§ COLONEL SYKESasked the Under Secretary of State for India, With, reference to Lord Cranborne's Despatch to India on the Bonus question, dated 8th August 1866; to the subsequent Despatch of Sir Stafford Northcote, dated India Office, 2nd May 1867; to the Despatch of the Duke of Argyll, consequent on an Address of the House of Commons to the Queen, calling upon the Government of India for an opinion whether the conditions of the above Despatches had been fulfilled or not; to the answers of the several Governments in India; and finally, with reference to the fourth Clause of the Army Regulation Act of 1871; whether the Secretary of State for India in Council has taken the above documents into consideration, and is or is not prepared to grant bonus compensation to officers of the Indian Army, on the principle enunciated in Clause 4 of the Army Regulation Act, 1871?
MR. GRANT DUFF, in reply, said, the Secretary of State for India in Council, after most carefully considering the documents to which the hon. and gallant Member referred, was not prepared to grant bonus compensation upon any other terms than those set forth in the despatch of Lord Cranborne, of the 8th August, 1866.