§ MR. MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India—(1) whether the Resolution of the Government of India, dated 22nd June, 1895, alters the 74 leave rules of Indian Uncovenanted Civil Servants, in accordance with the ruling of the Secretary of State's Dispatch No. 188, dated 21st September 1893, on a review of the whole subject; (2) whether the concessions to these officers, all of which are granted in the first paragraph of the Resolution, can only be enjoyed by any officer on condition of his consenting to come under the serious disabilities imposed in a subsequent paragraph; (3) whether he is aware that in many cases the disabilities authorised in that paragraph more than neutralise the concessions of the first paragraph, and actually diminish the amount of furlough to which the uncovenanted officers concerned were formerly entitled; (4) whether he can state the grounds on which these disabilities were imposed; (5) and, whether he will move the Government of India to amend the rules so as to afford the relief recommended by the Select Committee of the House of Commons in 1890?
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe answer to the first question is in the affirmative; to the second and third, that it is possible that some of the officers would not benefit by accepting the new concession. To the fourth, that no new disabilities have been imposed. As stated in my reply to the hon. Member for the Faversham Division on the 21st May, the rules must be accepted as a whole. To the fifth, that very considerable relief has been given to the "uncovenanted" servants since 1890 in the matter of leave. I cannot admit that the recommendations of the Select Committee have not had justice done to them.