§ MR. STEWART MACLIVERasked the Secretary of State for War, If his attention has been called to the working of Article 1,033 of the Royal Warrant, 1884, by which three classes of Noncommissioned Officers, after completing twenty-one years' service, may lose three pence per day pension, owing to the triennial mode of reckoning periods to the very letter; and, whether he could either substitute annual periods, or allow Non-Commissioned Officers to remain serving with the colours beyond the twenty-one years required to complete the triennial period?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONThe scale of pensions referred to, which has been in operation for nearly four years, was decided on after the fullest consideration; and I am not prepared to make any alteration in it in the direction suggested by the hon. Member.