§ MR. PUGHasked the Secretary of State for India, Whether he had had an opportunity of considering the many representations that had been made to him from India with reference to the reduction of the salaries of the High Court Judges in Bengal, proposed by his Predecessor in Office; and, whether he had arrived at any decision as to the expediency or otherwise of enforcing such reduction?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONSir, I have very carefully considered in Council such representations as I have received on the subject, and have arrived at the decision that the resolution referred to, so far as it equalizes the salaries of the Puisne Judges of all the High Courts, should be enforced—that is to say, that the Puisne Judges hereafter appointed to the Calcutta High Court shall not in future receive larger salaries than the Puisne Judges of the Bombay and other High Courts. There is, however, a small question still unsettled as to the precise amount at which the salaries of all Puisne Judges are to be fixed.