioii, — HickncsH and lyinp-iii, for example, will 'kdmit of excep- 
 tion. 
 
 The ailowaiices are in no inntanco to Ik) transferred or asHi^ued, 
 and tlieir continued payment miiHt depend ok the circuniHtanccB of 
 the parties, and the sufficiency of the fund to answer tho demandR 
 ii[)on it. 
 
 11. That the allowance to Widows cease upon their second mar- 
 riage, unless continued by an express order of tho Committee ; but 
 durinff any subsecpient widowhood tho widow is to be at liberty to 
 ap|)Iy to Imj replaced on the Fund ; but no woman is to continue to 
 receive an allowance if she shall, in the opinion of the Committee, by 
 prolli^ate conduct dishonour tho memory of her husband. 
 
 1 2. That the Committee be at liberty to place such Widows as they 
 deem it expedient in the Cambridge Asylum, at such an annual B>mj 
 or sums, or sum or sums in gross, once ])aid, and under such stipula- 
 tions as may bo deemed necessary, and as the Committee may think 
 proper, but subject to the 17th Resolution. 
 
 13. Tliat Widows who have received large sums as bonuses from 
 the Central or other Associations, be informed, that until these sums 
 are cxlmusted, at a rate of expenditure equal tt» the Scale of the Royal 
 Commission of the Patriotic Fund, their further applications cannot 
 be entertained. 
 
 14. That gratuitous offers of providing for Orphans, in part or 
 otherwise, be accepted at tiie discretion of the Committee. 
 
 15. That where Local Subscribers or Individuals are willing to 
 maintain and educate Orphans at tlieir own expense, tho Widows 
 may be relieved by the F'und, and the Children, when they are no 
 longer provided for by such Local Subscriptions or Individuals, shall 
 Ije eligible for relief from the Fund in like manner as if they wero 
 now applicants for relief. 
 
 l(i. That where Orphans are of a fit age to be placed in service, or 
 to be bound apprentice, the Conmiittee shall be at liberty to place 
 them out accordingly, and to place any Orphans for ediication in any 
 Asylum, Industrial School, or other establishment for receiving 
 Ori)banH or destitute Children; but the Committee is not to be at 
 liberty to purchase any perpetual right of presentation, or to endow 
 or enlarge any such establishment. If after all the other claims on 
 the Fund are satisfied a surplus should remain on hand, then the 
 subject of endowments shall be submitted to the consideration of tho 
 Royal Commissioners. 
 
 17. The Commissioners having determined at their first Meeting — 
 " That under the terms of the Royal Commission, the Widows and 
 " Orphans of Commissioned Ollicers are eligible for relief from the 
 
 
( " ) 
 
 " Patriotic Fmul ; Imt, itinsmuch an proviHion is made l)y Pnrlininent 
 " for fjjniiitinp I'ciiHioiiH to perHons < t' thin cIiihs, tliu f'ommiHHioncrH 
 " coiiHidi'r tliiit ivKHistiinci! oiij^ht only to Ihj f^ivuii to tlicm in special 
 " CBHCH of grout nccTHwity, and tliat the roiiof of tho Widows and 
 " OrplianK of Noii-CoinniinHionud OfficorH mid Privates ought to lie 
 " regarded as tlio primary oliject of the Fund." 
 
 They now declare that the following shall he the Scale of Allow- 
 ance for the Widows and Orphans of ConiiniNsioned Officers falling 
 within the foregoing Resolution, and subject to the provision for the 
 Widows and Orphans of Ntui-ComniiHsioned Officers and Privates 
 being deemed the primary objects of the Fund; the Committee to ho 
 at liberty, nevertheless, if they think that the Fund will permit it, to 
 allow to the Widow and Ciiildren of any ('oiamissioned Ofliter, in 
 cases of great necessity, an allowance not exceeding the Scale jiro- 
 posed, although it may not at tho time be ascertained how many 
 claimants of the prior class may have to be provided for. 
 
 ScAi.K of Ai.i.owAXCK for the Winows and Familiks of Commip- 
 
 sioxi:i) Offickks. 
 
 
 Nature 
 
 or 
 
 Allowance. 
 
 If killed 
 Action. 
 
 n 
 
 If drowno*l, or 
 
 liy other 
 violent Death. 
 
 Ordinary Death. 
 
 RANK. 
 
 1 
 
 § "I, 
 
 1.1 
 
 (2 
 
 Widow's Pen-siou. 
 
 Three Children ; Com- 
 passionate .\Ilowance. 
 
 1 
 e2 
 
 B 
 
 2 
 
 B 
 
 ■li 
 
 '» 
 O 
 
 is 
 
 .is 
 
 1% 
 
 il 
 
 t- 1 
 
 1 
 
 Captain, Anny ; I 
 corresponding > 
 rank, Navy . j 
 
 1 
 
 From Oovenmient . 
 .Supplemental from) 
 I'atriotie Fund . ( 
 
 From Government. 
 Supplemental from) 
 Patriotic Fund , [ 
 
 70 
 14 
 
 48 
 32 
 
 £. 
 164 
 
 1G4 
 
 152 
 
 92 
 
 1 
 
 £. : 
 
 GO 
 12 
 
 40 
 18 
 
 £. ■ 
 36 
 
 24 
 
 30 
 42 
 
 £. 
 132 
 
 130 
 
 87 
 
 £. 
 50 
 
 10 
 
 40 
 10 
 
 £. 
 36 
 
 16 
 
 30 
 32 
 
 £. 
 
 112 
 
 112 
 112 
 
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 Lieutenant, Amiy;1 
 correii)oiiding 
 rank, Navy .J 
 
 60 
 20 
 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 1 
 
 Ensign, Army ; ] From Govcrnnifiit . 
 corresponiiiiig > Siipplementnl froml 
 rank, Navy . J Patriotic FiiikI . | 
 
 50 
 18 
 
 35 
 15 
 
 42 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 36 
 16 
 
 30 
 
 30 
 30 
 
 42 
 
 Assistant P'ngi- FromOovi'rnment. 
 neers. Gunners, ; Suppli'menlal trom| 
 Itoatswains, &c. '■ Tatriolio Fund . j 
 
 30 
 15 
 
 42 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Note.— If killed in action, a cruluity is jiranted hy the Government to the Widow, ounnl to one year's 
 full pay of the rank which her husband held; and to each Orphan under the age of 21, one-third of the 
 gratuity to the Widow. 
 
 The Commissioners having regard to the probable amount of the 
 Fund, regret that they have not been enabled to extend the proposed 
 Allowances higher than the rank of a Captain in the Army. They 
 
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 arc awaro that caHcs of jjivut prcHrtiiri' iimy t'xiHt anioiigHt hdiiic of ilic 
 liiglicr raiikH, and it will affonl tlinn plcaMiiro if, in tlu' remit, tlm 
 amount of the Funds should onahli! tlu-ni to propoHO an oxtonmon of 
 the Soalo after satiHtyinf; all prior olilipatiuiiH. 
 
 18. That pasKafi^ort for WidowH an<l Orphanw to Canada, AiiHtralia, 
 and other places lie granted, i>iit only where the Conwnittee are 
 satisfied that they have friends in those places who will assist them, 
 and prevent their again lieconiing a hurthen on the Fund. 
 
 li*. That a Vote of Thanks he given to the ('oinmissi<iners in Aid, 
 The Cliairniaii, Secretaries and Treasurers of Local Conunittees, the 
 l?ankers and others who have assisted the lloyal OommisHioners in 
 carrying Her Majesty's gracious intentions into cflect. 
 
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