§ MAJOR O'BEIRNEasked the Secretary of State for War, Why officers returning from India to England on medical certificate are excluded from the benefits of the Travelling Warrant dated 1st April 1872, which allows the claim to travelling expenses of officers returning to England on medical certificate from Malta, Gibraltar, and the Colonies?
§ LORD EUSTACE CECIL,in reply, said, that the Warrant in question was only applicable to officers at home and in Colonial garrisons, and did not apply to the officers of the Indian Establishment at all.