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Show BRITISH PENSIONS. f-.abor.to System To IUar,l o, Tli. If I ntiilHoH. A British o.licer who loss a limb or en eve at once rewires a stun equivalent equiva-lent to a year's pay ami the price of an artificial limb. A year later he roa b granted a permanent annual pcu-B.on pcu-B.on graduated according to his rank. A lieutenant-general receives 52.000; a major-general, J1.7..0; a colone , ?1 ZOO; a major. ?1.000; a captain, ?a-.,0, and a subalteran, $350. When an officer offi-cer is wounded very severely he may receive a gratuity, varying fm three to twelve months' pay; and it the injury in-jury is likely to he permanent he will receive a pension of one half that granted to his rank for the loss of a limb or an eye. These pensions and gratuities, known in gloomy pleasantry in the :rUUu army as "blood mow,' are additional to the ordinary pensions pen-sions to which eilicers are entitled to in the normal course of events. TUa widows and children of officers are not technically entitled to pensions; they receive them as a matter of grace and not of right. Take the ease of the widow and children of a colonel. It he dies from the en'r-ts of a campaign the widow receives and each child $100 per year, but if he is lulled in action or (lies of his wounds she draws $1,000 and each child $120 annually. The scale for killed and died of wounds runs thus: A major's widow draws $700, a captain's $300, a subaltern's $400, their children vary from 125 tc 5175. |