HC Deb 12 March 1868 vol 190 c1453
MR. BAGWELL

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, If any provision has been or will be made for the unlimited service men of Cavalry Regiments or for limited service men who re-engaged prior to the Re-engagement Act (1867), whether they will still have to complete twenty-four years of service, or will they receive the benefit of the Re-engagement Act (1867), and become entitled to pension and discharge at the expiration of twenty-one years' service?

SIR JOHN PAKINGTON

said, that the concession would cost £90,000, and the military administration was already so expensive that he was obliged to decline making any further addition to it.