§ MR. KING (Hull, Central)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India, in view of the fact that by Furlough Rules published to the Indian Army in November, 1868, the Indian Government laid down that officers of the Staff Corps should draw while on furlough 1034
half their Indian pay calculated at the rate of 2s. per rupee,andthat any officer leaving the British Service and joining the Staff Corps after July, 1868, would ipso facto become subject to the Rules of 1868";that in 1871 the Government altered the Furlough Rules, so that furlough pay was "calculated at the exchange of the day"; and that retrospective operation has been practically given to the Rule of 1871 by applying it to the case of officers previously joining, i.e., in 1869, 1870, from the British Army who have not signified assent to any later set of Furlough Rules than those of 1868, whether the Secretary of State will give directions that officers who joined the Staff Corps under the Rules of 1868 and have elected to remain under them shall have their furlough pay at the rate of 2s. to the rupee as promised them on joining?
*THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. CURZON,) Lancashire, SouthportThe Secretary of State has nothing to add to the answer which was given to a similar question on the 19th March, 1891. The matter has been repeatedly decided by successive Secretaries of State in Council, and as no new facts have been adduced, the Secretary of State does not consider that he would be warranted in disturbing their decision.