§ COLONEL NOLAN (Galway, N.)asked the Secretary of State for War, If the officers of the Commissary, Ordnance, and Chaplains' Departments, after five years' service with the honorary or relative rank of major, receive the honorary or relative rank of lieutenant-colonel; and, if he will consider the desirability of extending the same privilege to medical officers?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)Uuder a new Warrant for the Commissariat, rank will depend upon establishment. Chaplains are few in number, and enter the Service comparatively late in life. Their status affects their allowances; but they are satisfied with their ecclesiastical title. It is true that surgeons-major serve with the allowances of major for eight years; but that is because their advent to those allowances was advanced three years. Relative rank does not now exist.