§ SIR JOHN TRELAWNYsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary for War a question with regard to the retiring allowance of Colonel G. C. Mundy, late of the Department of the Minister for War.
§ SIR JOHN RAMSDENsaid, that 1574 Colonel Mundy had been Secretary to the War Minister; but his office was abolished when a consolidation of the Departments of the Army was effected. It was considered, however, that as Colonel Mundy had held a permanent office under the Crown he was entitled to receive compensation; and a pension of £1,000 a year was awarded to him, on condition that if he received any appointment under the Crown, whether military or civil, and his emoluments from such office amounted to £1,000 a year or upwards, his pension should remain in abeyance; and also that if the emoluments amounted to less than £1,000, he should only receive so much of his pension as would make the whole amount which he drew from the public purse £1,000 a year. Colonel Mundy had recently been appointed Governor of Jersey, and, as the emoluments of that office amounted to more than £1,000 a year, of course he did not receive any portion of his pension.
§ SIR JOHN TRELAWNYsaid, he wished to know how long Colonel Mundy had served in the War Office?
§ SIR JOHN RAMSDENTwo years, I believe.