§ MR. A. O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the note appended to Vote 20 345 of Class 3 of the Civil Service Estimates, to the effect that the post of visiting medical officer of Maryborough Prison is to be abolished on vacancy, may be accepted as correct; and whether, if the post is not abolished, it is to be kept for soma particular person or will be open for the appointment of the best qualified candidate?
§ MR. HANBURYThe note to which the honourable Member refers was added to the Estimate in connection with a revision of the salary of the resident medical officer at Maryborough Prison in 1896. That officer's salary was sanctioned by the Treasury on condition that the office, of visiting physician should be abolished on a vacancy, and that the resident medical officer should then be required to undertake whatever extra duty there might be. I am not aware of any intention to depart from that arrangement.