.11.N.P.9294
Admiralty,
118
20th November, 1917.
Rod. C.A, 21st Lovember, 1917.
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CERTIFIED TRUE COPY,
Gentlemen,
In reply to your letters of the 14th September, Hos. F/Nigeria/112 and 1/Hong kong/2712, I am commanded by my
Lords Commissionera of the admiralty to inform you that in
their opinion the bonus of 5/6d., a day each which has been
paid toCommanders 7,8, Rising and B.R.H. Taylour,R.N., with their Full Fay from the 4th August last should be regarded as part of their Laval Pay for the purpose indicated in your
letters.
As you have already been informed, the arrears of the
bonus to the 3rd August have been paid to the officers in
lump sume of over 200 each.
introduced
Had it not been for the changes recently endeesseted the
bonus would not have been paid until discharge at the end of
the far and would thenhave been issued not as a gratuity but
as arrears of pay. That the arrears of bonus were to be so
regarded is clear from the reasury ruling that the pa
were to be chargeable to Income Tax instead of being
therefrom as they would have been if treated as grathties.
notwithstanding this ruling, it appears to my Lords to be very doubtful whether, if the egulations had remained
uncharged and the payment of the accumulated bonus had been
deferred to the end of the war, an equivalent deduction from
Civil Pay could then have been insisted upon. Such a course
might conveivably have resulted in an Ufficer being reandmną
to refund the whole of his Civil Pay since the ourb
War.
It is therefore considered that the aircr
justify application to the
con Agents
the Colonies,
bank,
reasury for the r
officers from any deductions from their i vi
of the
/ payments actually made on account of bonus t Ventlemen, Your obedient se
I am.
3d.