§ SIR WILLIAM WEDDERBURN, (Banffshire)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the Clerk of the Insolvency Court at Bombay is paid 328 by fees, which amount to between 3,000 and 4,000 rupees a month, and whether the present incumbent accepted the appointment subject to the understanding that the scale of his remuneration was likely to be revised; why the recommendation of the Finance Committee of 1886 that, looking to the amount of the work, the salary should be fixed at Rs.500 or Rs.600 per mensem, the fees to be credited to Government, was not acted upon; and, whether he will lay upon the Table the correspondence regarding the salary of this appointment between the Bombay Government, the Government of India, and the Secretary of State subsequently to the year 1895?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, Middlesex, Ealing)(1) The Clerk of the Insolvency Court at Bombay is paid by fees, the average amount of which is a little over Rs. 3,000 a month, out of which he meets certain charges for establishment. It is apparently the case that the present incumbent accepted the appointment (in 1875)
subject to any revision of the remuneration that might be ordered by competent authority.(2) The recommendation of the Finance Committee for the salary to be fixed at Rs.500 or Rs.600 a month, was coupled with a further recommendation that the duties, of the post should be revised and made more important, and a higher salary attached to it, by an Insolvency Bill which was then under consideration. This, measure has been under consideration for many years, but it has recently been decided not to proceed further with it; and I now propose to communicate with the Government of India on the subject. (3) The correspondence on this subject, though very lengthy, is still incomplete, and I cannot undertake to present it.