allowance so, recommended as aforesaid shall in no case exceed double the pension in like case awarded to persons of corresponding rank in Her Majesty's regular Forces, as set forth in the scale in that behalf provided by Royal Warrant bearing date the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
If recommendation be confirmed by Governor, pension to be granted.
4.Upon the confirmation of any such recommendation as aforesaid by the Governor or other the Officer Administering the Government of the Province for the time being, duly notified in the Government Gazette, the person in whose favour such recommendation shall have been made shall be entitled to receive the pension or other allowance so to be awarded to him as aforesaid.
Chargeable upon general revenue of Province.
5.All such pensions or allowances shall issue and be payable out of the general revenue of the Province, and shall be paid monthly, viz., on the first day of every month in every year, and the acquittance or receipt of the person to whom such pension or other allowance shall be so awarded shall alone be a sufficient discharge for the payment of the same: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time to stop the payment of any such pension for such and the same causes as pensions held by persons having served in Her Majesty's regular Forces are liable to be forfeited.
