§ BARON HENRY DE WORMSasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Treasury has received a Memorial from certain ex-redundant clerks in the Customs pointing out that they were induced to accept appointments in the out-door department, involving an average additional daily attendance of over twenty-five per cent with only a trifling and temporary increase of salary, by the issue of a classification holding out improved prospects of promotion immediately before the appointments were offered to them; whether it is the fact that the Board of Customs have now decided to reduce the number of surveyors by compelling the First Class examining officers to do the work hitherto clone by clerical surveyors, thereby withdrawing from the Memorialists their chief inducement to accept the obligation of increased daily attendance; and, whether, under these circumstances, reasonable compensation will be granted to them for the withdrawal of those prospects; and, if not, whether the Board of Customs will continue to exact the additional labour while withdrawing the inducement which led the Memorialists to accept it?
§ MR. COURTNEY, in reply, said, the matter was still under the consideration of the Treasury.