§ MR. KIMBER (Wandsworth)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in the case of the few Civil Service writers over 50 years of age who have been employed in the superior capacity of clerks in previous Censuses, the Government would allow such service to reckon for promotion to the abstractor class, in the same manner that naval and military service was regarded by the Government for the promotion of writers over 50 years of age who have rendered 317 some previous service in the Army and Navy?
§ *THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamAs I stated yesterday, the Treasury and the Civil Service Commissioners are now considering the question whether the limit of 50 years of age should remain absolute in the case of copyists other than those who have rendered previous naval or military service.