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*Beach, Thomas
 * Elton, Frederick C.
 * McCorrie, C.
 * Hamilton, T. De Courcy
 * Byrne, John
 * Park, John
 * Wright, Alex.
 * Alexander, John
 * Lumley, Charles Henry
 * Coleman, John
 * Clifford, Hon. Henry H.
 * Cuninghame, William
 * Bourchier, Claude Thomas
 * Wheatley, F.
 * Knox, John
 * McGregor, R.
 * Humpston, Robert
 * Bradshaw, Joseph
 * Percy, Hon. Henry Hugh Manvers
 * Hope, William
 * Hale, Thomas Egerton
 * Conolly, John Augustus
 * Teesdale, Christopher Charles, C.
 * Malone Jospeh
 * Jones, Henry Mitchell
 * Esmonde, Thomas
 * Farrell, John
 * Symons, George
 * James Craig, James
 * Sylvester, William Henry Thomas
 * Crowe, Joseph P. H.
 * Havelock, Sir Henry Marshman, Bart.
 * Hancock, Thomas
 * Purcell, John

REGULATIONS RESPECTING FOREIGN ORDERS.

1. No subject of Her Majesty shall accept a Foreign Order from the Sovereign of any foreign country, or wear the insignia thereof, without haying previously obtained Her Majesty's permission to that effect, signified by a Warrant under Her Royal Sign Manual.

2. Such permission shall not be granted to any subject of Her Majesty, unless the Foreign Order shall have been conferred in consequence of active and distinguished service before the enemy, either at sea or in the field; or unless he shall have been actually and entirely employed, beyond Her Majesty's dominions, in the service of the Foreign Sovereign by whom the Order is conferred.

3. The intention of a Foreign Sovereign to confer upon a British Subject the Insignia of an Order, must be notified to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, either through the British Minister accredited at the Court of such Foreign Sovereign, or through His Minister accredited at the Court of Her Majesty.

4. If the service for which it is proposed to confer the Order has been performed during War, the Notification required by the preceding Clause must be made not later than two years after the exchange of the Ratifications of a Treaty of Peace. If the service has been performed in time of Peace, the Notification must be made within two years after the date of such service.

5. After such Notification shall have been received, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall, if the case comes within the conditions prescribed by the present Regulations, and arises from naval or military Services before the Enemy, refer it to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, previously to taking Her Majesty's pleasure thereupon, in order to ascertain whether there be any objection to Her Majesty's permission being granted. A similar reference shall also be made to the Commander-in-Chief, if the application relates to an Officer in the Army, or to the Lords of the Admiralty, if it relates to an Officer in the Navy.

6. When Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken the Queen's pleasure on such application, and shall have obtained Her Majesty's permission for the person in whose favour it has been made to accept the Foreign Order, and wear the Insignia thereof, he shall signify the same to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, in order that he may cause the Warrant required by Clause 1 to be prepared for the Royal Sign Manual. When such Warrant shall have been signed by the Queen, a Notification thereof shall be inserted in the Gazette, stating the service for which the Foreign Order has been conferred.

7. The Warrant signifying Her Majesty's permission, may, at the request and at the expense of the person who has obtained it, be registered in the College of Arms.

8. Every such Warrant as aforesaid shall contain a Clause providing that Her