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or of Civil officers under the Board of Admiralty, with respect to whom the annual payment will be £40 only. In making this selection their Lordships will have regard solely to the pecuniary circumstances of the cadet and his parents. Applications for the reduced scale must be received at the Admiralty—For the January entry, before Ist October ; for the May entry, before Ist February ; for the September entry, before Ist June. Claims will be made upon the parents or guardians by the Accountant-General of the Navy for the sums payable as they become due, and the money should be at once remitted. 16. In addition to the above payments, any expenses incurred by a cadet for clothing, sports, books, instruments, washing, &c, as well as the allowance of Is. a week paid as pocket-money, are included in the personal account sent to the parent from the college as soon as possible after the end of each term. . 17. No pay is allowed by Government to the cadets in the colleges, except in the case of cadet captains, who receive a small weekly allowance. The pay of cadets in the training cruisers is Is. a day, and that of Midshipmen is Is. 9d. a day. 18. The fees specified in paragraph 15 will cease on the cadet joining the training cruiser. Parents or guardians will then be required to make the cadet a private allowance of £50 a year until he reaches the rank of Acting Sub-lieutenant, and thereafter a private allowance of £20 a year for as long as lie remains an Acting Sub-lieutenant, with pay at the rate of 3s. 6d. a day. 19. The parent or guardian of every cadet is required to provide outfit under the regulations in TOTP6 20. All travelling-expenses for cadets are advanced by the Paymaster of the college, who will charge the sum to the cadet's personal account. 21. Inasmuch as the cadets have a weekly allowance paid to them as pocket-money, and a charge is made to pay the expenses attending their amusements, it is unnecessary that their friends should give them any money, except on joining or on their return from the vacations, and the amount should then be reasonable. Such money as may be required by a cadet for any special circumstance will be advanced by the Paymaster under the authority of the Captain. 22. Any valuable gold watches or chains brought by the cadets to the colleges will be taken from them and placed in security until the cadets return home. Silver watches may be used. 23. Arrangements are made for the conveyance from Portsmouth to Osborne of the cadets who are joining the college for the first time. Such cadets should assemble at the dockyard gates (near Portsmouth Harbour Station) shortly before 3 p.m. on the day appointed for joining. Cadets rejoining the college will be expected to make their own arrangements for doing so. 24. Cadets are to bring their linen clean, and clothes and boots in good order, when they join the college, and also when they return from leave, and the outfit, as specified on the list attached, must be complete. A list of the clothes left behind will be sent with cadets when they go on leave. 25. Cadets are not permitted to open accounts with tradesmen. Parents or guardians are requested not to allow their sons' outfitters to supply clothes or other articles without their authorization. . , 26. Each cadet on joining and on returning after the vacations is required to produce a health certificate—signed by his parent or guardian not earlier than the day before the cadet's return— -to the effect that, so far as is known, he has not for at least three weeks immediately preceding his return been exposed to any infectious disease, or entered any house where such disease had existed. A certificate drawn up in the necessary form, is sent to each parent, and failure on the part of the cadet to produce this certificate, duly filled up and signed, on his return will entail his not being received. In the event of a cadet being placed on the sick-list, information is always sent to his parents or guardians, who are also kept informed of the progress of the patient should the illness be in the slightest degree serious. _ _ 27 Letters relative to the cadets should be addressed to The Commanding Officer, Royal Naval College," or " The Commanding Officer, H.M.S. ' '," and not to the Captain by name. Parents or guardians of cadets must, in all cases of permanent change of residence, inform the Admiralty and the commanding officer of the college or the cruiser without delay. 28 The course of study includes the following subjects : Mathematics, with geometrical drawing ; physics and chemistry ; mechanics and applied mechanics, with laboratory work ; applied eleotricity, with laboratory work ; engineering, with workshop practice, and mechanical drawing ; seamanship, with gunnery in the training cruiser ; navigation ; French or German ; English grammar and composition ; English literature ; history, including naval history ; geography ; Bible-study ; drill and physical training. . . A large proportion of the time of the cadets is given to the practical study of engineering m the workshops and instructional steamboats attached to the colleges, and also in the training cruisers. 29. In all subjects of instruction the principle will be followed of giving merit-marks for current work. At the end of each term the cadet's proficiency and progress will be tested, partly by examination and partly by the marks gained for current work. 30. The passing-out examination of cadets is representative of all subjects studied at the college, with the exception of religious knowledge, which does not form part of the official examination. Marks for work done during previous terms are combined with the marks directly awarded in the examination. . . First, second, and third classes will be awarded, and the class obtained m passing out counts afterwards towards promotion to the rank of Sub-lieutenant, promotion being accelerated according to the following scale : For a first class, two months ; for a second class, one month. The greatest amount of time that can be gained on passing out is accordingly two months. 31. Cadets may be required to withdraw at any time if in the opinion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty—(l) They fail to reach a satisfactory standard, or (2) their conduct is unsatisfactory, or (3) they are unsuitable for the naval service.