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situations whatsoever held by them, the emoluments of which are derived from other sources.

(g.) When the emoluments of a civil situation, to which a navy or army officer is about to be appointed, are derived from Imperial funds, and the officer is allowed by the Board of Admiralty or the Secretary of State to continue to draw, or has commuted, his non-effective pay, or has received a gratuity on retirement, the Treasury, if no precise salary be yet attached to the situation, to determine the amount of such salary, ad hoc, with due regard, not only to the value of the services to be rendered, but to the non-effective pay that will be drawn, or has been commuted or received, by the officer.

(h.) If, however, the salary of the civil situation, paid from Imperial funds, be already determined, it should be open to the Treasury, in concert with the employing department, to make an abatement, or not, from the salary, as may seem fitting, provided the abatement in no case exceed the actual amount of the non-effective pay, and that due warning thereof be given to the officer before he enters upon the situation.

(1.) All the foregoing regulations that apply to officers of the Army to apply also, mutatis mutandis, to officers of the Marines.

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The above regulations should be published by Order in Council for the Navy and Marines, and by Royal Warrant for the Army, and the whole of sec. 6 (4) of the Appropriation Act, 1870, should be repealed. operation of the regulations should not be retrospective. We have men- tioned retired full pay, and unattached pay, in the regulations, because examples of them are still found; but these descriptions of non-effective are dying out, and attention may really be confined to half-pay and retired pay pay in both Army and Navy.

The considerations which have guided us in framing these regulations have been the following

(1.) No question of abatement need be entertained by the Treasury, if the officer's salary be not derived from Imperial Funds, because, in such a case, there is a virtual change of employer, and the action of the second employer does not affect the obligations of the first, unless there be disciplinary reasons for its doing so, of which the War Office and Admiralty must judge; also, because there are strong political reasons for encouraging Colonies to employ naval and military officers.

(2.) Whenever non-effective pay is to be received by the officer, and the question of abatement has to be entertained by the Treasury, the abatement, if any, should be made from the civil salary; because, when retired pay has been received in the form of a gratuity, or any non-effective pay has been commuted, abatement can be made in no other way than from the civil salary; because retired pay represents the closing of a bargain between the officer and the Board of Admiralty, or the Secretary of State for War, which ought not to be disturbed on any merely pecuniary consideration, whilst the civil salary is a matter still open to arrangement; and because, granting this, the same course had better be pursued in regard to Navy half pay for the sake of uniformity.

(3.) The Treasury, in concert with the employing departments, should have a wide discretion in the matter of abatements from the civil salary when derived from Imperial funds, so that exemptions in favour of appointments in the Queen's Household, and in the Admiralty, and other special appointments may be continued or added to, and each case of abatement may be decided on its merits.

TREASURY,

We have the honour to be Your Lordships' obedient Servants,

19th February 1885.

THOS. C.-B.-CAVE.

HENRY J. VANSITTART NEALE.

G. L. RYDER.

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APPENDIX.

No. 1.

COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.

Downing Street, March 11, 1886.

SIR,

I AM directed by Earl Granville to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for War, that it has been represented to him that it would be a great advantage, and give a great impetus to the development of the military strength of the Colonies, if an increased number of commissions in Her Majesty's army could be given to officers of the different branches of the Colonial forces.

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Lord Granville would suggest that it might be desirable that this subject should be considered by a Departmental Committee of representatives of this Office and of the War If Mr. Campbell-Bannerman should concur in the expediency of the appoint- ment of such & Committee, Mr. Bramston, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, would be deputed to represent the Colonial Office.

I am, &c., The Under-Secretary of State, (Signed)

War Office.

SIR,

No. 2.

ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.

WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

War Office, March 20, 1886.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman to request you to inform Earl Granville that he concurs in the expediency of referring to a Departmental Committee, as suggested in your letter of the 11th instant, the question of giving an increased number of commissions in Her Majesty's army to officers of the Colonial forces, and that he has accordingly appointed a Committee, with Lord Sandhurst as chairman, to consider the subject. The following will be the War Office members :--

Major-General Hon. J. C. Dormer, C.B., Deputy Adjutant-General, Auxiliary Forces; Major-General Sir J. Stokes, K.C.B., Deputy Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers; Colonel W. R. Lascelles, Assistant Military Secretary; with

Mr. T. K. King, of the Military Secretary's Department, as Secretary.

Mr. Campbell-Bannerman will be glad if Mr. Bramston, who has been nominated by Lord Granville to represent the Colonial Office, will be good enough to communicate with Lord Sandhurst as to the assembling of the Committee.

The Under Secretary of State.

Colonial Office.

SIB,

No. 3.

I am, &c., (Signed)

RALPH THOMPSON,

WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Pall Mall, S.W., May 25, 1886.

WITH reference to my letter of the 20th March last,† I am directed by the Secretary of State to forward to you, for Earl Granville's information, the enclosed copy of a Report of the Committee which was appointed to consider the question of granting commissions in the Imperial army to officers of the Colonial local military forces.

Mr. Campbell-Bannerman will be glad to receive Lord Granville's concurrence in the Regulations which accompany the Report before they are published.

I have, &c., (Signed)

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

H. G. DEEDES.

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