§ SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if the bonus proposed by the Government and voted by Parliament to enable Volunteer corps to adjust their financial positions has yet been paid; and if, in allocating it, care will be taken not to penalise regiments whose officers have made pecuniary sacrifices for the good of their corps, or whose affairs have been so economically administered as not to show the debts which some regiments have incurred, in the hope that they would one day or other be paid by a compassionate State or a public spirited individual?
§ * MR. BRODRICKThe issues are being made in all cases in which the finances of the corps are in a fairly satisfactory condition. In the case of those corps whose accounts show a deficiency unprovided for, arrangements are required, before the extra capitation is paid, which shall secure the deficiency being met within a reasonable period and shall prevent its recurrence.