SIR HENRY FLETCHERasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether 226 those officers, now Majors, who entered the service from the Militia after the age of twenty will be allowed to remain in their regiments, or on the list of the Army until the age of fifty, the same as Majors who purchased their companies?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONSir, the Question is not quite fairly stated, for it is not all majors who purchased their companies who are allowed to serve till the age of 50, but only those who became majors not later than the 1st of July, 1881. The Royal Warrant does not extend the same privilege to majors who came from the Militia, unless they were captains before purchase was abolished in 1871.