§ GENERAL DUNNEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, If it be true that the Chaplains in the Army are not paid until their pay is three months in arrear; and, if so, why they are subject to an inconvenience to which no other class of Officers is subject, and if a promise which it is said has been made to remove it will be carried into effect, and when?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONsaid, in reply, that the practice had hitherto been that chaplains in the army should draw their pay in the same manner as staff officers did, when their pay was three months in arrear. In February this year it was arranged that chaplains in the army should, if they thought proper, receive their pay when one month was in arrear. It had always been the system that staff officers should draw their pay in arrear instead of in advance, and there did not seem to him to be any grievance in that respect. The only objection to remove the ground of complaint was that to do so it would be necessary to provide in some one year a larger sum of money.