§ MAJOR O'BEIRNEasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether certain actuarial calculations, bearing upon the reconsideration of the Army Veterinary Warrant of 1878, and which the late Secretary of State for War stated in the House of Commons, on the 7th August 1879, were necessary in order to enable him to form an opinion as to the necessity of altering the terms of the Warrant in question, have been completed; and, if so, has he come to any conclusion as to the reasonableness of the complaints of Army veterinary surgeons as regards the operation of the Warrant of 1878, and is it contemplated to modify the terms of the present Warrant so as to remove the disabilities complained of?
§ MR. CHILDERSSir, in reply to my hon. and gallant Friend's Question, I find that the actuaries' calculations to which he refers were completed in September, 1879; but that after considering them, the late Government determined not to alter the Warrant of 1878.