§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick's)J. beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the fact that the salaries received by the Second Class of the old staff of the Registry of Deeds (Ireland) are, owing to the classification in force at the time of their appointment, less, service for service, than those enjoyed by members of any other equally important Department under the control of the Treasury, some improvement, personal to its existing members, might be made in the position of the Second Class, without permanently or materially increasing the Departmental Estimate?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY "(Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamThe duties of these clerks are duties proper to the Second Division, and will hereafter be performed by clerks of that Division. The scale of the Second Class is better than that of the Second Division, and, service for service, their salaries are higher. I cannot, therefore, admit the assumption on which this question rests, nor can I undertake to improve the position of existing members of the Second Class.