The Amalgamation of the Royal & Indian Armies
Extracts
5. …..G.G. in Council, hereby offers to all Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, without exception, belonging to the European Artillery, Infantry and Sappers & Miners of all three Presidencies, to the European Cavalry in Bengal, including the Lahore Light Horse, to the German Soldiers of the 3d. Bombay European Regiment and to all men in the Depots of the Indian Forces at Dum-Dum, Barrackpore and other stations, the option of accepting General Service on the ordinary conditions of soldiers enlisted for the Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry of Her Majesty’s Line Army with a Bounty to all who are not of Warrant Rank at the rates to be presently stated.
6. Soldiers who now volunteer will have the option of choosing whether their future pensions shall be reckoned according to the Regulations of Her Majesty’s army or according to those of the Indian Forces. Their choice may be declared at ant time within three months of the date of their volunteering.
Soldiers who now volunteer will have the privilege of counting their past service and for Pension under whichever Regulations they may choose.
7. The Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers of the Artillery of each Presidency, who, under the above Conditions, may be willing to transfer their services absolutely to the Royal Regiment of Artillery of Bengal, Madras and Bombay, will be formed into new Troops and Batteries composed of men serving under the same conditions as those of the Royal Artillery. The soldiers who may decline to accept the offer will remain under their original conditions and, as the numbers of the men diminish by Casualties, the Batteries will be gradually diminished in number and will finally disappear.
8. Non-Commissioned Officers and Men who have been transferred from other Corps to the Corps of Sappers & Miners, and who may volunteer under the Conditions of Her Majesty’s General Service, will receive the rates of Bounty stated in paragraph 20, the acceptance of bounty will not involve their removal from the Sappers & Miners. Those who decline to accept the offer now made may continue with that Corps on their present conditions.
16. The Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Indian Infantry who may prefer the Conditions of the Indian Service, will be placed in one or more Regiments of Infantry, to be formed as Local Regiments in each Presidency with Officers selected from those who may not volunteer for Line Service.
19. Offer to Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men employed in the several Departments of the Army, to the Non-Commissioned Officers serving with the Native Regiments and to all other men borne on the Unattached List in Bengal and the List of Effective Supernumeraries in Madras and Bombay , the Governor-General in Council offers the option of accepting the Conditions of Her Majesty’s General Service, according to the Arm of the Service to which they belong, with a Bounty to all men not of Warrant Rank, who, under the usual Conditions of Service would be entitled to a Bounty, or of remaining on the Conditions of Indian Service, if they prefer to do so.
20.
| Men who have served more than 4 years from 18 February 1861 | Rs. 50 |
| Men who have less than 4 but more than 3 years | Rs. 40 |
| Men who have less than 3 but more than 2 years | Rs. 30 |
| Men who have less than 2 but more than 1 year | Rs. 20 |
| Men who have less than 1 year | Rs. 10 |