§ In reply to Mr. GUEST,
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, the intention is to indemnify officers out of a public fund for that which they will no longer receive from a private one in respect of the regulation and customary price of their present commissions. What, therefore, they would have received before they will receive now, and this extends to claims under Section 1,069 of the Royal Warrant.
§ MR. BRISTOWEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether those gentlemen who had passed out of Sandhurst and were now waiting for Commissions were still to have precedence over those who had passed their examinations for direct Commissions, but had not yet been gazetted; whether gentlemen who had passed out of Sandhurst were all to stand in one list for Commissions, irrespective of their names being down for purchase or not; and, whether all gentlemen were to have their Commissions free, or were some to have them free and some by purchase?
§ MR. CARDWELLThose who have passed out of Sandhurst, and are waiting for commissions, will still have precedence over the others who have passed. Those who have passed out of Sandhurst will all stand on one list—the A list first, and the B second. All are to be without purchase. The commissions given without purchase will, of course, not be saleable.