§ MR. GROVE (West Ham, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the annual allowances of money, granted in addition to salary for special work, to abstractors and clerks in the Customs Statistical Department, and to second officers at certain of the Customs out ports, are in accordance with the terms of the Orders in Council, which abolished duty pay; and, if not, whether such allowances can properly be granted in other Departments of the Service?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamThere is no analogy between the allowances referred to (which are of the nature of allowances for acting in a superintending capacity) and the duty pay forbidden in the cases of certain classes of Civil servants by the Orders in Council. There is no ground for extending the system of allowances in other branches of the Department or in other Departments.