§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, referring to the Return for the year ended 31st March, 1898, of the Army and Navy officers permitted under Rule 2 of the Regulations drawn up under Section 6 of the Superannuation Act of 1887 to hold civil employment of profit under the public Departments, he is aware that owing to a deduction of 60 per cent. the Director of Transports, pages 18 and 19, Case 13, is serving for £400 a year, while his assistant has 50 per cent. deducted and is serving for a salary exactly the same as his chief; and whether he can explain why the offices of Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, pages 2 and 3, Case 8, and Keeper of the Regalia, pages 10 and 11, Case 7, are exempt from deductions.
§ MR. HANBURYThe Director of Transports is not serving for £400 a year. His salary is £1,000, and so long 276 as he holds the office he is not entitled to retired pay in addition. The salary attached to the post of Assistant Director. of Transports is not £400, but £700 to, £800 a year, and no deduction is made either of 50 per cent. or any other amount. The cases referred to in the second paragraph are explained in the last column of the Return. Appointments in Her Majesty's Household are exempted from the usual deduction.