§ MR. TREVELYANsaid, he wished to ask the President of the Board of Trade, Whether the survivors of the seamen who paid the sixpence a month, commonly known as the "Greenwich sixpence," which was discontinued in the year 1834, have not a claim on the Hospital on account of that payment; and, if so, what is the extent and nature of that claim?
§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEreplied that, if the survivors of those seamen who paid the sixpence per month, commonly known as the "Greenwich sixpence," and which was discontinued in 1834, had a claim on the Hospital on account of that payment, it certainly was of a moral and not of a legal character. He could not, however, state the nature or extent of such a claim.