§ COLONEL HUGHES-HALLETT (Rochester)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he will take into consideration the case of brigade surgeons on the Medical Staff in India, having regard to the severe examinations they have to pass for their promotion, with a view to placing them, as was contemplated by the Royal Warrant of 2nd 15 December 1879, on the same footing as brigade-surgeons in all other parts of Her Majesty's Dominions, as regards pay, position, and pension, instead of allowing them to remain, as at present in India, on the same pay after 25 and 30 years' service as surgeons-major, and subject at times to routine duties under medical officers of the latter rank who may be their juniors?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)(who replied) said: When the Royal Warrant created the rank of brigade-surgeon in 1879 the Secretary of State for India declined to allow any increased expenditure to be cast on the Revenues of India by reason of that Warrant, and the present Secretary of State adheres to that determination.