§ MR. DALRYMPLEasked the Financial Secretary of the War Department, Whether, as compared with the pay received with their Regiments, Adjutants of Volunteers are not about £50 a-year richer, and Adjutants of Yeomanry about £200 a-year poorer by their appointments; whether, in Administrative Battalions, the Volunteer Adjutant has no financial duties as Yeomanry Adjutants have; whether a Volunteer Adjutant receives five shillings (in addition to his already higher pay) for every recruit enlisted through his agency, while a Yeomanry Adjutant receives nothing; whether the increase of pay given to Yeomanry Adjutants in 1876 was not counterbalanced by their being forbidden to receive anything from the Contingent Fund; what the reason for these differences is; and, whether it is not possible to place Yeomanry Adjutants on the same footing as Volunteers by giving them the pay, &c. of their rank as Captains of Cavalry?
COLONEL LOYD LINDSAYSir, the £50 alluded to by my hon. Friend undoubtedly refers to an allowance for a servant, which is given to adjutants of Volunteers, and also to an allowance for forage for one horse. My hon. Friend also asks whether, in administrative battalions, the Volunteer adjutant has no financial duties? Yes, Sir, he has very distinct financial duties to perform. As to the next part of the Question—if he is allowed by the officer commanding the brigade depôt to recruit?—he is entitled to 5s. head money; and if it were thought desirable that an adjutant of Yeomanry 1708 should be similarly employed he would receive a similar allowance. In 1876, upon the recommendation of a Committee, the pay of Yeomanry adjutants was increased; but, advisedly, they were not allowed to draw any part of the Contingent Fund belong to their regiments. Then, perhaps, my hon. Friend would like an analysis of the pay of adjutants of Yeomanry and Volunteers. The pay of an adjutant of Yeomanry is 10s. a-day, making £182 a-year; for forage and stabling he is allowed 2s. 4d. a-day, making £42 a-year, or a total of £224 a-year. The pay of Cavalry captains is 14s. a-day, or £266 a-year, with a forage allowance for three horses of £47 odd, making a total of £313 a-year. The pay of an adjutant of Volunteers is £211 a-year, with £42 for forage and stabling—total, £253 a-year. There is no doubt the pay of Yeomanry adjutants is less than that of Volunteer and Militia adjutants; but that was advisedly arranged in consequence of the duties which those officers have to perform being lighter than duties of adjutants of Volunteers and Militia; the pay was also regarded as sufficient to induce as many Cavalry captains as necessary to take the appointments for five years.