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may also draw the retired pay earned by so much of his Colonial service as procede d his retirement from the army.

Article 991 of the Pay Warrant must be amended accordingly.

(3.) If the officer be on the retired list when he accepts Colonial employment, his retired pay need not be suspended in whole or part by reason of such employment unless the Secretary of State deems fit, even though the retired pay may have been earned by mixed army and civil service.

(4.) No service under a Colonial Government subsequent to retirement from the army shall increase the charge for an officer's retired pay upon Imperial funds. (5.) These rules may be applied to officers now in Colonial employment.

I am to add that my Lords will, not press further for tho restriction of the Colonial employment of an officer on the active list to five

I am, &c..

The Financial Secretary, War Office.

years.

(Signed)

R. E. WELBY.

P.S. This letter has been communicated to the Board of Admiralty with an intimation that my Lords assent to the application of like rules to naval officers.

No. 29.

TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Treasury Chambers, December 13, 1886.

SIR,

In reply to your letter of the 2nd instant, respecting the employment of officers drawing Imperial non-effective pay by Colonial Governments, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury request you to inform Mr. Secretary Stanhope that, when they consented to withdraw their proposal for a definite reduction of the officers' emoluments, and to substitute for it only an undertaking by the Colonial Office to consult this Department on the subject of those emoluments, it seemed only reasonable that the lightening of the obligation should be accompanied by an extension of the field of its application.

Their Lordships have accordingly asked that the Treasury may be consulted whenover the officer is omployed in an Exchequer-aided Colony, whether that Colony submits its estimates to the Treasury or not. the Secretary of State, my Lords agree that a Colony which is only indirectly aided In deference, however, to the wishes of by the Exchequer need not be held to belong to the category of " Colonies."

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No, 31.

COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY. SIR,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Stanhope to acknowledge the receipt of your

Downing Street, December 24, 1886. letter of the 20th ultimo,* enclosing for his information a copy of a letter of 19th November, which the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury had caused to be addressed to the War Department on the, subject of the conditions of employment of military officers by Colonial Governments.

I am to state for their Lordships' information that he has also received from the Admiralty a copy of that letter and of their Lordships' letter to the Admiralty of 20th November, and is informed by the Admiralty that in view of the concessions contained in their Lordships' letter referred to, no further question appears to exist, and that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty will take steps to procuro the necessary Order in Council with regard to naval and marine officers.

I am to request thaf Mr. Stanhope may bo informed whether their Lordships will cause the requisite legislation to be prepared for giving in other respects legal effect to the arrangements.

The Secretary to the Treasury.

Sta,

No. 32.

I am, &c.,

(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON.

COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.

appears by the letter of the 19th ultimo,† from the Secretary of the Treasury

Downing Street, January 28, 1887. to the Financial Secretary of the War Office on the subject of the position of Imperial officers in the employment of the Colonial Governments, that Article 991 of the Army Pay Warrant was to be amended in accordance with the decision conveyed in that letter, but as the article appears not to be altered by the new warrant of 1st January 1897, I am directed by Secretary Sir Henry Holland to inquire how soon it may be expected that the amended article will be issued.

The Under-Secretary of State,

War Office.

I am, &c.,

(Signed)

ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am, &c., (Signed) R. E. WELBY.

No. 33.

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No. 30.

COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.

Downing Street, December 17, 1886.

SIR,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Stanhope to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant,† stating, with reference to the question of consulting the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury respecting the salaries of officers drawing Imperial non- effective pay who which is only indirectly aided by the Exchequer need not be held to belong to the be employed by certain Colonial Governments, that a Colony category of Exchequer-aided Colonies"; and in reply I am to state to you for their Lordships' information that Mr. Stanhope has received this announcement with satisfaction.

may

The Secretary to the Treasury.

I am, &c.,

(Signed)

JOHN BRAMSTON.

The RIGHT HON. SIR H. T. HOLLAND, BART., G.C.M.G., M.P., to the GOVERNORS OF COLONIES UNDER RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AND NATAL.

(Circular.)

SIR,

In the year 1885 questions were raised by the Governinents of Canada and

Downing Street, February 1, 1887. Victoria, in relation to the Imperial pay and pension, and to the promotion in the Imperial service, of Imperial naval and military officers employed by Colonial Govern- ments. Her Majesty's Government have had the subject under their consideration, and I have now the honour to enclose copy of a communication from the Lords Commis- sioners of the Admiralty showing the arrangements which have been adopted in order to meet the views of the Colonial Governments. likewise be permitted to take service under Colonial Governments without suffering any I may add that civilian pensioners will deduction from their Imperial pensions.

The correspondence on the subject, which is not yet quite complete, will be presented to Parliament, but the enclosure to this despatch is forwarded to you in advance, as coutaining the decision arrived at.

I have, &c., (Signed) H. T. HOLLAND.

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† No. 29.

• No. 26.

† See Enclosure in No. 28.

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