§ CAPTAIN PECHELLbegged to remind the Government of petitions which had been presented last Session, and the Session before, on the part of the paymasters in the Royal Navy. They complained that, a commission having been specially appointed to investigate the matter, they had not received the addition to their pay which that commission recommended. They 887 had abandoned large per centages in expectation that such an addition would be granted; and he now wished to ask what steps had been taken in regard to those petitioners, and whether any satisfactory arrangement had been made?
§ MR. WARDthought, the best answer he could give the hon. Gentleman was, that it was the intention of the Board of Admiralty to carry out the recommendation which had been given by the Commission of 1841; and an amount sufficient to meet the addition of 1s. a day would be included in the Estimates of the present year.