§ MR. DICKINSONsaid, he would beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether, at the time when the Bombay Military Fund was transferred to Government in 1866, the then Directors of the Fund did not contemplate raising widows' pensions to the rate at which they stood prior to their reduction in 1851; and, whether the Fund is not in a position to justify such increase; or, if the state of the Fund has not yet been ascertained, when does he expect that it will be?
MR. GRANT DUFFIn reply to my hon. Friend's first Question, I have to say that we have no information at all as to the intentions of the directors. In reply to his second and third Questions, I have to say that the eminent actuary Mr. Samuel Brown has been for a long 433 time examining into the position of the fund, and that we hope before long to receive his Report.