§ CAPTAIN LEICESTER VERNONsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will recommend that the Clause No. 12 of the Commissariat Warrant be extended to the Medical Officers' Army Warrant, whereby a Medical Officer, after twenty years' meritorious service, if pronounced by a Medical Board as permanently unfit for service, either mentally or physically, might be allowed to be placed on the permanent retired list; also when the medals will be issued, which it is understood will be granted for the achievements of the Army in India?
§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERTsaid, that the Indian medal would be issued when Her Majesty had decided for what operations the medal should be granted. The medals themselves had not yet been received, but when they were they would be sent to the office of the Secretary of State for India, in whose department the distribution of the medals lay. With regard to the question whether the Commissariat Warrant would be extended to the Medical Officers' Army Warrant, it was true that the Commissariat had got their warrant, and they had been treated with great liberality, but to extend that warrant to other branches of the service would lead to great expense and inconvenience.