HC Deb 17 February 1873 vol 214 cc543-4
SIR CHARLES WINGFIELD

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether any decision has been arrived at in respect of the claims of the Officers of the Royal (late Indian) Engineers to com- pensation for the abolition of their bonus fund, consequent on the issue of the Royal Warrant of 1871?

MR. CARDWELL

I propose that the principle applied by the Act of Parliament to the 12 regiments formerly on the Indian establishment shall be applied to the Artillery and Engineer Corps, so far as they may be able to establish to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that any just claim exists in respect of any bonus fund existing on the day on which Purchase was abolished?