§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Under Secretary of State for India, To state the nature and extent of information which the India Office Records can supply in regard to the amount paid in bounties to induce men of the European garrison of India to volunteer to remain in India, and the rates of bounty paid, the annual cost and number of men who have volunteered from the different branches of the service in each year from 1869–70 to latest year?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSThe India Office Records do not afford any means of giving the information required; but I shall be glad to furnish my hon. and gallant Friend with Papers showing the cost and effect of the special grant of bounty during the last 18 months.