§ COLONEL HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he will take steps to have communicated to all Commanding Officers of Volunteers the Judgment pronounced on the 9th instant by the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, in the case of Colonel Pearson against he Holborn Union Assessment Committee, that the Volunteer Force are the servants of the Crown in the same sense as the Regular Army and the Militia, and property occupied for Volunteer purposes exclusively is occupation for military purposes, and as such exempt from rates?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN,) Stirling, &c.I have no report of this case more authoritative than appears in the public Press; and that is equally open to the Commanding Officers of Volunteer Corps, who must draw their own conclusions from it.