MR. MONCKTONasked the Secretary of State for War, Why the Horse Duty is no longer to be refunded to Officers in the Yeomanry Cavalry as formerly; on what principle, in the case of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, the claim for money refunded to the Officers for Horse Duty on May 10th 1872 was disallowed by the War Office in November, in accordance with a War Office Letter dated June 8, 1872, that is nearly a month subsequent to the payment of the money; and, whether he would state what was the nature of that Letter?
§ SIR HENRY STORKS,in reply, said, the reason why the duty was no longer to be refunded to Officers was that the Duty was no longer required to be paid. Officers were not now required to take out licences. With regard to the Sherwood Rangers, what had been stated was simply this—that the money should have been reclaimed from the Local Surveyor of Inland Revenue, and that not having been done, it could not be allowed in the War Office accounts.