§ COLONEL C. H. LINDSAYasked the Secretary of State for War, In what way he has taken powers, in the Army Regulation Bill, with reference to the repayment of the customary price of an Officer's Commission, who is either dangerously ill or who has died, as intimated by the honourable and gallant Member for Truro to the honourable Member for Bedford on Monday evening?
§ MR. CARDWELL, in reply, said, he had taken no powers in the Army Regulation Bill to give any sum of money out of the public funds which would not have been received by officers under the circumstances if the Bill should not pass into law. What his hon. and gallant Friend (Captain Vivian) meant to say the other evening was, that a provision in the Bill which imposed a limit on the number of sales, operating in connection with the regulation with regard to those who died or were sick, might possibly inflict upon officers inconvenience and loss to which, under present circumstances, they were not subject, and that the limitation would, with the sanction of the Treasury, be open to consideration. For his own part, he wished to say that the limit would be open to consideration in Committee. It certainly was not intended by him to inflict any inconvenience or loss upon any officer to which he would not be subjected if the Bill did not pass.