§ SIR THOMAS BAZLEYsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for India, Why, in the consolidated pay of a Regimental Surgeon of the Indian Army is included a less staff salary than that which is granted to the Commandant, a Wing Commandant, or even to the Adjutant of a Native Regiment; also, of the reason why Regimental Surgeons are the only officers in India who have been deprived of the pecuniary advantage of the new Furlough Regulations of 1868, by the Government of India having ruled that they alone shall be prohibited receiving when on furlough in Europe 50 per 1426 cent of the salary of their appointments in India?
MR. GRANT DUFF, in reply, said, the reason why the additional or employed salary, which his hon. Friend called staff salary, of these officers was comparatively small was because their unemployed salary had been recently raised, and was very liberal. With regard to the second point, it had attracted the attention of the Department, and they were now in communication with the Government of India about it.