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Return ordered—
Showing, by Departments, the number of clerks or permanent messengers in the Civil Service, or park or lodge keepers under the Office of Works, the Office of Woods and Forests, or the Board of Green Cloth, appointed since the 1st day of September, 1887, and the number of such clerks, permanent messengers, park or lodge keepers, who, prior to appointment, served in the Navy, Army, or Royal Marines, in accordance with the recommendation of the Select Committee appointed in 1877 'to inquire how far it was practicable that Soldiers, sailors, and Marines, who had meritoriously served their Country, should be employed in such Civil Departments of the public service as they may be found fitted for'(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 341, of Session. 1887.")—(Mr. Howard Vincent.)