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No. 34.

WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Financial Secretary's Department,

War Office, February 4, 1887. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th ultimo,* and to acquaint you in reply, for the information of Secretary Sir Henry Holland, that a letter, submitting for financial approval the revised Articles 990 and 991 of the Royal Warrant of the 10th June 1884, was addressed to the Treasury on the 2nd instant. I am to add that Mr. Secretary Stanhope trusts that the matter will receive early attention at the Treasury, with which Department the subject

I have, &c.,

now rests.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

SIR,

No. 35,

(Signed)

H. T. DE LA BÈRE.

WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Financial Secretary's Department,

War Office, March 19, 1887. In reply to your letter of the 16th instant,† I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to request that you will inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the question of the conditions of employment of retired officers of the army under Colonial Governments is still under the consideration of the Treasury, and that, by a verbal reference to that Office, it has been ascertained that the subject will probably be brought before the House of Commons for the grant of special legislative powers at an early date.

I have, &c.,

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

(Signed)

SIR,

No. 36.

W. ST. JOHN BRODRICK.

COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.

Downing Street, March 25, 1887.

I AM directed by Sir Henry Holland to request that you will state to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that he will be glad to be favoured with an early reply to the letter from this Department of the 24th December last, on the subject of the conditions of employment of naval and military officers by Colonial Governments, as questions may be asked at the approaching Conference as to the present position of the question.

The Secretary to the Treasury.

• No. 82.

JOHN BRAMSTON.

I am, &c., (Signed)

↑ Not printed.

‡ No. 31.

TREASURY MINUTE

APPOINTING AN

INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE

ON THE RECEIPT OF

NAVAL OR MILITARY NON-EFFECTIVE PAY

WITH CIVIL SALARY, &c.

MY LORDS have before them letters from the Admiralty, dated 4th 20.197(84,, October last and 1st instant, and a letter from the War Office, dated

the 1st ultimo, agreeing to the appointment of an Inter-Departmental

Committee to consider the rules under which half, retired, or other non- effective pay should be issued to naval or military ofiicors who accept civil employment under the Crown, or are employed by Colonial Governments, and naming the gentlemen who should represent those Departments upon Committee.

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My Lords are accordingly pleased to appoint the following gentlemen, viz. : Mr. T. Cave-Browne-Cave. Assistant Accountant-General in the War

Office,

Mr. H. J. Vansittart Neale, a Principal Clerk in the Admiralty, and Mr. G. L. Ryder, a Principal Clerk in the Treasury,

to be a Committee for the above-mentioned purpose, and to direct them to report the result of their inquiries to this Department.

Their Lordships refer to the Committee the Report on the same subject 13,953 79. made to the Secretary of State for War by their Permanent Secretary and the Permanent Under Secretary of State for the War Department on the 4th August 1879, and communicated to this Department on the 9th idem, together with all the correspondence that has since passed between this Department and the War Office or Admiralty, whether upon the general principle or upon individual cases, and with the annexed memo- randa in print or MS.

General Principle. W.O. 19,354 79. Adm, 895 80. W.O. 6,885,

A. 19,503

W.O. 7,2471

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81,

10,546 83. 15,744

A. 13,540)

Special Cases.

15,05189. Colonel Isaacson,

A. 14,865

Prison Department.

.. 18,97983. Captain Thomas,

Colonial Employment.

A. 18,167/83. Captain Foot,

Consular Employment.

A. 18,774,83. Lieutenant Haggard,

A. 1,270/84.

A. 4,246,84.

A. 17,702 84.

Consular Employment. Lieutenant H. Hutchinson,

Colonial Employment. Assistant-Paymaster Hill,

Geological Survey. Commander Wright,

Colonial Employment.

A. 19155/84. Lieutenant Legh,

Colonial Employment.

Treasury Chambers,

Amongst the printed memoranda my Lords would draw the special attention of the Com- mittee to that printed in June 1882, and

headed "Question raised by the Comptroller

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and Auditor-General as to Naval Half-pay,

&c. in connexion with Civil Salary," a copy of which is filed with 19,503/81, and which forms Appendix 9 to the Report of the Committee of Public Accounts, 1882.

19th December 1884.

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+ 15866,

100.-2/85. Wt. 19865. E. & S.

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