§ LORD EUSTACE CECILasked the Secretary of State for War, What measures he proposes to adopt to obviate the serious professional injury which the Clause of the Army Regulation Bill prohibiting money being given for exchanges, will cause to those officers who have purchased half-pay promotion on the well known understanding that, by the payment of a certain sum of money, they could at any time secure an exchange to full-pay?
§ MR. CARDWELLSir, half-pay officers will be eligible, as now, to be brought back to the full-pay list, as 1262 opportunities occur, but they will not pay for it. The noble Lord appears to have overlooked or disregarded the injunction in the Royal Warrant, which prohibits an officer from designating his successor.