§ Colonel ALEXANDERasked the Secretary of State for India, Whether he will make Clauses 198 and 201 of the Royal Warrant applicable to Regiments serving in India, with a view to enable Quartermasters of those Regiments to obtain the advantages to which Quartermasters serving elsewhere are entitled; and, if he will state the reason why Quartermasters serving in India, who hold the rank of Captain, do not receive the allowances always granted in India to officers of that rank?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON, in reply, said, that, so far as their English pay was concerned, Quartermasters of regiments serving in India came under the conditions and rates of the Royal Warrant referred to in the Question. With respect to their Indian pay and allowances, the Government of India would be addressed in view of their reporting on the subject of the hon. and gallant Member's Question; but he had to observe that the rank held by Quartermasters serving in India, as elsewhere, was honorary and relative only, and did not, therefore, necessarily carry with it the pay and allowances of substantive rank.