§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Under Secretary of State for India, To state the amount monthly paid for salaries and allowances to the officers employed on the Famine Commission, including the Secretariat and Establishment; also the amount paid to officers in India performing the duties of the Commissioners and Secretary?
§ MR. E. STANHOPESir, the amount now being paid monthly for salaries and allowances to the officers employed on the Famine Commission in England is 10,777 rupees, besides a guinea a-week to a messenger. We do not accurately know the allowances paid in India to officers acting for the Commissioners who are in England; but they are given under the general rules of the Service, which prescribe that each officer so acting receives 20 per cent of the pay of the substantive appointment of the absentee. But as the absentee receives only two-thirds of his Indian salary while working for the Famine Commission in England, the saving so effected more than covers the allowances in India.