SIR JOHN HAYasked the Secretary of State for War, If there is any precedent why officers of the Control Department who have not been promoted by the introduction of the Control Warrant should be called upon to pay the Stamp Duty for a new commission; and, further, if there is any objection to officers who have not been promoted, and who receive no benefits from the Control Warrant, and who are permitted to retain the privileges accorded to them by former Warrants until promoted, being allowed to retain their original commissions as issued to them for their services in their old departments, without having to give them up to be substituted by new commissions in the Control Department?
§ MR. CARDWELLAS soon as the new commissions of those officers who have not been promoted have been signed and issued the old commissions will be received back, and the 30s. for the stamp returned.