§ LORD GARLIESasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he is prepared to permit the Purchase Commissioners to treat officers who have been placed compulsorily upon half-pay, upon the same principles of equity which have been applied to other officers upon application for retirement from the Service by the sale of their Commissions?
§ MR. CARDWELL, in reply, said, the Act of last Session gave every officer an indemnity in respect of the sale of the commission he held at the time of the passing of the Act, and made the Purchase Commissioners the sole judges in every case. He was not prepared to say that he should ask Parliament for any power to giver over-regulation prices in any case in which such power was not given by the Act of last Session.