HC Deb 02 August 1875 vol 226 c374
COLONEL NAGHTEN

asked the Secretary of State for War, If he will recommend that those Adjutants of Militia who retired since the appointment of those officers has been invested in the Crown, shall receive the benefit of the increased retiring allowance granted by the new warrant

MR. GATHORNE HARDY

Sir, the Patent of the 26th of March last was not intended to be retrospective, and I am afraid I cannot make it so.