§ MR. GILHOOLYI beg to ask the Postmaster General what amount of compensation postal telegraph clerks in the established list are entitled to on retiring according to class service and 1064 salary, who from the nature of their duties fear a continuance in the service would impair their health; what number of years' service entitles them to compensation; whether being employed as postal assistants before being established clerks would count as part of the time served in the established service; how many years' service must a telegraph clerk have to entitle him to two-thirds of his present salary; and if he will cause a scale both of pension and compensation to be drawn up and issued to the different offices, in order that clerks may know what their future prospects are?
§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSONUnder the Superannuation Act, telegraphists, like other Civil servants, are entitled to either pension or gratuity, according as they have served more or less than ten years. The title arises, however, only on the production of a medical certificate to the effect, that, owing to infirmity, either mental or bodily, they are no longer fit to discharge the duties of their situations. The gratuity is ordinarily calculated at the rate of one month's pay for each year of service, and the pension at the rate of 1-60th of the salary for each year of service up to a maximum of 40-60ths on having served 40 years. No. Unestablished service would not be reckoned. The Superannuation Act, 1859, gives full information on the subject of the last paragraph.