§ MAJOR O'BEIRNEasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If he will explain why the Indian Government allowed the claim for travelling expenses in England of the Paymaster of the 3rd Hussars in December 1872, and again in October 1873, and how this fact is in accordance with the invariable rule of the Indian Government to disallow the travelling expenses in England of an officer ordered home from India on sick leave; and, does the order of the Indian Government of November 1878 apply to the Paymaster of the 3rd Hussars, who was directed to proceed to England to 1833 appear before a Medical Board by an order of the Indian Government dated 4th April 1878?
§ MR. E. STANHOPEThe claim for travelling expenses in England of the Paymaster of the 3rd Hussars at the dates named has not been made to, nor paid by, the India Office. The action of the Government of India in November, 1878, had no retrospective effect, but only that of putting an end to the submission of inadmissible claims for the future.