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(b.) For every Field Officer and for every Non-combatant Officer (not being an honorary officer) who has attended the number of drills prescribed for efficients (not being recruits) of his arm of the service. Such drills may, with the sanction of the Commanding Officer, consist of drill of any kind (including inspection), and gun practice or class-firing. In the case of Chaplains, the presence of those officers with their regiment in camp will be sufficient to entitle the regiment to the allowance on account of the Chaplain. (c.) For every Trumpeter or Bugler borne on the authorized establishment of the regiment, who is duly qualified as such, and has attended the drills prescribed for efficients (not being recruits) of his arm of the service. ((".) For every efficient Volunteer. (e.) For every Adjutant and Sergeant-Instructor on the Permanent Staff. 246. Officers and Sergeant-Instructors need not go through target-practice in order to earn capitation allowances for their regiments. 247. Honorary officers appointed under previous regulations, and boys appointed under paragraph 6 of the present regulations, except those borne as Trumpeters or Buglers on the authorized establishment of a regiment, cannot earn capitation allowances. 248. Volunteers, when attending gun practice or united drill under command of their officers, will be conveyed free by rail, together with guns, limbers, horses, and camp equipments. VOLUNTEEE OeEICEES. 249. Officers commanding regiments will receive an allowance of £50 a year in lieu of travelling expenses. 250. Officers of the Volunteer Force travelling on military duty other than that of the particular corps to which they belong will, when entitled to travelling expenses, be granted travelling allowance at the following rates for every complete day and night they may be necessarily absent from their quarters, or usual places of residence. The issue of these rates will be regulated by the substantive rank of the officer in the Volunteer Force:— Daily. For Field Officers ... ... ... 15s. For other officers ... ... ... 10s. 251. Travelling allowance will not be issued on account of detention at one place for more than seven consecutive days, unless the period be extended by the authority of the Defence Minister on a representation in each case showing the necessity for prolonging the duty on which the officer had been engaged. Pat amd Finance. 252. Officers and Volunteers (excepting officers and non-commis-sioned officers of the Permanent Staff), when out on actual military service in the field, or when doing garrison duty, shall receive the following rates of pay, with a free ration when in the field, but with no other allowances whatsoever, except for Cavalry, who will receive forage in kind, or 3s. per diem in lieu thereof: — Lieutenant-Colonel, 255. per diem, with forage for two horses. Surgeon-Major, 30s. per diem, with forage for one horse. Major, 21s. per diem, with forage for one horse. Captain, 15s. per diem. Adjutant, 3s. 6d. in addition to pay, and forage for one horse. Quartermaster, 13s. 6d. Surgeon, 21s. Lieutenant, lis. Sub-Lieutenant, 10s. Staff Sergeants, 9s. Sergeants, 7s. Corporals, 6s. Trumpeters or Buglers, ss. Privates, ss. Rules. 253. Rules are given in the Appendix for the guidance of the Volunteer Force, and a copy will be given to each member on his enrolment.