§ COLONEL NORTHasked the Secretary of State for War, If it is true that officers who accepted appointments as Generals, 12 Lieutenant Generals, and Major Generals in the Mobilization of 1876 have been disallowed the Staff pay of their respective ranks as named in General Orders, by reducing it to that of inferior rank; and, whether this reduction was made known to those officers before appointment, and under what Warrant or Regulation this reduction has been made?
MR. GATHORNE HARDY,in reply, said, that no such deduction had been made, the pay having been given according to the rank held. That was the rule at present followed, but he did not wish it to be regarded as a precedent for the future.