HC Deb 03 August 1854 vol 135 c1225

Order for Committee read.

House in Committee.

MR. HUME

hoped that the Government would take care to find some suitable employment for Mr. Chadwick, who, though at present in ill health, had before him the prospect of many years in which he might do good service to the public.

MR. J. WILSON

said, it was an invariable rule with the Government in all cases where Parliament gave the discretion of granting pensions to public officers, to avail itself of any opportunity for finding active employment for such pensioners as should be capable of fulfilling it; and this rule would not be lost sight of in the case of Mr. Chadwick, confessedly a gentleman well adapted, when in health, for performing valuable public service.

Resolved, That the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury be authorised to direct the payment, out of the moneys that may be voted by Parliament, of a Retiring Allowance to one of the Members of the General Board of Health, whose office may be abolished by any Act of the present Session.