§ MR. BEACHsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether by cancelling paragraph 16 of the Militia Orders for the year 1870 it is intended that no definite rule should exist as to which Officer of Militia is to conduct the correspondence with the War Office?
§ MR. CARDWELLSir, the paragraph in question interfered in a way that was not intended with the functions of honorary colonels as prescribed by the Home Office Circular for 1853. By cancelling that paragraph, it is intended to revert to the provisions of the Circular.