§ VISCOUNT EMLYNasked the Secretary of State for War, Why Adjutants of Militia are not allowed to participate in the permanent retirement granted to Adjutants of Volunteers by the Royal Warrant of the 29th of October 1879, considering that Adjutants of Militia and Volunteers, under the designation of Adjutants of Auxiliary Forces, have hitherto had the same permanent retirement, the last Royal Warrant in which both are included being dated as recently as the 6th of April 1878?
§ MR. CHILDERSWhen I came to the War Office I found the question to which the noble Lord's inquiry refers under discussion, and we took it up without delay. It has now been decided, with the concurrence of the Treasury, that Adjutants of Militia and Yeomanry appointed before February, 1871, should have the same terms of retirement as Adjutants of Volunteers.