MR. NEVILLE-GRENVTLLE (for Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN)asked the Surveyor General of Ordnance, Whether allowance in lieu of forage is included in the pay of Adjutants of Yeomanry at 10s. per diem; and, whether Adjutants of Volunteers have allowance in lieu of forage, exclusive of their pay at 10s. per diem?
§ SIR HENRY STORKSSir, the adjutant has in each case 10s. a-day pay. In the case of the Yeomanry, this pay includes forage, except when out for permanent duty, when he has 3s. a-day extra. The Volunteer adjutant has 2s. a-day all the year round. The Volunteer adjutant has other duties, on which account, I presume, his pay is higher.
MR. BASSasked the Controller General of Ordnance, If he would state to the House why the Adjutants and Permanent Staff of the Yeomanry are not placed upon the same footing with regard to pay as the Adjutants and Serjeant Instructors of Volunteer Light Horse, the duties of the former being necessarily greater, besides their liability to be called upon at any moment?
§ SIR HENRY STORKSSir, the pay of Adjutants of Yeomanry Cavalry prior to 1861 was 8s. a-day, including 2s. a-day for forage. On the recommendation of the Committee appointed to inquire into the organization of the Yeomanry Cavalry, it was in 1861 raised to 10s. a-day, including forage, on the ground that Adjutants of Volunteers received such rate. In 1863, Adjutants of Volunteers were required to undertake the duties of paymaster to their regiments, and in consideration of that additional work, they were granted 10s. a-day exclusive of the forage allowance. The Adjutants of Yeomanry Cavalry not having as yet to perform any financial duties, their pay has not been raised to that of an Adjutant of Volunteers. The pay of a Yeomanry Cavalry sergeant-major is 2s. 2d. a-day more than a sergeant-major of Volunteers, the former being paid at the rate of 5s. 2d., the latter at 3s. a-day only. Ordinary sergeants of Yeomanry receive but 2s. a-day and a contingent or clothing allowance of £2 per annum. Sergeants of Volunteers received 2s. a-day pay and 6d. for lodging and clothing. The duties of the former—that is, sergeants of Yeomanry Cavalry—are simply to drill the men periodically, while the duties of the Volunteer sergeants are without intermission.