§ CAPTAIN NAYLOR-LEYLANDI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the whole or any portion of a Royal Warrant is now in force under which soldiers who completed 12 years' service about the period of the Crimean War were entitled to a deferred pension upon attaining the age of 50; and whether such a pension is now given to those who joined under those conditions of service?
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN,) Stirling, &c.The Regulation alluded to was cancelled by the Royal Warrant of July 23, 1864, but it remains in force for all who enlisted before that date, and between 400 and 500 men annually make good their claims to deferred pension under it.