[Sidenote H: Widows of officers and soldiers, one fourth of the ordinary stated pay their husbands enjoyed whilst in service.]
[Sidenote I: To be paid yearly and every year during their natural lives.]
[Sidenote J: Widows to be admitted on such testimonials only as the Court of Directors shall approve.]
[Sidenote K: To continue during widowhood, and no longer.]
[Sidenote L: No officer or soldier to be admitted, unless disabled by wounds, or rendered incapable by age or other accidents. The Directors to be judges.]
[Sidenote M: Officers and soldiers must produce a certificate from their commanding officer, of their being invalids and unfit for service in India; and an approbation of such certificate from the Governor and Council. The Court may admit petitioners in the Company's service residing in England, if they shall judge them fit objects.]
[Sidenote N: A colonel must swear he is not possessed of, or entitled to, real and personal estate to the value of 4,000_l._; a lieutenant-colonel, of 3,000_l._; a major, of 2,500_l._; a captain, of 2,000_l._; a lieutenant, of 1,000_l._; and an ensign of 750_l._]
[Sidenote O: Widows must lay before the Court satisfactory evidence that their respective husbands did not die worth the sums above specified.]
[Sidenote [P]: To be entitled from the times of their arrival in England.]
[Sidenote [Q]: All disputes or doubts concerning qualifications of petitioners, distribution, or times of payment, to be decided by the Court of Directors only.]
[Sidenote [R]: Interest on the eight lacks due 29th September 1769, value 24,128_l._, to be erected into capital, and to carry 8 per cent. interest from that time.]
[Sidenote [S]: The contingent fund is to be appropriated for all incident expenses of carrying the fund into execution, and for such objects of charity belonging to the military, their widows or families, as the Court shall think fit.]
[Sidenote T: If the Company should lose or part with their territorial possessions in Bengal, so that Lord Clive's jaghire should cease before the term agreed upon, or if the Company should cease to maintain a military force in India before 1784, in either case the five lacks to be restored to Lord Clive or his executors, but chargeable with the proportion of all the pensions assigned on the eight lacks generally.]