CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12] — Page 123

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wrying the W.O. to give him exceptional treatment

When Inquird privatch at the W. A. Some months back by your direction as to this man's case.

I gathered that under their

regulations he was considered not have

a

leg to stand upon, but that there was an agitation on the military side of the W.O. to

get the regulations changed.

than

The warrant as to the immer of retired military pay practically makes the conditions on which it may be drawn the same as on case of half pay ; & those conditions are the found in the Appropriation Act of 1870. As I read them, the only occasion on which a Colony

plea

can put in a special stain for a relaxation of the general regulations in its favour is when it is too poor to pay the market price of the marker artide it requires

Stongkang is, or certainly

was, quite capable of finding whatever money

is a competent gaoler_

Kymind to teeme.

& pay

The exact conditions on which relied should be suspended in the event of reemployment is a pection primarily for the military authorities to deterunt; "but the principle that it is to be qually liable

to suspension, from whichever of H. M. fruttic Revennes the remuneration will be provided has not been open to serion question for

the last 20 years, titrecons to me idle * attempt to reopen the question now in the face of mich enactments as the 7th claws of the Governors pension All (20129/ic: cap (x1), the clauses of th. Appropriation Act of 187% alme and the Act 35 ric caps wh

referred to

was passed for the express purpose of removing

_

all doubts on the subject _ That last that

particularly splifies India, tit is notorion. that there is not an officer of any cost in that country poid room the funds of the Uniteating dom

The principle works well enough for all parties, as there have been vasion. mistances where Colonial persioners have been subjected to abatement on recmployment under ottier Governments. It is to be found for instance in all the Colonial Acts providing

compensation for Offices abolished on the introduction of Responsible Gost twas certainty applied in Lis A. Clarke's case.

Ibelieve

And I think his G. Bowe should

be told that Col: Stanley can do nothing more in his behalf.

Jn 16/185.

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