Officers' children. 29. The compassionate allowance to officers' children shall not be granted to a son over the age of eighteen, nor to a Age limit. daughter over the age of twenty-one; and such allowance shall cease when the son reaches the age of eighteen, and when the daughter reaches the age of twenty-one or marries. 1 E. VII., c. 17, s. 23. Time of payment. 30. Pensions and compassionate allowances to officers' wives and children shall be paid from the day following that of the officer's death to the end of the fiscal year next ensuing; and subsequent payments shall be made yearly in advance from the beginning of the next fiscal year. 1 E. VII., c. 17, s. 24. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 706 CHAPTER 43. An Act respecting the Royal Military College. SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as the Royal Military College Act. Short title. INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- CONSTITUTION AND MANAGEMENT. Definitions. 3. There shall be an institution for the purpose of im- Establishparting a complete education in all branches of military tactics, ment. fortification, engineering, and general scientific knowledge in subjects connected with, and necessary to a thorough knowledge of the military profession, and for qualifying officers for command, and for staff appointments. 2. Such institution shall be known as the Royal Military Name. College, and shall be located in some one of the garrison towns of Canada. R.S., c. 42, s. 1. 4. The college shall be governed and its affairs administered Government under and according to regulations made and to be made from time to time, and approved by the Governor in Council, and published in the Canada Gazette. 2. All such regulations after such publication, shall have Regulations. the force of law, as fully as if they were contained in this Act, of which they shall be deemed to form part. 56 V., c. 17, s. 7. STAFF. 5. The college shall be conducted under the superinten- College staff. dence of a military officer, whose title or designation shall be that of Commandant, and who has special qualifications with 451 707 regard Appointment. Subordinate military staff. Civilian staff. Details. regard to discipline and to the instruction to be given, and there shall also be two other professors or instructors, and such other assistants as are found necessary and as are authorized by Parliament. 2. All the staff of the college shall be appointed by the Governor in Council, and shall hold office during pleasure. R.S., c. 42, s. 2. 6. There shall be a subordinate military staff, which shall be subject to such laws, orders and regulations, as govern the Permanent Force. 2. There shall be a subordinate civilian staff of such strength as the Governor in Council deems necessary. 3. The details of such subordinate staffs shall appear in the annual report laid before Parliament by the Minister. 56 V., c. 17, s. 2. Salaries. Details. SALARIES. 7. The salary of the Commandant shall not exceed three thousand two hundred dollars a year, and the salaries of the staff adjutant, professors, instructors, assistant instructors and staff, shall be fixed, and may be readjusted from time to time, by the Governor in Council and shall not exceed the total sum of thirty thousand dollars. 2. The details of such salaries shall appear in the annual report laid before Parliament by the Minister. 4-5 E. VII., c. 39, s. 1. Examiners. Examinations. Meetings. Examiners reports. BOARDS OF EXAMINERS. 8. A Board of Examiners shall be appointed by the Governor in Council, in each military district, consisting of three or more members, one of whom shall, when practicable, be an officer of the militia staff. 2. The Board shall be authorized to examine candidates for admission to the college as cadets and give certificates, in such form as is provided, to such as are able to qualify according to the regulations in that behalf. 3. Meetings of such boards shall be held when directed by the Minister. R.S., c. 42, s. 5. 9. The examiners shall transmit to the Department of to transmit Militia and Defence a report of the names of all candidates who succeed in obtaining certificates, for the information of the Governor in Council, with a report of each meeting. Contents. 2. Such report may embody any particular circumstances connected with the examination, or any special recommendation. R.S., c. 42, s. 7. CONDITIONS OF ENTRY. 10. Every candidate for admission to the college as student Examinashall be required to pass an examination, and obtain from the tions Board a certificate that he is proficient in the subjects pre- Proficiency. scribed by the regulations in that behalf. 2. They shall also be required to pass a medical examination, Medical. and produce evidence of good moral character. Character. 3. No candidate shall, except as hereinafter provided, be Age. accepted, who is under fifteen or over twenty years of age. R.S., c. 42, s. 6. ATTENDANCE. 11. The number of cadets in attendance at any one time Number of shall not exceed one hundred and twenty. cadets. 2. The term for which they shall be admitted shall not exceed Term. four years. 3. They shall be selected by the Governor in Council from How the list of names forwarded by the Board of Examiners in the selected. order of merit in which they pass their preliminary examination. 56 V., c. 17, s. 3. admission of Militia. 12. The Governor in Council may, in addition to the num- Temporary ber of cadets limited by this Act, and under such regulations as officers of the Governor in Council approves, for special reasons in the Active interests of the service, admit for a limited time officers of the Active Militia, not exceeding at any time ten in number, although over the age of twenty years, who have obtained a field. officer's certificate from one of the schools of military instruction, provided for by the Militia Act and regulations thereunder. R.S., c. 42, s. 10. INTERNAL REGULATIONS. tions. 13. Every person who enters upon a course of instruction All subject in the college shall sign a roll of entry and shall be thencefor- to regulaward for the period of his pupilage, subject to the King's Rules and Regulations, the Army Act, and to all other rules and regulations to which His Majesty's troops are subject. 56 V., c. 17, s. 6. 14. Each cadet shall be required to furnish himself with Supplies by books and such apparatus as are not supplied by the Govern- cadets. ment, and to pay a contribution in aid of the expense of procuring mess room table furniture. R.S., c. 42, s. 11; 56 V., c. 17, s. 5. Funds and allowances for cadets. 15. A sum not exceeding the rate of three hundred dollars per annum, and such allowances as are, from time to time, authorized by the Governor in Council, may be paid for each cadet during such period as he remains at the college, to meet the ordinary expenses of living, and the procuring of uniform. R.S., c. 42, s. 12. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 710 |