§ MR. HEALY (for Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether similar conditions of retirement will be sanctioned for the Captain and Lieutenants of Orderlies, A.H.C., who do not wish to serve under the new Royal Warrant as Hospital Quartermasters, to those granted by the Royal Warrant of the 12th July 1878 to the Assistant Commissaries who declined to accept the position of Quartermaster in the Commissariat Department?
§ MR. CHILDERSNo, Sir; the circumstances are entirely different. The Assistant Commissaries were largely reduced in number, and were no longer eligible for promotion in the Department, and it was reasonable to offer them, under such circumstances, facili- 994 ties on a liberal scale for leaving the Department. This is not the case with respect to the officers referred to by the hon. Member.